| Location: St. Petersburg,FL, Member Since: Dec 30, 2014 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments:
- 5k - 3/8/14 - Armadillo Run - 15:58
- 10k - 2/7/15 - BDR, Safety Harbor - 33:17
- 15k - 2/21/15 - Gasparilla - 51:05
- 1/2 - 12/14/14 - Holiday Halfathon - 1:13:31
- Marathon - 10/04/15 - Twin Cities - 2:38:46
Short-Term Running Goals: 2016 Races
Clearwater Halfathon - Jan 11
Donna Hicken Marathon - Feb 14
Gasparilla 15k - Feb 20
Florida Beach Halfathon - Mar 6
??? Chicago Marathon ??? Long-Term Running Goals: Find balance. Run with my girls. Break 15 in the 5k. Personal: Born in 1973 in Southern California.
Ran in high school for Arcadia. They have a famous cross-country team now. In my day, we were famous for dodging our coach during runs.
Over the next 15 years I ran very little, but life was awesome. I lived mostly in Northern California, where I met my wife. We moved back to her native state of Florida in 2005, where I gradually started running more seriously.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 278.50 | 6.00 | 19.50 | 0.50 | 304.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 miles midday with Elise on her bike. Hip was sore, but at least legs not trashed.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
| AM: 8 miles.
PM: 8 miles at lunch with Quint in obscene heat/humidity.
Today I actually felt pretty good. I felt drained for so long after this last marathon - feels like the 1/2 marathon shook something loose. I'm going to try to train more normally this week, without digging a deeper hole.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.50 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 14.50 |
| AM: 6 miles.
PM: 8.5 miles at track. Did a mix of 800s and unstructured speedwork (AKA Mike's Point Game). I tried to strike a balance between getting in some quality and not pushing my left leg too hard. As it was, the humidity and my fitness kept me from overdoing it.
4 800s with 200 rest: 2:41.2 / 2:34.8 / 2:35.7 / 2:31.8, and some shorter pickups on the Pinellas Trail.
Fun time running, and I'm feeling much better overall. It is a little tough to watch Mike and Sean blast off only to chase after them like Mikey in A Christmas Story. I just need to focus on incremental improvements each week, and consistency, and better results will come.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.50 |
| AM: 7 miles. Leg a little gamey this morning, but not bad considering some speedwork the night before.
PM: 8.5 miles at lunch with Quint.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 17.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 |
| AM: 8 miles.
Lunch: 8 miles.
PM: 1 mile after work with Elise. It was hot and humid, and she hated it, but I was merciless.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 18.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
| AM: 12 mile progression run, from 9:10 to 6:06. Left leg was so-so - became sore around mile 6.5.
PM: 6 miles at lunch.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| AM: 8.5 miles pushing the jogging stroller to the park, freeze tag with the girls, and back again.
PM: 4.5 miles before dinner, actually felt OK around 7:00 pace. A few weird twinges though.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 18.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| AM: 20 miles, 7:02 avg. Pretty good long run this morning with a very good group. Started out a big bigger, then boiled down to Mike, Sean, Anthony and myself. Reasonable pace overall with a 5 mile tempo section in the middle. My leg was throbbing on the drive home, took an ice bath, which helped.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
| AM: 6 miles.
PM: 10 miles at lunch.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.50 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 14.50 |
| AM: 4 miles.
PM: 10.5 miles at track. 4 x 1 mile, 400 rest, with Sean and Anthony.
- 5:20.1
- 5:22.7
- 5:23.0
- 5:14.8
I'm not happy with this, but I don't feel like dwelling on it right now. I'm running better than I was a couple weeks ago, at least.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| AM: 4.5 miles. Intervals the night before left my hip feeling more sore than I wanted, so I skipped the afternoon run.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| PM: 6 miles at lunch with Quint. Not feeling good, but trying to keep the fire burning.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| AM: 8.5 miles, attempted wave tempo, pulled the plug early.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 1.00 |
| AM: Saturday morning park running with the girls, a couple hard 400s.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 17.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 |
| AM: 14 miles with Forerunners. Good time seeing the crew, bad time running sore and broken down. Cut out early.
