Feb 09 - A Hazy Shade of Winter

[marathondan]

I meditated upon the Word of Hal again last night. Apparently the slow-down approach is called the Myers Pace Table, and goes like this:

Miles 0-12 completed in 3.756% of finish time
Miles 12-18 completed in 3.8086% of finish time
Miles 18-23 completed in 3.8725% of finish time
Miles 23-26.2 completed in 3.95% of finish time

So for a 3:55 finish I would be looking at:

0-12: 8:50 MM
12-18: 8:57 MM
18-23: 9:06 MM
23-26.2: 9:17 MM

That might just sound like a plan. I'm still tempted to start faster and finish slower, but that's a strategy recommended by almost no-one.

7 mile tempo run late last night in fairly heavy rain. Well, it felt like tempo, but the watch said more like HM race pace. Still, I don't believe in going all-out during training. I guess that's why I don't fulfil the marathon times calculated by the race predictors.

This was sandwiched between some major glosswork in one bedroom and half an hour of baby-settling in another. I fell into bed about 5.5 hours before the alarm was due.