8 Weeks to go for Nike Women's and Long Beach Marathons!

I was so happy to see old friends like Kerry S and Claire D yesterday on the Sunday run at the Berkeley Marina. Just as I arrived I saw a large group of women beginning their “warm-up” walk towards Aquatic Park. It was fun to run counter clockwise and greet the strong women that comprise the WOW team.

Sunday’s run was 60 minutes or more for fitness, 9 miles for the Nike Women’s Half Marathon, 11 miles for the San Jose Rock n Roll, and 20+ for the Marathoners.

Coach Stephanie and I again used the 9 minute run and 1 minute walk technique for 20 miles, and then walked an additional mile, and ran a final mile. You continue to learn more about running and yourself from each training run. Toward the end, (about mile 17) we were really looking forward to the one minute of walking. Most interesting of all was after walking mile 20-21 we felt as if we just couldn’t get our legs moving—a real snail’s pace. However, ½ mile later we were moving comfortably, though not at race pace. The good news was that we maintained the average pace suggested for our training.

Next week we cut back to 15 miles (10:28 pace) on Saturday, September 4 at Sawyer Camp.

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