PM: 3 miles late afternoon with Elise on her bike.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| AM: 4 miles.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| AM: 10 miles. Can't go to track tonight due to parent meeting at my daughter's school. Tagged along with Christina and Meredith on their workout: 8x800, 400 rest between items, we averaged about 2:53.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| 8 miles at lunch with Quint, bright spot in an otherwise brightless day.
PM: 3 miles after work with Elise on her bike. Last mile at 6:33 - not sure how much longer I can do easy runs with her!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 8 miles at lunch with Quint. Turned over a 26 page technical document at work today, which was a huge relief. The rest of 2015 looks downhill after that - knock on wood...
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
| AM: 8 miles. 3 x 1 mile, 400 rest, on roads with Christina, averaged 5:54.
PM: 8 miles at lunch with Quint.
Hip/hamstring slowly improving, but still uncomfortable under 6:00 pace. Mentally I feel better, or maybe I've just reached the acceptance stage.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| AM: 8 miles pushing the girls to the park, then a few quick laps around the jogging circle.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 31.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 31.00 |
| 31 miles in 3:50:49, 7:27 avg.
No reason in particular for running that much today. I wanted to see what 50k felt like, and had the day open to convalesce on the couch.
I was kind of hoping I'd see leprechauns dancing around double rainbows or something, but mostly I was sore and bored.
It did occur to me that maybe my hamstring soreness is like a charlie horse that just needs to be worked out. After 31 miles, I am pretty sure it is actually plain injured.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| AM: 4 miles.
PM: 4 miles.
Was hoping for more on both runs, but the expected holiday week slowdown didn't materialize.
What did materialize was a dew point drop from 72 to 35 over the span of ~24 hours. Running felt incredible today despite the the long run yesterday. Every person I saw out there was running fast.
Surreal, exciting, annoying.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.50 | 0.00 | 6.50 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| AM: 4 miles.
PM: 11 miles at track with Sean and Jim. Pretty deserted since Clearwater Turkey Trot is around the corner. I did a long ladder workout: 100s, 200s, 300s, 400s & 600s coming out to 6.5 miles of speed. None of it too fast, a lot around 5:30 pace.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| AM: 9 miles. I got Elise to run a mile with me while my wife was out running, and Anna rode in the jogging stroller.
Then I went out for the rest of my run. My mechanics have been noticeably off while I've been dealing with this hip/hamstring issue. I find myself clenching the opposite side fist, probably because of the weakness in the opposing side.
So ironically, I was running and really trying to focus on my form when I tripped and hit the ground hard. I was just concentrating too much on my upper body and not looking down.
Instinctively I turned my right shoulder down to buffer the impact. I was running low 6 minute pace, so the impact was considerable. I was able to jog home, but it was pretty clear something was wrong. Not time to linger on it - packing, drive to Jacksonville.
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| I woke up on Thanksgiving and couldn't raise my arm, so I went to the ER. The good news is that nothing is torn or broken. I have a strained ligament in my right shoulder, and the doctor told me to expect 2-6 weeks off running.
Thanksgiving was Elise's 7th birthday, and we had a great time celebrating that and the holiday with Allison's parents and sister's family.
I put off thinking about my running situation completely and had a good time. At some point I'll deal with running realities, but at the moment I can barely move my arm, so why bother.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| A little step back on my shoulder. Elise got a new bike for her birthday - she has pretty much outgrown her first bike at this point.
I still have many boxes to unpack in the garage, and I spent a lot time searching through them for the training wheels for the old bike so I could get Anna started on riding. It was a lot of lifting, too much - and I was sore this morning.
It was worth it though - great to see little Anna riding around, and she was very happy about it. She also picked out a helmet that has anime-style racoon ears, which is the cutest thing ever.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 278.50 | 6.00 | 19.50 | 0.50 | 304.50 |
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