10 miler

OMG what am I thinking? Today I ran a 10 miler and in 7 days I'm doing my first marathon. I must be crazy....wait don't anybody answer that. I'm not crazy, at least in the fact that I don't do the same thing over and over expecting different results. I am crazy when it comes to crossfit, crossfit endurance and this chick named Lisa (but that is another story).

So I went out today for a long slow cruise. Well that was how I had planned it. I ended up doing 10 miles at a pace of 7:40 for a time of 1:16:18. If only I could keep that pace for the marathon. That is not the plan though. I'm hoping to do well on this first marathon but there are some unknowns. Such as I have never ran further than 13.1 miles. So my plan is to just get out there and maintain an 8:00 pace. That would give me a 3:30:00 finish time.

I do have a few goals for the this marathon.

1 - Have fun and enjoy the day
2 - Finish the race
3 - Evaluate my training plan
4 - Qualify for Boston 2011 (requires a 3:30:00 or better run)

I know that some of you might be thinking that I've never ran beyond 13.1 miles and 10 miles is my longest run since November 14. But I'll bet that very few of the long distance runners do crossfit to supplement their training. Nothing quite like 200 squats to get your legs attention, plus 200 squats will give you the burn of a half marathon in about 5 minutes. I love this stuff and next Sunday I'm going to put it to the test.