Marathon Quotes

Mike Fanelli, running club coach:

"I tell our runners to divide the race into thirds. Run the first part with your head, the middle part with your personality, and the last part with your heart."

Jacqueline Gareau, 1980 Boston Marathon champ:

"The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed."

Unknown:

"At mile 20, I thought I was dead. At mile 22, I wished I was dead. At mile 24, I knew I was dead. At mile 26.2, I realized I had become too tough to kill."

Don Kardong:

"No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes."

Scott Douglas:

"In the first half of the race, don't be an idiot. In the second half, don't be a wimp!"

Broke the 5k 20 min mark!

Today I ran my first 5k under 20 min, my official time was 19:47 or a 6:22 mile! The only training I have been doing was for a marathon, but this 5k provided the opportunity to skip a session at my conference for work to do something far more fun - run!

My time was good for third overall, second male and first in my age category, no medal, they gave out a blue water bottle for first in age category!

According to my distance time converter, it estimates that my marathon time should be around 3:09:27! Probably a bit lower than it would actually be, but much lower than my both my 3:30 goal and 3:15 hope! Keep running!

Bloomsday Results:

Official results are in for the Bloomsday 12K:

Tyler L Wallace
Finish Time: 0:53:24  Overall Place: 826 out of 47,841 (top 1.7%!) Ran with a pace of 7:09 per mile The average pace for 28-year-olds was 13:45
Placed 38th among 846 people the same age (top 4.5%) Placed 5th among 433 people from Moses Lake, WA (top 1.2%) Placed 551st among 37,819 people from Washington (top 1.5%) Placed 1st among 26 people with the same last name (top!!!) Placed 701st among 19,205 males (top 3.7%) Placed 29th out of 323 among 28-year-old males (top 8.9%) Placed 169th out of 2,152 people in your age group (top 7.8%)

It was a great run with great weather. The first mile was a bit slow weaving around the people, but it was lots of fun overall. I ran at a good pace and finished very strong! (and almost vomited twice after crossing the finish line!). Doomday hill was not as bad as people say it is, probably the worst part was seeing it coming! But once I was on it, not to bad. I was very happy with the run and it was only 24 seconds off my goal, which considering the slow first mile as I weaved around several thousand people, I can be happy with it!

My next race will be the spring fest 10K in Moses Lake! I hope to improve on my PR of 43:28! In the mean time, I'm taking a few days of recovery, then back on marathon training!

Ready for Bloomsday

Yesterday I ran 10 miles. It was the longest run since my half marathon when I hurt my foot (and still finished with a 7:12 mile!) It went great. My longer runs are now made up of 3 and 4 mile loops with a water station set up in my front yard that I pass each loop. The excitement right now though is not the 10 mile run that I did in 1:12:29 (a 7:14 mile), but my first bloomsday race is this weekend!

Bloomsday is an odd distance - 12K or 7.46 miles, but it is a race that (I'm told) every runner in the northwest must run. So I am signed up to run the race - along with 54,000 other runners! I am starting in the third wave (yellow) which I had to qualify for. I doubt this will be an annual race for me, but it is a race, like the marathon, that I will be excited to have in the "done it" list! My goal is to finish in under 53:00 or a 7:06 mile. Earlier this week I ran 5 miles at a 6:48 mile, so I'm optimistic. I found a race calculator that says I should finish right at 52:00 or a 6:57 mile, but that doesn't count doomsday hill which is a one mile hill towards the end of the run!

I will post once I have results from Sunday's run!