Warm weather, pacing, speed, thoughts.

Sometimes one reads and doesnt register the meaning of the words. And I am not talking philosophy here.

We had bought Jeff Galloways book'Marathon' in Dec. and kept reading it off and on. Today I actually understood the meaning(I think!!) of the table with temps and how much each 5degrees brings down our speed. For each 5 degrees above 60degree F, speed drops by 30-40 sec. Which means that today our session of 14.6min mile at 72 degrees could have been at 13.6min mile.

Somewhere else I read that marathon training pace is always a min slower than marathon race pace, i.e. one can run the marathon at a min per mile faster than the LSD buoyed on by the enthusiasm of the crowd etc.

Keeping the above 2 factors in mind I actually might be able to run tha marathon at 12minmile. WOW!!

OK, I am just kidding. I didnt add the increase in speed if I lost 10 pounds by M-day.

No, all this is the result of getting too nervous about the looming M-Day date. ANd I dont know why I am feeling like this now, today was actually a good day and our speed on the shorter runs is increasing slowly.

Lets see, walk tomorrow.