| 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!
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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 | | 43.50 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 45.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 19.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 19.00 |
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Well, that reeked. Objectives today were (1) 20 miles; (2) sub-8; and (3) negative split. Would have been happy with 2 out of 3. Hit none of them. Hit the turn-around in 1:17, feeling pretty good, but by mile 12 I could tell I was starting to break down mentally when I began to feel massive resentment at the big hills that separated me from home. Splits began to creep up into the 8s, and when I got to the top of the hill above Fay Bainbridge (13.66mi) got it into my head that I had a terrible blister which would make it impossible to run next week if I went any further on it. Stopped dead in my tracks. Took about a mile of walking before I pulled it together, and then I couldn't get above 10:00 pace. So I jogged home at that rate. Longest, most arduous 5 miles ever. Blech.
2:41 2500ft climb. Waverider. |
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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 |
| 530 with DG + Fremont to 125th. Legs felt quite deceased on the off day following last weekend's debacle. Woke up this morning at 4 instead of 515, which didn't help. So I was ready for grimness, and indeed, my head kept saying 'ugh.' "And yet," saith Randall Jarrell, "I find that I've grown used to you..." The head wasn't in it, but the legs took over, they just kept going, and despite myself I had a pretty good run. It was a weird feeling to have the muscles working efficiently when my neural apparatus was (and seems likely to go on being) substandard. But I'll take it. |
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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. Feet quite sore to start out, which is not unprecedented; but although it usually clears up within a mile or so it took much longer today, plus felt some signs of incipient RSI, mostly in the shins. So after a glacial circuit around greenlake (referring to the pace, not the temp, which was balmy) I cut today's run short and decided to make this a lower mileage week. Guess you're supposed to do a few of those. Now ruing those lost three weeks in September. C'est la vie. |
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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 |
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530 with DG + Fremont to 125th. Crystal clear morning: moon and stars and frogs of the deep. Yesterday was a bear. Got up at 6:30 to give two lectures back-to-back in Tacoma, after taking my mother to the ER for a CAT scan the night before. Didn't get home until 8:30 and promptly fell asleep, which was probably a good thing. This all may or may not qualify as a good excuse for missing a run.
Anyway, the layoff seemed to do me good. The fatigue I felt in my shins was gone, my feet were in pretty decent shape, and I felt strong.
Nimbus Orange. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
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a perfect -- tasty -- PSYCHEDELIC -- PM run. I love autumn and Seattle usually has a pretty blah one, but today was sunny and chilly and fine, and the afternoon bit like a perfect Honey Crisp apple. Had some tightness in the right Achilles to start out, stretched at the light and took it easy on the first mi, then settled into a nice loping stride, not straining but moving along at a pretty good clip, sevens or maybe just a skoche faster. Kept it up without undue effort until the theater, at which point, a shoelace infarction. I really like the Nimbus 8s, but for some reason the laces don't stay tied. A double knot later I was more or less home.
Had a look at last Sunday's run on the Garmin: turns out there was 4000ft climb between miles 1 and 14, which probably contributed to my crash. Next week back up above 50, but I may distribute the miles more evenly and add a day depending on how much work I can get done tonight. And we're going on the flats -- Alaskan all the way, baby.
Nimbus orange. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 43.50 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 45.50 |
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