[Liam3494]

Nettie -<br><br>
What level do you feel your trainig is at right now. With aonly a couple of weeks to go, as Tigger says, there is little to be added to your training that can help tremendously, but... mentally, if you are capable of running 11 minute pace, you can run a half inside 2:30, in fact, well inside.<br><br>
Let me know what sort of mileage you are doing, and how you are running overall, not just on the 12 miler you did.<br><br>
You have 13 weeks to get it right for Philly and I hope you will be running well there - treat this as a building block/stepping stone, and you'll be fine.<br><br>
Liam

 

[Liam3494]

Nettie -<br><br>
I'll be honest and say I'm not surprised your marathons were the times they were as you were clearly short on mileage. You cannot really substitute getting miles into your legs, and whilst the half is obviously shorter, there is a similar need to get those legs turning over. I'm not an expert on Higdon, and would need to look up his plans, but as we have already all been saying, it's too late to do much now - But that's not to say we can't start to make groundwork plans for Philly and your next Marathon - It's still 13 weeks away, and with your running at present, you can look to get that time down to the 5 hour mark - That's a consistant pace of 11:30 or slightly under.<br><br>
If you can run this upcoming half at 11:20 pace, and KEEP at that pace, that will be Good Racing, given your levels of fitness, and taking into account the injury. Lets re-assess your goals after this 1/2.<br><br>
Hope this helps,<br><br>
Liam