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!

Start Week 4

Today marked the start of week 4 with just under 15 weeks until the Moses Lake Marathon! Monday is almost always an easy 8:00 mile for 3 mile run. So far I have been able to stay on track with the running schedule! Today's run was great, three miles (especially at the 8:00/mile pace) is starting to feel real easy and short - very encouraging when the goal is 26.2 miles at a 7:30/mile pace! I have also joined 2 running groups which should be fun - one on Saturday mornings and another on Wednesday nights (which I won't be able to start for about 4 more weeks). This put an extra 6 miles on last Saturday's run which gave me 11 miles on Saturday! With only two weeks until Bloomsday I've rearranged my training (two posts back) to allow rest days in preparation and recovery from the 12K race. Short list of unrelated ramblings in today's blog, but that's the update!

First Marathon Scheduled: August 4

I am now officially done training for half-marathons. I am now officially training for a marathon. The Moses Lake Marathon is on August 4 (see http://www.mlmarathon.com/). I put my marathon training schedule below. The short of it is I do an easy 8:00/mile run on Monday and Friday. On Wednesday I do a medium 7:00/mile run. On Saturday I do a long run at marathon pace of 7:30/mile. Then on Tuesday and Thursday I will cross train by riding my bike to work. Of course Sunday is a day of rest!

The distance starts small - 15 miles for week one. Each week the distance increases slightly until I'm consistently running 30-40 miles per week. Three weeks before the marathon is the famous 20 mile run. Then taper for three weeks to the big day!

Goals? First goal is to finish the marathon! As for time, I would like to finish it in under 3:30:00. That would be an 8:00 mile. I'm hoping I can hit a 7:30 mile, but we will see! Let the training begin!

Marathon Training Schedule

Marathon Training

Easy = 8:00 mile, Medium = 7:00 mile, Long = 7:30 mile, Race = Fast as possible!

Dates	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Miles
4/1-4/7	Rest	Easy 3	Bike	Med 3	Bike	Easy 3	Long 6	15
4/8-4/14	Rest	Easy 3	Bike	Med 3	Bike	Easy 3	Long 7	16
4/15-4/21	Rest	Easy 3	Bike	Med 4	Bike	Easy 3	Long 5	15
4/22-4/28	Rest	Easy 3	Bike	Med 4	Bike	Easy 3	Long 9	19
4/29-5/5	Easy 3	Med 5	Easy 3	Long 10	Rest	Rest	Rest	21
5/6-5/12	Bloomsday	Rest	Rest	Easy 3	Med 5	Easy 3	Long 15K (9.3)	27.8
5/13-5/19	Rest	Easy 3	Bike	Med 6	Bike	Easy 3	Long 12	24
5/20-5/26	Rest	Easy 3	Bike	Long 13	Bike	Easy 4	10K SpringFest	26.2
5/27-6/2	Rest	Easy 3	Bike	Med 7	Bike	Easy 4	Long 10	24
6/3-6/9	Rest	Easy 3	Bike	Long 15	Bike	Easy 4	10K Run4Life	28.2
6/10-6/16	Rest	Easy 4	Bike	Long 16	Bike	Easy 4	15K EORiver	33.3
6/17-6/23	Rest	Easy 4	Bike	Med 8	Bike	Easy 5	Long 16	32.5
6/24-6/30	Rest	Easy 4	Bike	Med 9	Bike	Easy 5	Long 18	36
7/1-7/7	Rest	Easy 5	Bike	Med 9	Bike	Easy 5	Long 14	33
7/8-7/14	Rest	Easy 5	Bike	Med 10	Bike	Easy 5	Long 20	40
7/15-7/21	Rest	Easy 5	Bike	Med 8	Bike	Easy 5	Long 6	24.3
7/22-7/28	Rest	Easy 4	Bike	Med 6	Bike	Easy 4	Long 8	22
7/29-8/4	Rest	Easy 3	Bike	Easy 4	Bike	Easy 3	MARATHON!	10+26.2