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Week in Review – 10/12 to 10/18

Des Moines Marathon

10/12 – 5.5 miles
10/13 – 10 miles
10/14 – 8 miles @ 6:43 (marathon race pace)
10/15 – 18 miles with 15 mins @ 6:14, 5 min recovery, 15 mins @ 6:19
10/16 – Off
10/17 – 12 miles @ 7:16 pace + 2 miles in VFF
10/18 – 8 miles @ 2 miles in VFF

Total 65.5 Miles

* First week of the taper
* Train stops Des Moines Marathon winner
* An Honorable Run book review in Boulder Camera
* Brock Quimby opening up another Boulder Running Company in Greenwood Village
* Brandon Fuller is going to Boston
* Congrats to my arch rival and best friend Mark Thompson on his 2:51:21 at the Des Moines Marathon yesterday. I now have to run a 2:51:20 at NYC.
* Denver Marathon finally gave out tech shirts, nice work.
* Denver Marathon also had timely results and it was great to see the track runner feature on the web page. However, it would be nice if they added the text message alerts. While spectating at Denver Marathon, I was receiving regular updates on the Des Moines Marathon with regards to my friend Mark, three split points and expected finish time. The Des Moines Marathon is smaller than Denver, thus you would think Chrontrack would have this capability.
* Running Scream Scram 5k on Friday, will be pushing a stroller and battling Brandon Fuller sans stroller! The best part about Scream Scram is the 6pm evening start time on a crisp fall day, reminds me of high school CC. I ran a 21:52 last year and that was starting at the back of the crowd and having to stop twice to run back and grab my daughters witch hat. So I’ll be gunning for a slightly faster time this year, but not racing.
* Timing Shake, Rattle and Run 5k on Saturday.
* Plan on running Racing with the Stars 5k on Sunday, not racing though, probably run marathon race pace.

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5 Responses to “Week in Review – 10/12 to 10/18”

  1. Speaking of DM,

    What was with a split at 8.2 miles? Kind of an odd distance and doesn’t really provide too much info.

    They also have to do something about the start if they are planning on twice the number of people.

  2. Matt,

    I agree, I assume they had a relay point there, the one in City Park? But normally a marathon has splits at 10k, half and 25k. At least they had splits this year, that’s an improvement.

  3. Nah, it was just outside of City Park on 17th. (I think about 1.2 miles past the first exchange.)

    They also got the photos up very quickly as well.

  4. The showdown in Wash Park is on! That is if I can see through my mask well enough to find the course as the sun sets.

  5. Thanks for the props, buddy. And thanks for raising the bar again at NYC.

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