A big change in my training the last few months is I've been running the longer runs and some of the pace runs with Marianne, with whom I'll be running the Disney Marathon. We are well-matched for pace (she has been a bit faster than me on race day) and complement each other well - I tend to start slow and finish fast, and her tendency is to start fast and finish a little slower. So she speeds me up at the start and I speed her up at the end, and overall, we run faster together than alone.
Today, for example, we ran 16 on the course looping around Iron Rail Park in Wenham, a run a few months ago I would have done at slower than 9 minute miles. Today we did it at an 8:39 pace without pushing it too hard (it was not a pace run, after all):
1. 9:01
2. 8:33
3. 8:29
4. 8:39
5. 8:40
6. 8:44
7. 8:37
8. 8:42
9. 8:40
10. 8:37
11. 8:24
12. 8:35
13. 8:39
14. 8:47
15. 8:36
16. 8:42
The team training has definitely made me stronger - we'll see if there is a payoff in two weeks at the Harborside Half Marathon.
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