California International Marathon. Garmin Connect - Details

Untitled by kbertasso at Garmin Connect - Details What a day! I knew it wasn't my day at MHM and I made a smart decision to stop, but waiting another 6 weeks, training alone, through daylight savings, shorter days and cold was rough! But I stuck it out and came back to train during those 6 weeks hard. I never got my mileage back up into the 80's, but did a mini reverse taper after MHM and got back up to 73-74 miles about 4 weeks out from CIM. I ran the Troy Turkey Troy 10 days out from CIM and that helped boost my confidence a bit. Weeks prior to TTT my goal was to run sub 37. As the race approach, the forecast changed my goal pretty significantly. 20 mph winds were predicted with a high of 21, real feel of 8. Not really ideal for a 10k. After seeing that forecast I just wanted to run close to 38 minutes. I ended up running 37:10 for second place, which was better than I had anticipated given the cold and windy conditions. From there I tapered. My knee started to bother me and I pretty much freaked out the week before the marathon. I added some additional exercises for my knee and made it to the start line pretty confident. Sunday, December 8th, 2013… to be continued!