A few months back I emailed Trey www.uphillrunning.com and asked what he thought about me running a half-marathon. As it turned out the timing worked out perfectly in my training schedule for Boston. So I was in !
After a great 75 degree day on Saturday, the weather forecast was for rain and 50 degrees for the 7:00 am start.
Robert and I had agreed to meet at 5:30 at the Chamblee MARTA Station. I never doubted that he would be there, but I was surprised when I get a text from him saying that he was running the 2 + miles from his house as warm up. Really?!?!
We got to the race in plenty of time and spent some time with Roberts friend from Back on my feet http://atlanta.backonmyfeet.org. They had several people running their first half or full marathons.
The rain held off except for a few sprinkles, and it was about 50 degrees, Perfect running weather.
I couldn't have been more pleased with my run today. I started out at about 10:18 per mile and kept building from there. Mile 13 was 8:48 which is VERY fast for this old fat guy!! Overall, the official time was 2:09:36 average pace 9:53/mi, easily a PR by 10 minutes. I am feeling good an confident going into my last heavy week of Boston training.
Total miles this week 50.1 that included a long run of 13.31 miles and a 6 mile interval workout. I got in one light weight work but missed both Yoga classes.
I weighed in at 173.0 which is up 1.6 pound since last week and 14.0 lbs since I started training for Boston.
My schedule this week is 49 miles with a long run on 21 miles.
Fundraising for Technology for Autism Now (TAN) is going strong at $4,760 and 95% of my goal. Thank you for all of your support. Here is the link to my fundraising page.
http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/eddibuck/boston-marathon
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