Copenhagen Marathon 2008

I finally went and bought a memory card reader and was able to get the pictures loaded onto Picasa. Ragnar was my running partner during the training and on the marathon. I had written about my result last year in another post. I completed the marathon in 4:08:00, my running partner on the other hand did much better he finished in 3:45 or something like that. I was very happy for him. Overall it was a good experience. The Copenhagen Marathon route was very interesting as well, the buildings, the water cannals and parks were very pretty but I remember the weather to be little chilly and windy.

I remember keeping up with Ragnar until the 25th km and we were averaging a pace of 5:24 min/km, which would have been a great race completion pace. I am hoping to better my PB in Berlin in the coming Chicago Marathon.

Copenhagen Marathon: 4:08:00!

Completed the copenhagen marathon in 4 hours and 8 minutes. It was a disappointing result! Lesson learnt, there is not substitute for hard work... I was travelling in India for 3 weeks before the marathon and skipped couple of long runs and it came back to bite me in the race. I also did not do enough milage during the training. But net net I was happy that I was able to finish with a respectable time without much training.

I am not sure what my next goal is, if I am still in Iceland in August I plan to run half a marathon in 1:40:00.

Copenhagen Marathon 2008

I decided a couple of days ago to run the Copenhagen Marathon 2008. Here is the training schedule so far, I have to admit have not been running as regularly as I wanted to and that is one of the reason that I am signing up to run the Marathon. It forces me to work on a goal. Anyway, will be posting my training update on a regular basis. The weather in Iceland has been quite cold, it has been snowing more than ever.

Here is the training worksheet so far... I have had more practice runs than this but I did not capture it as it was on a treadmill.