Provo City Half Marathon 5-7-11
So here we are, a full two weeks after this race and I am Finally getting around to writing a recap. I know this has absolutely nothing to do with cycling, but I sometimes run too... As many of you know, I am planning on racing Ironman St George next May... in fact look at the top of this page and you will see a countdown to Ironman St George. To prepare myself for this event, I decided that running a marathon would be a good thing to do to see how my body could handle such a long distance. I signed up for the Provo City Marathon , then took a week or two off to let my legs recover from overworking them in January. I decided to bump down to the half marathon hoping that I could knock out a 1:45:00 smashing my best time of 1:53:18 by over eight minutes. Then I hired a coach. Lora has shown me a lot of the ins and outs of training smarter. One of those things is training at or just below lactate threshold, which is the point when lactic acid starts to build in the mu