Category: sf marathon
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Official results for the SF Marathon 2011: 3:33:23 finish. Overall rank: 578 out of 5,988 finishers Male: 511 out of 3,991 40-44 age group: 78 out of 572 Splits: 7.4 miles: 57:57 (7:50 pace) 13.1 miles: 1:42:58 (7:52 pace) 20 miles: 2:40:14 (8:01 pace) More soon. But was a good result. Learned a lot and…
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So, I have this relationship, you see. I love something and hate it all at the same time. What is it? It is Mountain Street. The street that leads to Chimney Peak, a local small mountain/foothill in my town. We’ve decided that the hills I was doing (11th St and just the first 1.5 miles…
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I’ve lived in the American South for my entire life. I’ve spent 44 summers here. I’ve melted away in each. Running, playing sports as a youth, or just being a kid on a hot Alabama day. To be honest with you, I’d rather live in a place where it is 58 degrees year round, with…
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Ok, time to wrap this series up with a brief post on the role of hills in the long run. As I’ve said before, one cannot expect to perform well on a hilly course by reducing hill training to one mid-week session. Hills must become a staple of the long run, especially as you practice…
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So, how does one train for a course with this kind of elevation? So, over 26. 2 miles the SF Marathon course has a net elevation gain of around 1,686 feet. And there are some pretty nice hills to cover as you try to maintain a Goal Marathon Pace (GMP). So the question remains: how…
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One of the first books I got when I started delving into training philosophy behind running, specifically the marathon, was “Run Faster, From the 5K to the Marathon: How to Be Your Own Best Coach,” by Brad Hudson with Matt Fitzgerald. My friend Megan recommended it, since she had used it as an aid in…
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Today marks the point on the calendar where the San Francisco Marathon is only 26 weeks away. Of course, “only” doesn’t sound proper for that many weeks unless you are a marathoner. Most marathon training cycles are 18-20 weeks long. So 26 doesn’t sound that far away for me. On July 31 sometime a little…
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