| 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 | | 62.50 | 11.50 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 77.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 22.00 |
| Take 2 on a workout that fizzled out three weeks ago. Target was 1 warmup, 10 miles at MP + 1:00, 10 miles at MP, 1 cooldown.
Last time the MP section was a struggle immediately, and I blew up pretty badly around mile 7. I felt confident this time out - before I ran on the Pinellas Trail, with 7 overpasses on the way out, 7 back. I've done a lot of running on inclines in the last three weeks, and the uphill running today was a lot less taxing. Most importantly, conditions were much better. Lots of clouds, lower temps and humidity. We even got drenched in a couple downpours.
Quint and Christina ran the first half out with me, and a couple other friends jumped in near my turnaround. At points it felt a little chaotic in the darkness and rain, but it was a fun time and the pace felt easy. First 10 in 1:08:42, 6:52 avg.
It took a couple miles to really click into MP on the way back, but that seems to be the case in most of my runs around 5:55 these days. It works itself out by mile 3, so I don't force it. I felt as strong on the second half as I have all summer at this pace, and ended in 58:45, 5:52 avg. That's about 10 seconds faster than I ran either of my mid-week 10 mile MP tempo runs.
I think I have gotten a bit sharper, but I attribute most of the improvement today to better weather.
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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: 4 miles. Very nice temps this morning, but not moving fast.
PM: 8 miles at lunch with Quint.
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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 |
| PM: 12 miles. Crazy day, but overall positive. No chance to run until track. I wasn't planning on running hard, but I was surprised by how beat up I felt today. Funny how the day after a big workout can feel OK, but two days later it's ouchville.
Just jogged and caught up with Charles and Jim. I thought about crossing the street to the Pinellas Trail and running a few overpasses, but even that sounded like too much.
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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 |
| Day off. Not planned, but it made sense. I worked late, and had a crazy day, so the extra time came in handy. I also pretty ragged on my afternoon run yesterday.
An interesting thing happened at work today. A client lost the admin password to their SQL Server, and had no other account with admin access on the machine. I had read about a method of elevating privileges and got to try it. I was kind of surprised that it worked. I'm glad it did, but the implication that anyone with admin access on the host machine can gain admin access to the database instance is pretty crazy.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 15.50 |
| AM: 9 miles. My plan for today was a 6 mile wave tempo alternating 10k / MP every 1/2 mile. This is a tough workout, and I was feeling pretty broken down and amotivated this morning, but I gave it a try. My target splits were 2:57.5 / 2:36. I got through 3 miles and threw in the towel.
2:56.2 / 2:40
2:58.0 / 2:39.8
2:58.0 / 2:42.7
I felt pretty comfortable recovering to MP, but I haven't run much at all sub-5:20 lately, and it showed. I'm not worried (maybe too unconcerned?) about it. It would have been nice to hit this workout, but after 4-5 weeks of good workouts I'm due for some downtime, and taper etc.
PM: 6.5 miles at lunch with Quint, good therapy session / blowing off steam.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Headed to work early to finish proposal, was done by 3. Met Quint in downtown St. Pete for a run - we decided to do our descending 1/2 mile game. No looking at your watch except when it beeps every half mile, and every half needs to be faster, or GAME OVER.
About midway through we ran into Sean. He resumed full training three weeks ago (injury recovery), ran the Eerie Marathon in 2:47 last weekend, and came along with us for descending halves. He's a beast.
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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 |
| Elise's first swim meet. A lot to take in as a parent. I'm not sure if it always works out the way it did Saturday, but parents are expected to volunteer. I chose concessions since it seemed the hardest to mess up. This meant arriving at 6:30am and finishing at 1. Somewhere in there, Elise swam two races which lasted a little over 30 seconds each.
Crashed for an hour, then moderate 8 miles, fed, bathed kids, babysitter arrived, dinner with Allison.
Not really a great week training-wise, but there was a lot going on.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 62.50 | 11.50 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 77.00 |
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