| 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!
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 157.80 | 0.00 | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 164.80 |
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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 |
| Snow! Very queasy. |
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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 |
| Still feeling sick and given hard rain seemed imprudent. |
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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 |
| Was looking forward to a run until I looked outside. Um, not. Oceanic. DG called at 515 and I was happy to go back to bed. Many flooded basements. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| 530 with DG. Weather was nice. Still feeling a bit weak, whether the aftermath of the marathon (unlikely this far along?) or of the flu. Also noticing some unexpected post-partum depression, a.k.a. the "Okay, now what?" feeling. Nothing serious, just a bit unmotivated and needing to recalibrate my goals and refocus. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
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That's some day. Sweet weather: sunny and cold. Ravenna to the Burke-Gilman Trail a ways.
Achilles was complaining until mile 5, after the turnaround did a mile at about 7:00 just to see what it would feel like. Had plenty of giddyup, but when I moved my stride into higher gear in the soreness in the hip/pelvis was pretty noticeable. Then hit the Ravenna hill and it was immediately clear exactly what threw a monkey wrench into my marathon: weak adductors. The same muscle group that I was stressing for the higher stride is front and center on a steep incline. Once again, couldn't exceed but 10:00 between miles 9-10, and then was pretty much done. Food for thought.
A pretty weenie week, obviously, but after the Whidbey Half in April I overdid it and hurt myself, so no reason not to ease back into things. Probably ought to go slow until the hip feels better, right one in particular.
1:38 total. Waverider. |
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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 |
| Rest day. Right groin still sore. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 530 with DG + Fremont to 105th. Still feeling pretty cruddy, left achilles was the star performer this time, sticking today in a way that suggested heel spur, which would explain the weird off-center soreness in the foot. Took forever to warm up then I was running on it OK, but stretching afterwards it was still sticky. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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530 with DG + Fremont to 1005th. Woke up (again) at 3 in the morning, which has been par for the course lately; but this time I tried something new: Gatorade. It works! Fell right back asleep until 5:29 or so. Anyway, my body felt much better with the extra rest. Achilles better, groin still strained but less sore. Didn't have a whole lot of energy (some systems still sleeping?), but we took it slow so that worked fine. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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530 with DG. Clear and super-cold (for Seattle) with black ice all over the place.
So here's a conundrum. Sunday I was totally stuck and couldn't write a word, and Monday morning I felt like my body was going to spew spare parts all over the road. By contrast, the last two days I wrote really well and worked fairly efficiently, and lo and behold my body has felt great. Today the achilles was super, no complaints from the groin, stomach fine. What's up with that? Is it just that I sleep better when the work is moving along? |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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530 with DG + Fremont to 105th. Much warmer out, but I had very low energy this morning. First Law of Thermodynamics in action, I guess. Picked it up some on the last mile. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 6.22 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.22 |
| 530 with DG + Fremont to 105th. Did the outer Greenlake ring today, with one mile at 7:20. Had a nice chat. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 9.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.20 |
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Did a test run from Woodland Park up to DG's place (20 minutes at a relatively easy pace), then twice around Greenlake. Gaggle of new recruits or maybe ROTC were doing a run, and to be honest they looked pretty bad, the first guy came in just as I passed, at 21 minutes for the 2.7 miles. I'm sure in a couple of months though they'd be lapping me in full body armor. We're at war, but these were the first soldiers in uniform (well, Army sweats) tha I've seen in a long time. In Turkey, in Israel, even in Switzerland, when I was working in those places, you saw them all the time. In Kitsap the Navy guys wear civvies when they're off base.
Ran pretty well, I think the first eight miles were about seven. Crapped out on mile nine again, though, for all there wasn't any uphill. No discomfort in the groin this time, but definitely weak. I think. Hangover from the marathon? I actually feel very spry, no soreness or anything. But haven't had a 40 mile week since I started the taper, so I was happy to run on home. Eights or nines next week. |
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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 |
| Rest day, but hiked six miles with a heavy pack. Feet not feeling great. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
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530 with DG. Hooked up on the lake, ran DG back to his place, then did another circuit and a half. Definitely not feeling quite right, whether it was the hike yesterday or poor diet (snacked rather than eating dinner). Couldn't seem to get up to speed, and crapped out at the six mile mark. Right hip/groin quite cranky.
Email from the Moab people came today, looks like I'm in. Good deal. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 8.68 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.68 |
| 530 with DG + lap and a half. Feet were sore to start out, and moving pretty slow, but no serious complaints. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 9.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| 530 with DG. rain rain and more rain. Started out in a drizzle and the drops just got bigger and bigger until one of them whacked me across the face and nearly knocked me out. I think it was intentional. The puddles don't even bear mentioning. I sped up, or tried to, but cold and wet apparently doesn't make my mitochondria feel all warm and fuzzy. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 8.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.30 |
| 530 with DG. Nothing special to report, except that it was more or less dry. Stretched my ITB/hip out good, and the groin pain was a no-show, so that's something. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 9.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.20 |
| 530 with DG. Clear and cold, nothing special to report. Felt moderately fast, but overall time was 1:15ish so we must have plodded for quite a few of those miles.
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 10.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
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Sweet run. Weather was super lousy the last two days as only Seattle in the winter can be, and me fighting a cold, I bailed on Saturday. A new week, though, and a holiday to boot--got up somewhat late at 8:00 and did a big loop around past Northgate. Crisp, clear weather for once, air was orchardish, or orchardian, or maybe orchardist. Cooking dinner Christmas eve, all I had planned in advance was beet greens (I usually build a menu on what's on at the supermarket), but they and the seared steaks and yams came out great.
Slow and easy, 8:25 average. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| I love doing anything outside on Christmas Day morning. Everything is silent, by contrast to the night before, which is, ironically, not silent. Around Greenlake to Ravenmna, then over the hill to the Burke-Gilman Trail, and home via Gasworks Park. No problems, 7:50 average. |
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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 |
| Unplanned rest day. Came straight to work from the folks' place on Bainbridge Island in the early AM and ended up having about four hours of errands after I got home. Wiped. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
| Felt pretty good. Out to Northgate and back around the lake. Average 7:50 for the ten miles, then a cooldown half-mile. The last four before that were around 7:20-7:30. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 9.50 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
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Around the lake and home via Gasworks Park. Felt pretty good, kept them under 8:00 until the last 1.5 mi. A bit of medial right knee soreness at that point. May be time to retire the Nimbi, I'll have to add up the mileage. Average 7:50 for the first 9:00. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 9.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
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Loop da loop, Burke Gilman to Ravenna to Greenlake. Couldn't fall back asleep so at 5:15 I just went for it, despite the weekend, then came home and "napped" for 3 hours till 9:30. The pace and effort were "recovery run grade," I guess. Didn't feel all that great, unsurprisingly. But now the legs are fine. Funny how that works. I'm going to try another week of 5x10 then maybe 6x9 and 6x10 the weeks following.
9:07 average. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| AM - Greenlake. Will try to get in 4 more before heading over for NY. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 157.80 | 0.00 | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 164.80 |
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