I wanna talk to you about LSD. I've never bought into running long and slow as a way to train for long and fast, but it could be that I never did enough mileage to consider it long. I ran 89 miles last week though and all 89 were slow. Not necessarily long, but certainly slow. And for those of you new to the typical Danny marathon training plan, I am usually around 20-30 miles/week in preparation for a marathon.
It will be an interesting experiment to see whether long slow distance can actually produce a good marathon. It didn't at Trinidad but I hadn't been at the higher mileage that long. All the excitement around the Olympic Marathon Trials definitely helped motivate me. I also started looking back at all the marathons that I've done, both racing and pacing. I have run all over the map both geographically as well as chronologically.
Someone had asked me how many marathons I had done and I couldn't come up with an answer so I decided to look it up. And while doing that I decided to create a little table with my finishing times and then average finishing times overall and then for just the ones I actually "raced".
It looks like I've done 37 marathons but I left out the snowshoe marathon I did as well as the two marathons during Ironman so I'm actually at a nice round 40 marathons. Not bad for someone who didn't start running until after college.
| Marathon | Time | Racing or Pacing? |
| Gansett Marathon(Exeter) | 2:47:45 | R |
| Buffalo Marathon | 2:48:21 | R |
| Hyannis Marathon | 2:49:01 | R |
| New Orleans Mardi Gras Marathon | 2:51:44 | R |
| Kiawah Island Marathon | 2:52:15 | R |
| Gansett Marathon | 2:52:46 | R |
| Marine Corps Marathon | 2:52:57 | R |
| Rock 'n' Roll Savannah Marathon | 2:54:21 | R |
| Knoxville Marathon | 2:54:24 | R |
| Cleveland Marathon | 2:58:11 | R |
| Pittsburgh Marathon | 2:58:34 | R |
| Rock 'n' Roll Raleigh Marathon | 2:58:38 | R |
| Vermont City Marathon | 2:58:49 | R |
| Ocean Drive Marathon | 3:01:41 | R |
| Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon | 3:02:21 | R |
| Trinidad Marathon | 3:03:41 | R |
| Boston Marathon | 3:07:49 | R |
| Manchester City Marathon | 3:08:41 | R |
| Adirondack Marathon | 3:10:00 | R |
| Jackson Hole Marathon | 3:18:45 | R |
| Maine Marathon | 3:19:24 | R |
| Cape Cod Marathon | 3:20:48 | R |
| Bay State Marathon | 3:21:23 | R |
| Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon | 3:21:34 | R |
| Breakers Marathon | 3:25:30 | R |
| Vermont City Marathon | 3:26:05 | R |
| Suriname Marathon | 3:30:26 | R |
| Manchester City Marathon | 3:33:18 | R |
| Boston Marathon | 3:34:44 | R |
| Rockford Marathon | 3:42:41 | P |
| Mississippi Blues Marathon | 3:46:35 | P |
| Delaware Marathon | 3:54:38 | P |
| Mayor's Marathon | 4:26:31 | R |
| Roxbury Marathon | 4:33:23 | P |
| Hyannis Marathon | 4:44:46 | P |
| Bear Brook Trail Marathon | 5:03:41 | P |
| Odyssey Trail Marathon | 6:08:11 | P |
| Average Marathon Pace | 3:25:31 | |
| Average Pace After Eliminating Pacing | 3:07:02 |
So on March 20th, I will be competing in my 41st marathon. Almost every "good" race I have done has been in cool temps, with the exception of Knoxville. French Guiana is unlikely to be cool but with a 6am start I'm hoping for at least cool(ish) temps. Hopefully it's a good one:)
Until Next Time,
Danny
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