Day 16 - no sleep and I still ran

For all you ladies out there that have a snoring husbands, your not alone. I think I must of gotten a total of 2 hours sleep last night. And of course all I could think about was my run in the morning being dead tiered. I did however pro vale and actually I surprised myself and improved my time again this morning. I ran 4:01miles, 6.45 km in 39:30, avg pace 6:08/km and burned 552 cal. I love beating my time to get it under the next even number. I know I will only get stronger and improve my time and for fun I decided to check out qualifying time for the Boston Marathon as these are the times to strive for. See below:

Age	Men	Women
18-34	3:10	3:40
35-39	3:15	3:45
40-44	3:20	3:50
45-49	3:30	4:00
50-54	3:35	4:05
55-59	3:45	4:15
60-64	4:00	4:30
65-69	4:15	4:45
70-74	4:30	5:00
75-79	4:45	5:15
80+	5:00	5:30

So looking at these times I know that being 31 years old I would have to run a marathon in 3hrs and 40mins. So then I wanted to know what pace I have to run at and compare it to what I'm running now. I found this great calculater that you can input your age and # of miles you are running a week and it will tell you the pace you will need to run at. Needless to say I have a ways to go.

How Much Speed Do I Need To Hit a Boston Qualifying Time?

Your Age:

Your Gender: Please Select M F

I run: miles a week

The slowest you can run and still qualify for the Boston Marathon is 3:40:59. This is a 8:25 per mile pace. If you train at 27 miles per week, you need to run a 5 K in 21:21 which is 6:52 per mile pace.


My #1 goal in training for this marathon is to run it and complete it with my Dad. Then goal #2 would be run it in under 4:15 so Dad can qualify for Boston one more time. I think that will be the ideal situation.

Anyway, I"m having fun learning about this sport of running that I thought I knew so much about. Like any sport should it be skiing, running or golf...we always have more to learn.