{"id":155,"date":"2008-01-10T07:02:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T15:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=155"},"modified":"2008-01-09T19:27:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T03:27:33","slug":"race-plan-for-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-plan-for-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Plan for 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I bit the bullet and registered for my first 2008 race. My plan has been to run a spring 1\/2 marathon before my fall marathon debut. There was a lot to consider:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Time to rest\/recover before starting marathon training<\/li>\n
  2. Potential weather<\/li>\n
  3. Course – flat vs hilly<\/li>\n
  4. Longevity of race – I found an inaugural race, but they make me a little nervous<\/li>\n
  5. Proximity to home – I don’t want to spend lots of money and travel around the country for races if I can help it.<\/li>\n
  6. Cost – This was $25 which is pretty cheap for a half marathon<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So with all of the those factors combined I chose the Earth Day Half Marathon<\/a> to be held on April 19, 2008 or Earth Day. I’ll begin my 12 week training program on January 27, 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 Until then I will be increasing my mileage and doing base-building.
    \n


    \n
    \n<\/center> My goals (may be subject to change):1st – Break 1:30<\/p>\n

    2nd – PR – sub- 1:34<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Last night I bit the bullet and registered for my first 2008 race. My plan has been to run a spring 1\/2 marathon before my fall marathon debut. There was a lot to consider: Time to rest\/recover before starting marathon training Potential weather Course – flat vs hilly Longevity of race – I found an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[681],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon","category-my-running","tag-half-marathon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-2v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":233,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/looking-ahead-half-and-full-marathon\/","url_meta":{"origin":155,"position":0},"title":"Looking Ahead – Half and Full Marathon","author":"crossn81","date":"April 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking ahead this week I'm doing two pretty major things. I'm not sure what order they will happen exactly but I think I'm going to 1) Register for the 27th Annual Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon on Friday and then 2) race the Earth Day Half Marathon on Saturday. Twin Cities\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Half Marathon"","block_context":{"text":"Half Marathon","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/half-marathon\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":627,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/tcm-race-plan\/","url_meta":{"origin":155,"position":1},"title":"TCM Race Plan","author":"crossn81","date":"October 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Every race should have a plan. I think for my marathon debut at the Twin Cities Marathon I am going to go out at about 5 minute pace for the first half and drop to 4:30 pace for the last. That should help me set the marathon world record. I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marathon"","block_context":{"text":"Marathon","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/marathon\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":191,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/2-million-half-marathon\/","url_meta":{"origin":155,"position":2},"title":"$2 Million Half-Marathon","author":"crossn81","date":"February 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember the $1 Million Marathon in January? That is nothing compared to Thursday's $2 Million Half-Marathon - twice the money for half the distance, can't beat that. The Zayeed Half Marathon will be the richest long distance race in the world. The marathon is taking place in Abu Dhabi the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Half Marathon"","block_context":{"text":"Half Marathon","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/half-marathon\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":520,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/marathon-training-week-14\/","url_meta":{"origin":155,"position":3},"title":"Marathon Training: Week 14","author":"crossn81","date":"September 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Image from stock.xchn. Only a few more weeks to go and I think the fall weather has finally arrived.\u00a0 I ran what was hopefully my last \"hot\" run on Monday.\u00a0 It is amazing how much the temps have dropped through the week.\u00a0 Monday morning was 70 and the temps barely\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marathon"","block_context":{"text":"Marathon","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/marathon\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":713,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/october-highlights\/","url_meta":{"origin":155,"position":4},"title":"October Highlights","author":"crossn81","date":"October 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This really should be titled \"Marathon Highlights\" since most of the month this year and last was talking about marathons!\u00a0 Did I talk too much about it this year? Well it was a major highlight of the year and I spent plenty of weeks training, thinking, and focusing on it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Highlights"","block_context":{"text":"Highlights","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/highlights\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":945,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/stillwater-marathon-a-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":155,"position":5},"title":"Stillwater Marathon A Go","author":"crossn81","date":"December 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stillwater Marathon was given approval by the Stillwater City Council yesterday, according to the Star-Tribune. In a previous post I talked about some of the problems the event faced, including 15 other marathon races within a month (either way) in the local area.\u00a0 Many thanks to the commenters who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Information"","block_context":{"text":"Information","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/information\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}