I recently ran san Diego rock and roll marathon on Sunday . Training was good, injury free. I followed Hal higdon intermediate advanced plan. Set out at a 6:52 pace to run a 3:00 marathon. I found a group and we were spot on every split until mile 16. Everyone's been there. The group slowly drifted away and I mumbled every curse word I knew under my breath. There was no more speed left in my legs. Im 30 y/old and this was my 11th marathon. I should know what I'm doing out the by now, guess not . PR: Boston 2011 3:09:20 .

I am in my fifth week of a sixteen week marathon plan. Today the plan called for a 5K race. I did not find a race in my area so I run 3 miles, technically 5k, by myself. I am wondering how this run would impact on my training or what results I can draw from this run. Is there any meaning to the results at this short phase to the training plan? I have followed this plan for years but always ignored the 5k race because I thought it was not important. I run the 3 miles a minute faster than my estimated marathon pace and it was somewhat hard perceived effort!

And it turns out I won in my battle with the bottle (and I'm not even alcoholic)(more in [url=http://snail-male.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-first-marathon-qualified-for-b... long version[/url])

This is a tale of what could of happened, what should of happened and what actually happened.

I thought some of you would like this since Boston is this weekend...

Tri Life Gear sat down and interviewed pro runner Seth Hutchinson of Charlottesville Virginia. Seth is running in this weekends Boston Marathon and is gunning for a sub 2:20. Check out the interview at http://trilifegear.com/about/ask-the-pros-pg59.htm

-W