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Location:

cokeville,wy,usa

Member Since:

Jun 25, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Unknown

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get fit again! Casper Marathon on June 8th in Casper, Wyoming. I don't have a specific goal time for it, as I don't know the course real well, but I'd like to shoot for 6 minute pace.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run for your life! Stay active enough to eat seconds and ice cream without guilt.

Personal:

Married to a beautiful wife AnnMarie, who is also a 3:15 marathoner and the mother of our handsome 2 year old, Myles and newbie Sullivan. Sullivant was born 2 years and one day after Myles was born. Myles knows only one speed--running all out. Kinda like Prefontaine.  Besides running, I enjoy reading, woodworking, fishing, and chasing Myles around our house.

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Scheduled for a Daniels' "T" workout, though I must admit I had my doubts as I jogged over to the weber high track. My hamstrings were a little fried from biking up the divide yesterday, and I didn't feel rested when I woke up. Nonetheless, it was still overcast, so I figured if I didn't at least attempt to get the workout in, it would be too easy to not do any of it. The plan was 4xmile at threshold pace with 60 seconds recovery, then an hour easy run, followed by 15-20 minutes of threshold running. I left my racing flats in Cokeville, and I wished I had them this morning--the closest I could come to them was the Nike Pegasus, which, while cushioned and comfortable they are, they are not conducive to track workouts, in my humble estimation. Anyway, my first lap was 82, and I was hoping it would be 77 or something like that, letting me know I was going faster than necessary. No such luck, so I dug down and gutted out a 5:21 for the first mile, in clunky trainers. 5:20, 5:19, and 5:19 for the rest, decided to bag it and go for the 60 minutes and 15/20 threshold this evening. I feel like a slug.

Comments
From Lulu on Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 14:53:52

I am training for Chicago in October too. Good luck with qualifying there. I, of course, am not in your league but I see you wrote that you feel like a slug. I want to encourage you and remind you what you already know. Training hard (until we feel like slugs) and then taking appropriate rest is how we build fitness. I am at that point right now too. And I am having nutrition issues -- I am not eating enough. However, I know that next week is a recovery week so after another week of feeling pretty terrible, I will feel wonderful by next Monday a week and a half from now. Good luck. And at Chicago, may the wind be at your back! I'll be rooting for you from mid-pack.

From Sasha Pachev on Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 17:02:18

Joe - just imagine what this entry looks like to the rest of the world. Ran a mile in 5:20 4 times with a minute rest in between, feel like a slug. Most people reading this have never run even one 5:20 mile. I suppose it is all relative. I remember Steve Wilson recounting his experience in Austin - "I was doing well up to 18, and then I got an asthma attack, and 5:40 was all I could do". Or Ryan Hall being disappointed seeing 5:08 split for mile 25.

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