Today was the first day of my 2-week taper for the St George Marathon. I did a 2 mile warm up then ran 6 miles at race pace of 6:46 / mile at the local high school track. I like to to run in the morning but so does the local track team. So I try to get there by 6am so as not to bother them. They don't get there until 7:15am which is about the time that I generally finish.
Well, this morning I stepped out the door and it was raining cats and dogs. So I figured I'd wait a bit to see if it let up because certainly the track team wouldn't be running in the rain on a wet track. So about 7:15 it let up a bit so I drove back to the track, but there they were, running in the rain. Shucks!
So I drove back home and told myself that I'd come out and run in the afternoon. Well, I'm an early morning runner and its easy for me to get distracted during the day and not get in my run if I wait until the afternoon. But I did it so I'm pleased ;-).
Now, I'd really like to get some comments from you experts out there that have run the St George Marathon. I'm training for sub three hour marathon and would like to know what should be my splits. I was thinking of something like 1:33 for the first half and 1:27 for the 2nd half. What do you all think?
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