alfadriver wrote: And another one- if you are ok today, you didn't run hard enough.
i learned a lot in this race. i will have a much quicker time next year. :-)
i guess i might as well roll out my next goal: in 2016 i'm going to qualify for Boston, then run it in 2017, a few months after i turn 50. the BQ time for a 50YO male is 3hr 30min, so in the next three years i have to drop 3 minutes per mile.
AngryCorvair wrote:alfadriver wrote: And another one- if you are ok today, you didn't run hard enough.i learned a lot in this race. i will have a much quicker time next year. :-) i guess i might as well roll out my next goal: in 2016 i'm going to qualify for Boston, then run it in 2017, a few months after i turn 50. the BQ time for a 50YO male is 3hr 30min, so in the next three years i have to drop 3 minutes per mile.
I dreamed that once, too. But it appears that my body refuses to run past 18 miles without bad injury. If I could do a half marathon on 1:45, now that would be good for me. My PB is 1:58. And that was a long time ago (relatively speaking).
I wish you the best of luck!
So training starts next week? Each pound is worth quite a bit per mile. 
AngryCorvair wrote: when is your marathon?
I am running the half in Philly on the 17th of Nov. No plans to do the full until my wife wants to... which will probably be right after her first half 
Damnit you guys are making me want to do another one.
Guess I'll start a build thread soon.
My Marathon was 4:22. I really need to loose weight before the next one as I ran that one at 220lbs. I'd like to be under 200lbs for the next one.
My Boston Time is 3:05 for another 4 years so I'd have to cut 3 minutes per mile as well to get right at 7:00 miles.
alfadriver wrote: So training starts next week? Each pound is worth quite a bit per mile.
i'm down to 163# at 5'9". Probably not going to lose too many more lbs, so my speed increase will have to be from increasing speed.
A good friend of mine once said, "to go faster, you need to run faster."
Not sure how that is supposed to help, maybe just the simplicity of it is the helpful part. Guy is brutally fast, so I try and listen!
I am that same 5'9", down from 225 a few years ago, got to about 175 before I hit the weights again and now back over 190... I just need to make the weight work for my advantage.
did i ever mention that i ran this marathon to raise money to drill water wells in Zambia? Working with Team World Vision to make this happen. You can read about World Vision here, and if it's a cause you'd like to support, you can make a donation through AngryCorvair's fundraising page. i'm about $80 shy of my goal to raise $2,000. TWV says that $50 will provide clean drinking water for one person for their lifetime...
Hey, still standing when crossing the line! I'd be crawling or being dragged
In reply to AngryCorvair:
I haven't been on the board much recently, so I missed this initially.
Awesome to hear, AC. Successful transition to the dark side (running).
Super respectable time. Glad it went mostly well.
Congrats on your accomplishment! I think you were way low on calories. Way low. Try to shoot for around 300-400 per hour.
Congratulations!
PeterAK wrote: Congrats on your accomplishment! I think you were way low on calories. Way low. Try to shoot for around 300-400 per hour.
what do i do, push a shopping cart the whole way?
AngryCorvair wrote:PeterAK wrote: Congrats on your accomplishment! I think you were way low on calories. Way low. Try to shoot for around 300-400 per hour.what do i do, push a shopping cart the whole way?
Haha! Pretty much! Depends on the what they offer on course and what works for you. You can carry gels either as packs or in a flask on a belt to supplement what you can't get on course. Looks like they only had gel at mile 16 so yes, you really would have to carry lots of your own calories on that course or meet family / friends along the course for hand ups.
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