Since Racine, it seems like things are finally starting to quite down for me. Not training as intense, even thou I have 3 more important events.
Aug 18 - Race the Lake 90 mileer
Sept 29 - Apple Cider Century
Oct 27 - Marine Corp Marathon
The biking I'm not too concerned over, I know I can do the distance and my feel is just wanting to finish, so as long as I can keep a good steady pace I should be good. Stephanie I is going with me to Race the Lake and I know I'll be able to pace well with her. She's a bit faster but I'm ok with that. Rich is doing Apple Cider Century with me, along with Joe/Kathy, but I already know Joe/Kathy won't be riding the whole route, so I'm hoping Rich can keep me motivate. That will be my longest ride EVER.
Marine Corp is now the big task. With the fact that my running went to crap after my fall and during the last weeks of my training, I know I need to work on getting my pace back up there. Dave has me working on drills and pacing. Increasing my distance and hoping I snap back into it. So far so good. I'm able to run more and have pretty much dumped my walk intervals. For anything less than 6 miles, I'm doing 1 mile intervals at whatever pace Dave tells me (11-1130 or 1130-1145) with a 4 min easy run. I'm able to monitor and judge my pace and it seems to be working for me. I think I need to setup alerts on my Garmin thou, so that I don't go too slow on my 4 min intervals. But in yesterday's run I was able to maintain an 1126 for 5.38 miles. My goal for Marine Corp is to PR, just to be faster than a 5:31, but hoping to do a 5:15. It's flat coarse so I think I can do it, Baltimore was so hilly I walked more cuz of those hills than because I hit a wall or anything.
