Road Racer: Great race! It sounded like the wind made things tough in Atlantic City. Sounds like you would have been right on pace in better conditions.
VF Runner: Heck of a performance. The bad thing about the marathon is that if it goes badly, you have to wait a while to redo it. But with a good race, you can relish for months to come.
Goal Marathon: Rocket City, 2:35
Monday: Easy 3 and 7 mile runs
Tuesday: Easy 3 and 5.5 mile runs; took another easy day here because my legs were really beat up from the 20 miles with 4 mile tempo at the end on Sunday
Wednesday: 8 miles medium and 6 miles easy
Thursday: Easy 6.5 and 3.5 mile runs
Friday: Easy 3 miles; was going to do another run but the head xc coach wanted the team to play kickball since they hard a "really hard workout" the day before (the workout was some bleacher runs)
Saturday: 15 miles with half-marathon race in 1:10:37. I was nervous since this was my first half and planned on running 5:25-5:30 the whole way with a goal of sub 1:12. Got out quick in 5:19, and told myself to slow down but wasn't a good listener and ran 5:18, 5:18 5:19, 5:19, 5:17, 5:24, 5:26, 5:24, 5:23, 5:24, 5:32, 6:12 (1.1) for the rest of the miles. It was a frustrating race because after the first half mile, I had to run alone and after the first 5k, I never saw anyone ahead or behind me. This felt more like a solo time trial and once I hit 11 miles, I knew I would break 1:11, so I just wanted to be finished. The weather was near perfect (mid 40s) and I was happy with my time. After today I'm changing my goal to 2:30.
Sunday: Easy 5.5 and 4 mile runs
Week Total=70 miles. I start my more marathon-specific stuff now and am hoping for more mileage consistency. I haven't had more than two weeks in a row over 80 miles and also need to clean up my eating. A lot of my calories are from junk and I'm hoping that cleaning up my diet will drop another 5ish pounds, which will help me out.