Lisa Sabin’s - Running And Being

I’m stoked!  We couldn’t have asked for better weather.  It was 65 degrees and sunny.  I’ve been really worried about this race because it would be a good indicator of my fitness.  I was afraid that my pace would take a huge dive going from 10 miles to 15 miles.  I’ve lost about 3 pounds over the course of my training.  I noticed this last week that I didn’t feel really fresh.  Yesterday I drank a lot of water and increased my carbohydrate intake.  I feel like I’ve put in some good training, but I felt a little dehydrated and depleted of carbs.

My strategy for this race was to take more gel, so that my glycogen was topped off.  I started out with a new drink I found at Whole Foods called Recharge.  This drink doesn’t have any high fructose corn syrup.  I recently noticed that a lot of the sports drinks do.  I tossed a Nuun tablet, a calorie free electrolyte supplement into my recharge.  I took an accel gel at the start, and two more during the race.  My pace slowed a little on the way back of this out and back hilly course, but not too bad.  I ended up running a faster 10 mile than the 10 mile race a few weeks ago.  My half marathon time was faster than I’ve run since 2004.  I have confidence now that my training approach is working.  I’m looking forward to Boston now! 

Thanks Michelle and Andrea!  This series has been a lot of fun.  It’s great having these races scheduled into our training.  One more to go!

Workout:

• Type: Run
• Date: 02/23/2008
• Time: 09:00:00
• Total Time: 2:05:06.00
• Average Heart rate: 166
• Max Heart rate: 180
• Calories: 1098
• Distance: 15 miles
• Average Pace: 8:20.7/mile