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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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Sun, Nov 22, 2015
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
31.000.000.000.0031.00

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.

Comments
From Mike M on Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 21:22:30 from 65.96.105.243

I want to do a run like this! Count me in next time!

From Jason D on Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 22:30:23 from 68.80.27.222

I had a pretty good laugh about the dancing leprechauns.

When I first broke 3 hours it was my first Boston qualifier and I was most relieved when I realized my long runs never really needed to be longer than 3 hours. I'm drawn to the 50k distance though. I am tentatively thinking about the Rocky 50k in 2 weeks but it goes against my post-marathon rest principles (it's low-key, no fees, etc).

Sorry about the leg. I hope it heals up for you soon.

From Drew on Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 18:19:09 from 173.171.218.92

Mike - yesterday I would have say, never again. Today - OK, but you have to make it happen. :) Not seeing running tracking on the SpaceCoast site - anything you can do about that?

Jason - yeah, on one level, it's crazy to run 50k two weeks after a marathon. But, if it's just for the experience, like I did it on Sunday - it's not bad. Running it easy is no worse than any marathon training long run - although I'm sure racing it would be plenty painful.

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