Race Day Goals...

With a lot of runners getting close to race day, I was wondering what everyone's race day goals are. Mine are:

A) Sub 3:05
B) Sub 3:03
C) (Extreme Stretch Goal) Sub 3:00

Let's assume the weather, illness, etc., are out of the equation:

A) Finish
B) Don't finish last
C) PR (< 3:36:34)
D) < 3:35 (this would be BQ - 5 minutes for me)
E) <= 3:30 (this is my prime goal)

A: 4:29:xx
B: 4:35
C: 4:44:xx (would be a PR)
D: survive

One more week!

Hartford Oct 15

A: 3:15 (BQ)---Stretch
B: 3:19 - Ideal
C: 3:22 - Conservative
D: PR under 3:27:55 - all else fails!

Philly Nov. 20th

A) 3:25...which would be BQ-5 minutes and almost a 5 minute PR.
B) 3:30...BQ

Seth Harrison wrote:Philly Nov. 20th

A) 3:25...which would be BQ-5 minutes and almost a 5 minute PR.
B) 3:30...BQ

You better make it to Philly! No pressure though. LOL

JohnP wrote:Let's assume the weather, illness, etc., are out of the equation:

A) Finish
B) Don't finish last
C) PR (< 3:36:34)
D) < 3:35 (this would be BQ - 5 minutes for me)
E) <= 3:30 (this is my prime goal)

I love this list.

A) 3:05
B) 3:08
C) Doesn't freaking matter

1. First and foremost, actually finish the race by hook or by crook!



2. Don't turn my ankle, take any hard falls or step on a rattlesnake.

3. Finish under 9 hours

4. Finish in top 5 although this will largely be determined by who shows up on race night.

For NYC my goals are:



1.) Sub-2:45

2.) PR (sub-2:48)

3.) sub-2:50.

St. George in 5 days

A) Sub-4

B) PR (sub-4:04:52)

C) a finish, a medal, an 8th notch on the belt.

1. Run with my wife and not have her kill me by the end. Her PR is 4:53, but does not think she can break 5...she is saying a conservative 5:30. so I will "encourage" her for 5 hours +/- to beat her goal at the very least.

2. Finish healthy so I can consider a goal race in March

3. Do a marathon harrier hash or whatever (i.e. run in front of Julie and down a beer while I wait). She said this would be a fun idea.

My goals for NYC:



1. Finish under 4 hrs

2. Beat my time of 2005 (3:56)

3. Sub 3:45

4. Super secret possibly attainable goal 3:40

While I don't have a race on the schedule since I just ran mine last wkend, when I do run another marathon I am still going for

1. finish
2. 4:10 (PR)
3 4:05 (should be manageable with injury free training).

finish marathon



under 5 hours



beat 4:36 my previous PR



top secret goal 4:22

1. 2:29:59
2: PR (2:34:35)
3. Drown my miseries with beer.

1. 3:45
   
2. 3:45
   
3. 3:45
   

I'm a pacer...

Jim Lentz wrote:

1. 3:45
   
2. 3:45
   
3. 3:45
   

I'm a pacer...

Good goal!!

Hope finish my 20 miles early enough so that I can follow some of you, while watching EPL.

If I make the starting line. Chicago Bib #2016

1. 2:47:xx
2. sub 2:50
3: PR sub 2:57:17

Sub 3 marathon

Running the Loch Ness Marathon on Sunday - goals have been toned down quite a bit given that I missed a couple of months of training through injury...

Minimum: Get to the finish
Decent run: Better than my current slowest marathon (3:37.33)
Pretty satisfied: Sub-3:30
One of those days where everything goes my way: Sub-3:20
I'll need to settle up that bargain for my soul with the Devil afterwards: PR (better than 3:16.24)

A pretty wide range, I know, but it's hard to say what sort of shape I'm in given the length of time I wasn't able to run - my training runs over the last couple of weeks have been very solid (and surprisingly quick for the heart rate/effort), but I know that my relative lack of mileage will catch up with me if I'm too aggressive early on.

T Miller wrote:If I make the starting line. Chicago Bib #2016

1. 2:47:xx
2. sub 2:50
3: PR sub 2:57:17

Time for Jerry to HTFU or just quit.

Jerry wrote:

T Miller wrote:If I make the starting line. Chicago Bib #2016

1. 2:47:xx
2. sub 2:50
3: PR sub 2:57:17

Time for Jerry to HTFU or just quit.

That's right HTFU. Hey Jerry, It looks like I'm going to be traveling to Plano every 3 weeks for work.

T Miller wrote:

Jerry wrote:

T Miller wrote:If I make the starting line. Chicago Bib #2016

1. 2:47:xx
2. sub 2:50
3: PR sub 2:57:17

Time for Jerry to HTFU or just quit.

That's right HTFU. Hey Jerry, It looks like I'm going to be traveling to Plano every 3 weeks for work.

I will PM you my cell#. Let's hook up after Chicago so that I don't look too bad in case we do a run.