The Silicon Valley Geek » Boston Marathon http://www.svgeek.com/blog What's Ben Chong up to these days? Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:31:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Pushing the limits at 20 miles http://www.svgeek.com/blog/2008/03/23/pushing-the-limits-at-20-miles/ http://www.svgeek.com/blog/2008/03/23/pushing-the-limits-at-20-miles/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:16:37 +0000 Ben Chong http://www.svgeek.com/blog/2008/03/23/pushing-the-limits-at-20-miles/

I finally got around to doing a 20-mile run today. I got up late (after 7am), didn’t start running until about 9.15am and did a solid 3 1/2 hours of running.

It was hot in San Jose today, so I was a fair bit slower than my last 18-mile run; running mostly at a pace of 10 min/mile or more.

Like the 18-mile run, I did try to push hard on the last two miles to do a strong “finish”, running at better than 9:20 min/mile. But that was really pushing my limits.

After the run, I was completely out of it and ached all over.

Boston is looking further and further away…

The good thing is that my ITB didn’t bother me before or after the run. So it looks like I have just one more session with the physiotherapist and that will be it. Yay! I am healed!

Next week, I will do a 16-mile run, followed by a 22-miler the week after. Now, that will be a killer.

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