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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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Great day, except the running part. My long suffering wife got to sleep in, and we made bacon, eggs and cinnamon rolls. 5 mile family run, then I headed back out a little after 10 to get the rest in. Quint met me midway through the run, and we got it done, but between the heat and excessive bacon consumption I was massively dehyrdated. The rest of the day was good though - headed into Tampa and relaxed with my wife's sister's family.

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AM: 10 mile slog.

PM: 12 miles. Client meeting on the east side of the Clearwater Causeway got done in a hurry, so I had plenty of time for running at lunch. Met Quint a couple miles in and we ran west on the Causeway to just pass the hump. As we ran up the small pedestrian bridge, we saw a few dolphins swimming by. Different route, that really helped.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
17.000.001.000.0018.00

AM: 10 miles.

PM: 8 miles. Track didn't play out quite as planned. Workout was 400s, which I was planning to do a bit sub-MP. At the start of warmup, we could see a dark patch in the distance, otherwise clear and blazing sun. Within 45 minutes we had blackend sky and lightning strikes nearby. A few of us waited awhile, but it was only getting worse.

I got in 3 400s. On the block of classrooms next to the track, I got in two more miles running up to the second floor, along a short corridor and back down. It took about 20 of those to get a mile.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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AM: 10 miles.

PM: 10 miles. Lunch meeting broke up the normal slot. Squeezed running in after work, 2 with Elise on her bike. Hopefully we can make that happen more.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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AM: 10 miles back and forth on the Pinellas Bayway bridge. Better pace than last week, but still pretty relaxed. The alarm clock this morning felt like a rock through my window.

PM: 10 miles.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.004.000.000.0020.00

AM: 10 miles, with 4 mile MP tempo at 5:52 avg (5:55, 5:53, 5:53, 5:46). I'm targeting 5:55 as marathon pace at the moment. As training gets more specific, I may tweak that a bit in either direction.

PM: 10 miles at lunch, Clearwater Causeway, over the hump and back again.

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AM: 13 miles, 6 w/ the girls to the park, 7 solo. Elise ran .5 with me of her own choosing, which was cool.

PM: 4 miles.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
135.004.001.000.00140.00
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