This last weekend I did a 34k training run. That may be the furthest I've ever run outside of an actual marathon. It was definitely almost as tough as running a marathon itself.
It got me thinking about past races and times. It occurred to me that I'd lost track of how many marathon's I've run. I had the feeling it was somewhere around 10, but I couldn't be sure.
After a bit of searching around the websites of the races I've run, it turns out that this upcoming Auckland marathon will be my 9th. For future reference, here are the races and times:
It got me thinking about past races and times. It occurred to me that I'd lost track of how many marathon's I've run. I had the feeling it was somewhere around 10, but I couldn't be sure.
After a bit of searching around the websites of the races I've run, it turns out that this upcoming Auckland marathon will be my 9th. For future reference, here are the races and times:
| Event | Time | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Grandma's Marathon 2002 | 3:48:11 | First Marathon with Craig, Pete, and Scott |
| Twin Cities Marathon 2003 | 3:59:54 | Ran by myself, beautiful weather. Breaking 4:00 in this race is what made me think I could just keep running without training. |
| Grandma's Marathon 2004 | 4:00:20 | Ran with Peter Akimoto. Stayed in the Clown House. I probably would have wimped out on this one if Peter hadn't been keen on driving up to Duluth on Friday night. |
| Twin Cities Marathon 2005 | 5:18:06 | Ran this one with some first timers from work. For the record, running slower is more painful that just running as fast as you can (To a point at least, the very first marathon, I was at the best fitness level, but in the worst shape at the starting line, and in the most pain afterwards.) |
| Auckland Marathon 2006 | 4:28:16 | First New Zealand Marathon. This one made me decide that I'd better get training again after all. |
| Rotorua Marathon 2007 | 4:51:10 | This one was brutal. Pouring rain at the start line, cold wind later. This is the only marathon where I thought for a while that I might not finish. |
| Auckland Marathon 2007 | 4:08:20 | I was in overall good shape for this one, but not the greatest running shape. I held the end together quite well, but just didn't have the leg muscles to finish under 4:00 |
| Rotorua Marathon 2008 | 4:07:03 | Much better than the last Rotorua, in fact the day was nearly perfect. Same story as Auckland 2007, good run, just couldn't pull in under 4:00 |
The last few months I've put in more running than any year since 2002. We'll see how that works out.
This weekend I'm running a half Marathon. "The Legend" named for Arthur Lydiard's training route in the Waitakere's. Looking at Arthur's training methods, they're nearly identical to what my old high school cross country coach used to use. I may have to study up on that again, I wouldn't mind seeing how close I can get to my 5k PR (18:03) one of these days in between marathons.
Anyway, here's The Legend, I'll post a race report afterwards:
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