| 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 | | 65.00 | 2.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 73.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 |
| AM: 17 miles, averaged 6:45. Started with a good group, but after a few miles warmup we started picking it up, and it was just Mike and me for the second half.
Some people are good at taking downtime to recover- I'm not. I'm not a health nut by nature, so when I'm not training with focus, I tend to eat worse and stay up later.
I knew I needed to test my hamstring and shake the dust off this morning, and I think that got done, but it wasn't pretty. The combo of lazy running, a Belgian chocolate pie last night and ascendant humidity made this one a struggle. It was basically a progression run through about mile 13 when we managed two miles at 5:45 then 5:35, then I had to throw in the towel.
Definitely not adapted to the humidity yet. The dew point was 69, which is unpleasant, but at the peak of summer this would be dream weather. After the 5:35 mile, my heart rate was through the roof.
I think Mike knew I needed to take my mind off the suffering, so he spent the next mile describing the role of three-dimensional shapes in Greek philosophy, how they were translated into theories of the elements, and how those theories led Kepler to elliptical planetary orbits. Since the discussion was based on a lesson for his elementary students, I was able to follow about 75% of it in my stupor.
I spent the next few hours at home useless, promising my wife I'd get productive as soon as I could move again.
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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 |
| Skipped the morning and ran 8 at lunch with Quint. Felt surprisingly good.
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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 |
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Lunch: 10 miles. Met up with Quint, Josh and Christina at Northshore Pool. Coach gave us a good plan: 4 mile tempo, commit to a pace, and start accordingly to finish together. Josh started off early since he was looking to run easy. Christina signed up for 6:30 pace, Quint for 6:15, and I was aiming for 5:45. Christina started, Quint one minute later, then 2 minutes later I took off.
The competitive angle on the workout really helped us today. We hooked around the Pier, and although my first mile was 5:42, I saw I had only gained about 10 seconds on Quint!! I managed to catch him at 3.75. Splits were 5:42, 5:38, 5:32, 5:25. Considering we ran this at noon, this was a very good workout for me, the first in awhile.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
| AM: 6 miles.
PM: 8 miles with Quint at lunch.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| AM: 6 miles.
PM: 6 miles with Quint and Josh.
Half marathon this Sunday! It is the last race in a local series. You need to run three of four races to place in the series, with your top three times summed up. Also, participation in the last race is mandatory. Top five places win money, which has an interesting effect. The cash is nice but not life-changing, but it does bring a lot more focus and competition to the events.
On the men's side, first place is locked up barring a broken leg. I'm currently in second, but there are four guys close behind me, all of whom are running better than they were at the beginning of the season. That's not so much the case for me. I haven't exactly been slacking, but treading water might even be kind. Thankfully, I haven't worried about my time and pace Sunday - my focus will be on racing well. I expect the race to go out fast. I will need to balance keeping within range of the leaders against not blowing up. It will be a muggy day, and that will play a role too.
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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 |
| AM: 6 miles.
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| AM: 6 miles, couple strides.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 65.00 | 2.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 73.00 |
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