Race Report: Flying Too Close to the Sun at the Jersey City Marathon
The best laid plans of mice and men … aren’t worth crap if you don’t follow them.
You ever know something is a bad idea, and you go ahead and do it anyway?
That was me yesterday. I went out too aggressively in the Jersey City Marathon, and I paid the price in the final miles.
Jersey City Marathon Training Recap
You can read a more in depth summary of my training and my race plan here.
But in short, this training cycle had gone great. I put in tons of miles (~75 mpw average), logged some good long runs (2 x 20 miles, 4 x 18 miles), and hit some good workouts (threshold pace around 6:25–6:30/mi, marathon pace around 6:50–7:00/mi).
I’d gone into this training cycle thinking sub-3:00 was possible — but I knew it could be a stretch. In some cases, I didn’t have great feedback on paces because my workouts were in terribly windy weather — making them seem harder than they should have been.
