Cleveland Marathon 2009 Completed

Finished the Cleveland Marathon last week in 3 hours 51 min and 26 seconds (adjusted time, of course).

An improvement over last year's 3 hours 56 min and 46 seconds.

We'll see what the summer's training program can do to reduce the time

Results can be found at www.marathonguide.com/results/index.cfm

Akron Marathon Completed

Last week, I finished the Akron RoadRunner Marathon. Still to close to 4 hours. In the process, I managed to cramp up my calf, pull a hamstring and tore off a toenail. Still finsished.

Probably shouldn't do this, buy I think I'll run the Columbus Marathon on the 19th.

Cleveland Marathon Completed

I finished the Cleveland Marathon last week. It took me almost 4 hours. Now I know that it’s been 7 years since my last marathon, actually since my last road race. But I think the thing that really did me in was the ‘new’ training method I used for the past several years.
For the last 7 years, I have trained without speed work. No fartleks, no track work, no tempo runs.
Nothing.
I did run plenty of long runs and the only timing I used was to run for 1.5 hours, 2 hours, 2.5 hours with no regard to distance. Great for working off stress, but not so good for improving performance.
It all comes back to the notion of what gets measured, gets managed.
Time to get back to measurements and managing performance before hitting the Akron Marathon in September.