3:35 Here I come!!!

Some of you might remember that at the start of my training in February I posted here about running Yasso 800s. Bart Yasso of Runners World came up with a formula for predicting your readiness to run a certain time in a marathon. He says that if you can run ten 800s (a half mile or 2 laps around the track) at the time you want to finish the marathon in, then you are ready. So I set the goal for myself of running each of my ten in 3:35 (three minutes and thirty five seconds) since I want to finish the marathon in 3:35 (three hours and thirty five minutes). I started off running four with Coach BB and then when she left I kept increasing them on my own.

So this Wednesday was my grande finale, my chance to shine, my opportunity to prove to Bart Yasso that I can do his workout. No pressure though, just relax and enjoy them!

And BOOM! I did it! Only #2  and #4 were off and I'm not sweating those, one was by a second and the other one is clearly an outlier.

Split	Time	Distance	Avg Pace
1	3:33.5	0.50	7:07
2	3:41.6	0.50	7:22
3	3:33.2	0.50	7:06
4	3:36.1	0.50	7:12
5	3:33.6	0.50	7:06
6	3:33.9	0.50	7:06
7	3:34.7	0.50	7:08
8	3:31.2	0.50	7:02
9	3:35.6	0.50	7:10
10	3:32.8	0.50	7:04

So Bart Yasso believes I can run a 3:35 in Rio. Deep breath and...I KNOW I CAN RUN A 3:35 IN RIO! I'm adding that to my mental bank of positivity that is growing bigger and bigger. It's crazy to read my blog post from February and see how tentative I was about using 3:35 as my goal time. I wasn't totally sure that I could do ten of them and now I did. I feel good about that accomplishment.

In other Rio Marathon news, they released the altitude map of the course so we could see where the hills are. It looks like only 2 hills, neither of them higher than 20 meters and neither of them at the very end. Sweet!

Now if they would just tell us where the kit pickup is going to be, I'd feel a lot better about things!