| Location: Cambridge,MA, Member Since: Apr 15, 2007 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: 3:25:46 Marathon (Seattle '07)
1:36:56 Half Marathon (Whidbey '07)
1:34:30 Half Marathon - in race (Seattle '07)
53:02 12k (Rhody Run '07)
6:55 pace 14.52/185 mi relay (Northwest Passage '08) Short-Term Running Goals: Weight
June 1: 163 157!
June 8: 161 156
June 15: 159 156
June 22: 157 153
June 29: 155
July 6: 153
July 13: 151
July 20: 149 August 1: 149.6!
Races
Oct 26: Cape Cod Marathon Long-Term Running Goals: Emulate my stepfather -- still running at 87!
Personal: I know a secret technique for opening mangos taught me by a Wolof sorcerer. I was briefly a political appointee at the U.N. I am intimately familiar with a disciple of David Hume. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 67.83 | 0.50 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 73.33 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
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I have been very achey the last two days. Was planning to go out yesterday afternoon, but leg kind of hurt and work went long etc. This morning still felt crappy but after two miles the fog sort of lifted (not outside--a perfect overcast Puget Sound day). Ended up with a very satisfying if short run.
The only fly in the ointment was the SUV that pulled up on my tail right before I rolled into home. I hate when they just sit there, refusing to pass, often honking at you gratuitously, as if you can't hear their 300 liter fuel injected engine from a mile away. Sometimes they yell things. It's always SUVs. I shouldn't let it harsh my buzz, but this one got under my skin. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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Very satisfying Saturday morning run. Out with David to the trail system on Stottlemeyer, did about 45 minutes there, quite decent clip. Then at his suggestion we chugged up to the Pt Gamble turnoff and back - 70 min in all. Slight BR emergency about 100 yards before the cars, luckily D came armed with TP. Bushes are good.
Still having problems with tightness in the skinny muscles between the tibialis anterior and the calf proper; once again after about 15 min/2-2.5 miles; and as soon as I stretch it for three minutes it's OK for the duration. But very uncomfortable if I don't. Kind of annoying. Wonder if there's something I can do to get it looser more of the time.
30.2 for the week, second week above 30 and this time it feels like a pretty good pattern (two long two short), allowing me to sustain this level without too much wear and tear until everything is back to normal.
Nimbus 86
Postscript: I usually don't nap after runs, but did this time and I feel great! |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| No muscular soreness after our fast 5k to end yesterday's run, and very little discomfort in the foot and leg--no different from what I'd feel after an off day. Good news. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Easy run in the PM. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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Bike camping with DG. Seattle to San Juan Island via Whidbey, Deception Pass, and Anacortes, 88 mi. Funny little tableau on the Deception Pass bridge: we decided to get off the roadway and had a hell of a time getting past all the fat people on the very narrow pedestrian section. Weather totally loverly. Found a little out of the way glade to squat in - lodgings thus free. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 40 miles or so all around San Juan Island. Much fun. Stunning morning with marine mammals at Lime Kiln Point lighthouse; amusing tour of English Camp, where we got to hoist the only British flag at a U.S. national park and eat medicinal plants in the formal garden; lunch of salami and pepper jack at the fancy shmancy marina. The highlight though was gin and tonics with a troupe of Shakepearean players by their farmhouse stage as night fell and skeeters buzzed, talking Richard III and the Merchant of Venice. Slept well. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Return trip, 90 miles or so back home. Last hill by Edmonds was kind of tough. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
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It's been two weeks since my last confession. Moving, work and vacation took their toll. Got out for a quick 3 miles just to find my legs again. Going to try and get back up to 22 or 23 this week, then resume at 28-30.
Didn't hydrate well beforehand, and PM protein was mostly cheese. First two miles were good, then got a horrible stitch. When the HR is 170 on a totally flat 9:15 mile you know you're in a world of hurt. Ran through it, but only just. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.03 |
| Very pleasant morning run. Nice light, unstrained 8:00 pace, good stretching afterward. More like this. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Easy four in the morning. 8ish pace. Very free and easy. I'm loving this flat Greenlake action. Ten tomorrow would make for a not-totally embrassing week. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 11.00 | 0.50 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
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Moderate warmup down Ravenna then met David on Burke Gilman for a brisk 8 miles. Nice overcast day; felt like I was laboring just a little at first, then settled down. On the way back we got a bug in the ear (I think it was David's story of the old lady at the Motel 6) and surged uphill to about 6:15 for a half mile or so. Was already at 25 for the week when I dropped him off, and my mileage has been low, so had a coffee at Tully's then jogged very slowly home. Average worked out to about 7:30. Satisfying run.
Postscript: felt just fine all day, normal slight soreness gone by afternoon. But I was bending over to pick up my shoes around 5:00 and tweaked my lower back, just above the top edge of the right pelvis, about 2 inches away from the spine. For the last few days I've been feeling a sort of ache or tug in precisely that area when I start running, which soon goes away, not to return. I guess it just returned. I'm guessing iliopsoas, but would be curious to hear from anyone with a similar complaint, and maybe a good stretch. Meanwhile, 400 mg of Vitamin I is helping. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Greenlake. Tight calves. Objective today was to keep HR below 150, which made for 8:30-8:45 miles. Hip/back still a bit sore: weird, since it's not really by a joint. But I guess you can sprain/strain anything with connective tissue. Didn't affect my stride in any obvious way. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.80 |
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AM: Greenlake. Woke at 4:00 and never got to sleep again, so did another sub-150 HR special, keeping it mostly under 140 until the very end.
PM: 3.5 at 8:00/mi. A little faster than I'd intended for this experimental two-a-day. Totally unforced, body just seemed to want to go there. The mileage isn't unprecedented or anything. We'll see how it feels in the morning. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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Greenlake in the AM. Right hamstring a bit sore, otherwise OK. Took a couple miles to warm up, then hit superluminary speed beating the light across Aurora. Fittingly enough.
PM: a distinctly subluminary 4. Many young persons underfoot in the dark; did my best not to trample them, and the rabbits neither. But it was hard to see, so I can't be sure. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 3.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.75 |
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super slo-mo after work around the lake. Did mix in 6x100m strides at 6ish pace. After the final go my slo-mo was barely mo, though -- whoa! -- so I go home.
postscript: 6ish pace, hah! Garmin claims I topped out at 16mph on the second set. Now if only I could sustain that for a mile.... |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 4.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.75 |
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Yes, boys and girls, today's word is S L O W. Mr. Shin was very displeased with our attempt yesterday to make like Jeremy Wariner. Kept looking around for a pace that felt alright, started at 8:30, descended into the 9s, finally settled on 10:15.
My highest mileage 7 days thus far, at 41, though a fairly modest 28 for the "week." Tomorrow is off, and we'll start off right on Sunday with 14. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 67.83 | 0.50 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 73.33 |
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