Olympic Marathon Team Has Been Decided!

The Olympic Marathon Trials were run last Sat.  Both the men and women ran in conjunction with the Houston Marathon.  It was a great race to watch and times were fast!  In the end these 3 men and 3 women are representing our country for this years summer Olympics in London!

Pictured from left to right:  Desiree Davila, Ryan Hall, Abdi Abdirahman, Shalane Flanagan, Meb Keflezighi, and Kara Goucher.

 Men's Results:

1 Meb Keflezighi 36 Mammoth Lakes, CA New York Athletic Club 2:09:08
2 Ryan Hall 29 Mammoth Lakes, CA Asics 2:09:30
3 Abdi Abdirahman 33 Tucson, AZ Nike 2:09:47

Women's Results:

1 Shalane Flanagan 30 Portland, OR Oregon TC Elite 2:25:38
2 Desiree Davila 28 Rochester Hills, MI Hansons 2:25:5
3 Kara Goucher 33 Portland, OR Oregon TC Elite 2:26:06

For full results visit:

http://houston2012.com/

Week 5 Goals, 14 Weeks until Botston!

Week 4 was rough!  Man am I glad that is over!!  I think I am finally over whatever sickness I had.  I had high hopes last Friday to finish out my weeks runs but that was just not realistic.  I ran 5 miles on Friday and felt extremely weak.  I took the weekend off to start fresh on Monday. 

Week 5 Goals - Get back on Track!

Jan 9th - 15th

Mon  - 7 miles

Tues - 14 miles

Wed - 5 miles

Thurs - 12 miles

Fri - 5 miles

Sat - 20 miles

Total weekly mileage - 63 miles

Week 4 Goals, 15 Weeks until Boston!

Week 3 goals were all met!  The week could not have went better!  More sleep on days I did not have to wake up early to run.  Had the best long run of my training (16 miles in 7:40 pace).  Weekly mileage was a little lower than goal but was up 6 miles from last week (55miles).  Introduced the first LT run, I was ok with the workout but not thrilled.  My LT run consisted of 9 miles with 4 miles at LT pace (10k- 1/2 marathon pace).  I ran 2 miles as a warmup and immediately started into my LT pace at 2 miles.  I hit 6:39 pace for my 4 LT miles.  (I will take it but it needs to be closer to 6:25).  Then 3 miles as a cool down at average pace (7:30ish).  Great Week!!

Week 4 - Disaster!!

As you can see by the date of this post that week 4 goals should have been posted 4 days ago.  I actually got sick on January 1st at night.  No, it is not due to the night before.  There were no hangovers here :)  It took me down pretty hard and I was either in my bed or on the couch for at least 36 hrs.  I have missed my runs Mon - Thurs this week.  I still have a lot of muscle fatigue from it but will get back to it today.  The only goal for week 4 at this point is to salvage the week the best I can.

Fri Jan 6 - 7 miles

Sat Jan 7 - 18 miles

Sun Jan 8 - 5 miles

Weekly mileage - 30