Fresno Half Marathon

I completed the Fresno Half Marathon on November 6th. This year, I took my off season in October after completing my A race in September, P2P100. So doing this race signifies the start of my next training phase on a 12 week marathon training plan for the Surf City Marathon. Using a pace chart, its a good check what holding 7's for a half marathon means when you pace threshold intervals, tempo, long runs and EZ days on the chart so I'll do the right pace on the right days for my training plan. Here's some training workouts my known baseline pace per Fresno now projects me for:

• Tempo: 6 mi @ 7
• Threshold: 6 x 1 mi repeats @ 6:29 pace
• Long Run: 12 mi 8 min long pace, last 6 miles new 6:47 goal pace
• EZ: 8 mi 8:30 pace

By training pace correctly, I'll adapt my ability to handle these same workouts consistently over 3 weeks in November. I'll take the 4th week as a recovery week. Then in December, I'll wrench up the pace subtracting 5 seconds from November's training pace to use on these same run's. At the end of December, I'll take the 4th week as a recovery week. Then in January, I'll wrench up the pace subtracting 5 seconds from December's training place to use on these same run's. At the end of January, I'll take the 4th week as a recovery week. The first week in February is Taper and time to race 26.2 My training is like clockwork and I'll see what perfecting my pace in training can do. I'm going to train like a machine using that 3 weeks on 1 week off pattern wrenching it up across these blocks just by 5 seconds so just as I adapt to my training pace I'll recover then introduce more stress in a logical manner. Dedicating yourself to a pace acclimatizes the mind and body to running that pace and adapting to it in training so on race day you can trust your training has brought you a pace you can now execute.