I was scheduled to run an 8 mile marathon pace run today but it didn't quite work out that way. Started off as normal with a nice easy warm up mile and then gently picked up the pace to marathon pace. After about two miles I noticed something was not quite right. I was laboring too hard at this pace. I decided to stop in for a sip of gatorade to see if that would help. Continued on for the next two miles at marathon pace and felt better for a bit but eventually the same result, couldn't maintain the pace. Stopped in for one more sip of gatorade and was able to complete one more mile at marathon pace and then decided to back it off. Heart rate was going higher than normal and body was laboring way too hard. So I ended up today with 5 miles at marathon pace (7:28/mile) and the rest of the miles at an easy pace. As I look back at yesterday I think my water intake was a bit less than normal and the slight dehydration may have had something to do with my problems. I know you can't be on your game every day so I will keep an eye on this issue over the next week and see how my performances are, especially with a 40 minute tempo run coming up next week, that will be a good guage on whether I had a bad day or something else is wrong.
Time: 8:05/mile | 