Training Log Archive: mariaamaya

Great run!

Started on roads, and I think I went a little too quick. I kept your advice in mind, "run your own race" but it was still tough, I had tons of energy and being on the road made it easy to push.

Mentally this is how I felt:
-First 9 miles were not bad but I was very focused on slowing down. I knew it would be better if I could start speeding up later on.

-Miles 9 - 20 or so seemed to go by very quickly, again I wanted to be able to speed up around mile 21 or so and progressively continue to speed up.

-Felt like I started speeding up around mile 20 or so. I pushed hard at about mile 22 all the way to the end. Here are my mile splits and what I really did, important to note this was 3 loops:

Mile 1-8:55------- Mile 11-9:21------- Mile 21-9:28------- Mile 31-8:47
Mile 2-9:03------- Mile 12-9:23------- Mile 22-9:22
Mile 3-9:27------- Mile 13-9:51------- Mile 23-9:59
Mile 4-9:42------- Mile 14-9:50------- Mile 24-9:57
Mile 5-9:28------- Mile 15-9:39------- Mile 25-9:40
Mile 6-9:53------- Mile 16-10:27----- Mile 26-10:18
Mile 7-9:46------- Mile 17-9:47------- Mile 27-9:54
Mile 8-10:00----- Mile 18-10:08----- Mile 28-9:57
Mile 9-10:06----- Mile 19-10:10----- Mile 29-10:03
Mile 10-10:01--- Mile 20-10:00----- Mile 30-9:43

My cold was still with me, I was more phlemy than I would have liked.

It seemed like I stayed pretty consistent. The one good thing that I did that felt like it really helped me was that I took your advice and I ate, ate, ate and drank, drank, drank.

At a couple points, I felt like I had eaten too much but I knew that you thought that would be good. It definitely helped! The goos were the best thing, I knew they would provide good energy. I don't really like them and don't use them on training runs, but they are so full of energy, I can withstand them on race day. At each of the aid stations I ate bananas - tried to keep it natural. I also had my chocolate zone bar, which I love, it doesn't have great calories but good calories. I did the goos at the beginning of each new loop, I probably could have done more, but throughout the whole race I never felt hungry, not until the last 2 miles, which surprised me.

Garmin said I burned 2777 calories, according to my calculations, I think I ate the following, 1020 calories, about 205 calories per hour (prob. not enough, does what I ate before I started count?):

Zone bar – 190
Apple Hammer Gel – 90
Espresso Gel – 90
Banana - 200
Sports Bean - 100
Gatorade - 350

I also ate a Zone bar (190 cal) just before the start... and a donut (BAD!).

I know you said not to count the drink calories but I did only because I didn't really plan my nutrition, I went with how I felt.

So, all in all the nutrition made a big difference on this race. I feel like I still have a ways to go as far as training. I want to feel like I did much better but this was also a COMPLETELY flat race, so it's hard to feel really great about it. I have to wonder if had I been on that crazy Watchung course from January, how much better I would have done... don't know. I also know that I am coming off of a crazy overseas trip, a cold and too much partying last weekend. Well, I can only improve from here!

Short run, nice, easy.

Good easy run, slow relaxing, felt like I had much more energy.

Finally felt a little better on today's run, although still a little fatigued.

What a struggle, felt like I was slogging through thick, heavy mud. Did a little bit of hills on this.