Wrek's Journal

[Wrekcut]

Starting this over from STL.

Ran a little over 6 miles today. Kept my pace of 7 minutes a mile which makes things look a little bit better for the marathon time I shooting for.

[rabb]

you are an animal with the running, my God

[RayRay]

Yeah no joke that's a great pace man. What is goal pace for a marathon since it's something I'll never ever ever need to use.

[Jammer]

In my mind I look at this and just chalk it up that Wreck is doing my running for me too. Seriously, awesome distance man!

[Wrekcut]

To qualify for the Boston Marathon you need your pace to be faster than 7 minutes and 15 seconds.

Right now I can hold my pace at around that for the first 14-15 miles, after that I start having energy issues. Still trying to work that out.

[Elwood]

awesome job wrek. I hope you make it to the marathon and do well. We'll all be pulling for ya!

[rabb]

I think we need to get him a TG shirt for the marathon

[Elwood]

I think we need to get him a TG shirt for the marathon

that would be cool.

[Wrekcut]

8 miles today. Wasn't bad, but treadmill runs bore me to tears.

[Wrekcut]

It's been a busy weekend. I was supposed to run 20 miles yesterday, But was gone all day so I had to push my run to today.

Just as busy today so I got up waaaayyyyy too early and went running. I ended up running 5 miles in 34:38.

Motivation as usual is my biggest issue lately. I need to find some new courses to run so I stay interested. Not happy about not doing a complete run this morning, but not enough to make me go do the rest.

[Wrekcut]

4 miles - 26 min 33 sec. Pace of 6min 37 sec a mile. My pace is improving finally. Finally over that wall I have been fighting for what seems like months.

[Wrekcut]

6 miles this morning in 40 min 29 sec. A pace of 6 min 43 sec a mile.

Last mile and a half started to be a struggle at the pace I was doing. Started to feel like I was running out of energy. I am not used to that feeling on the runs that are under 90 minutes. I will have to start taking my energy gels and drinks with me on all runs if I continue with this pace.

[Elwood]

6 miles this morning in 40 min 29 sec. A pace of 6 min 43 sec a mile.

Last mile and a half started to be a struggle at the pace I was doing. Started to feel like I was running out of energy. I am not used to that feeling on the runs that are under 90 minutes. I will have to start taking my energy gels and drinks with me on all runs if I continue with this pace.

That's a fast pace man....good job. do the energy gels and drinks make a big difference when you feel like you're running out of energy?

[Wrekcut]

I am not completely satisfied with the energy gels such as GOO. They don't give me enough energy, they just seem to slow down the loss. I am going to be ordering a couple new drink mixes to try that are supposedly very good to help maintain energy levels. I will let you know how they are after I try them out.

The big problem is burning more calories than I have in the tank. So starting off with plenty in the tank and then trying to maintain a tank level with drink mixes and goo is what I am trying to do.

[Elwood]

yeah, let me know how that works out.