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Race Goals for Grandma’s Marathon

June 10, 2018 By: Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC18 Comments

It’s race week, y’all. Grandma’s Marathon is Saturday and I am so excited. I always love writing my race goals blog post because it gives me time to plan and visualize. I have very simple goals for Grandma’s Marathon and I’m excited to share them with you. If you want to follow along, there is a Grandma’s app and you can track me – my bib is 7931 for tracking purposes.

Grandmas Marathon Race Goals

Obviously, I’ve been trying to run a sub-4 hour marathon and that is still the goal. I like to do A goals, B goals and C goals for race day. My A goal is my perfect day goal – literally the day you dream about.My B goal is an average day – what I’d expect to run on a day with some high and some lows.My C goal is not a great day and is one of those days that is just not your day.

  • A Goal: 3:57. This is a 9:02 pace – and one I think is well within my fitness level. I am excited to get out there and see a new course and hopefully experience great weather. 
  • B Goal: 3:59:59. I would be thrilled to see this time – just seeing a 3 on the clock would be fantastic. 
  • C Goal: PR (faster than 4:14). This is always a goal in a goal race and I know that if something goes sideways, being able to focus on just getting a PR will be helpful. 

My coach has said to consider 9:10 pace or faster a big win and I’m taking that to heart. This has been a tough year and a tough training cycle but I feel ready. Nervous as heck, but ready. I’m so excited to have so many friends and Oiselle teammates racing and looking forward to seeing a number of my teammates over the weekend. I have been visualizing the race and imagining how I’ll feel (tired, frustrated, happy, etc.) the past couple of weeks and I’m just ready to do the damn thing! 

Wish me luck and of course, check in on Instagram to see how it went. 

Anyone else racing this weekend? Good luck to ya! 


Comments

  1. Amy Lauren Scott says

    June 13, 2018 at 9:16 pm

    Good luck this weekend! I will definitely stalk your Instagram to see how it goes for you.

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      June 13, 2018 at 10:41 pm

      Lol thanks so much!

      Reply
  2. Coco says

    June 13, 2018 at 9:51 pm

    I’m so excited for you. You know you’ve done the training – time to crush your goals!

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      June 13, 2018 at 10:42 pm

      Thank you so much 🙂

      Reply
  3. Janelle @ Run says

    June 13, 2018 at 10:16 pm

    Can’t wait to hear how it goes – you kicked ass this training cycle, now you’ll get to enjoy the fruits. Have a great race!
    Janelle @ Run recently posted…Global Running Day: Would You Rather…?My Profile

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      June 13, 2018 at 10:42 pm

      Thank you – I’m excited!

      Reply
  4. North anOn says

    June 13, 2018 at 10:57 pm

    Have fun, Courtney! I’ll be following along and can’t wait to find out how you do. I am so proud of you.

    Reply
    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      June 13, 2018 at 11:05 pm

      Thank you for all the support!

      Reply
  5. Darlene says

    June 14, 2018 at 7:28 am

    Good luck in your race. You have worked hard and I am confident that you will run well.

    Hope you get A but even C is s good one. A PR is a PR.

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      June 14, 2018 at 3:14 pm

      Thanks Darlene – and you are right – a PR is a PR!

      Reply
  6. Jennifer Fox says

    June 14, 2018 at 8:29 am

    Thank you for sharing your journey, you’ve done the work now it’s time to spread your wings and fly! Have an amazing race.

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      June 14, 2018 at 3:13 pm

      Thank you very much!

      Reply
  7. Pam says

    June 14, 2018 at 1:07 pm

    Have fun at knock it out of the park Courtney.

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      June 14, 2018 at 3:14 pm

      Thank you so much, Pam!

      Reply
  8. lindsey @ livinglovingrunner says

    June 19, 2018 at 3:01 pm

    So sorry to hear about your race…you will be back in no time! I anticipate that you will expand on the experience soon…and I look forward to see how the day unfolded.

    Reply
    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      July 2, 2018 at 11:19 am

      Thanks – I just posted a short update – it sucked but I’m moving on!

      Reply
  9. Amy says

    June 21, 2018 at 8:46 am

    Awww I checked Insta and I read what happened. Ugh. Such a bummer. Sorry. But you’ll be back.

    If you have a minute check out my latest post about a free timed 5k I did while on vacation.

    Reply
    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      July 2, 2018 at 11:18 am

      Thanks!

      Reply

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