Hello friends, it has been so long. I will start with a brief, yet stimulating update. Over the past few weeks, I have been on "winter break," so I have spent a significant amount of time in various locations over the great Commonwealth of Virginia. During break, I have been consistent with my training, which is going fairly well to this point. Today, I am beginning my second to last clinical of PT school, which marks approximately 4 months until graduation... oh how time flies.
Like I said, my training is going well. I have gotten back into the rhythm of running one or two workouts each week, as well as a weekend long run. The familiarity of marathon training is comforting. The workouts themselves have been successful in the sense that I am running them all at or below my intended paces without any difficulty. The problem lies, however, in the fact that the purpose of this training plan is to really work on maintaining the prescribed paces for my workouts, particularly the marathon pace runs.
Last Thursday, I did my first marathon pace workout (4 miles on the track). Long story short, I ended up with the same old problem that I usually encounter in these types of workouts: running too fast. By the end of the 4 miles, I ended up averaging 14 seconds per mile faster than race pace. In layman's terms, that is a recipe for implosion at mile 20. Or before. Or with 2 miles to go in a race that you are on pace to PR but you actually end up running the last 2 miles at approximately 12 minute pace. I'm not trying to do that. (Again).
Bottom line, I have to be doing a better job with my pacing on all of my runs -- normal training/recovery runs, speed workouts, and the marathon pace tempo workouts. The double edged sword is my Garmin, which allows me to monitor my current pace during my runs. Although this should be a valuable tool to keep myself in check, it also acts as an enabler to my running faster than I should be problem.
Discipline, my children, is the answer.
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