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Location:

Woods Cross,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 01, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Current Running Life:
5k: 17:50 (2010 NSL)
10k: 38:20 (2007 Des News)
1/2 Marathon: 1:23:30 (2009 Provo Half)
Marathon: 2:53:46 (2007 St George)

Short-Term Running Goals:

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

 

Personal:

Daddy to 3 great kids - 16 year old son and 11 year old twin daughters

I do not know what tomorrow will bring but I do know it will start with a run.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Grid A2 Lifetime Miles: 125.40
GoRun2 Lifetime Miles: 53.70
Adrenaline 2014 Blue (1) Lifetime Miles: 442.70
Adrenaline 2014 Red (1) Lifetime Miles: 429.20
Mon, Aug 07, 2006
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Due to my modified running gait, I am now experiencing pain in my gastrocnemius. It hurts while walking now. Have decided to take this week completely off. St George is my goal race so I would rather take some time off now. I am going to run Park City and TOU very conservatively just so that I can finish the grand slam.

Like alot of people that started running in the current boom, I skipped all the baby steps to get to the marathon and jumped right into the big daddy. I think that, going forward, I am going to focus on shorter races (5K-1/2 marathon) and improve on those. My body is just not responding to marathon training the way that I expected it to.

Comments
From Brent on Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 21:33:34

Andy, I have ran three marathons this year and training for St. George, the training has caught up to me also, I am taking a week or so off to recover. It is tough at any age to run 5 marathons. Good luck at ST. George, the big daddy. B of BS Rools out.

From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:15:33

Make sure to cross-train while your taking time off - swim, bike, weight-lift.

Good idea to focus on improving your 5K speed. This is what appears to be a hold back for you right now. There is still some room for improvement in the area of carrying the 5 K speed to the marathon, but you are pretty close to maxing it out already. However, you do not carry your sprint speed to the 5 K nearly as well, which in turn does leave much to carry past the 5 K.

A good 5 K training (long-distance as opposed to middle-distance approach) actually prepares you for the marathon quite well. Especially for you, once your 5 K improves dramatically, a couple of months of marathon-focused training will allow you to run a huge PR in the marathon as well.

From Evan on Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 17:19:08

I signed up for the Grand Slam too. I also ran the Bonneville Shoreline Trail Marathon and the Boston this year. I have about 800 miles in this year so far and, I think it is catching up with me now. My right calf is sore now. I slowed way down recently. Think I will pull the bike out of storage.

Somebody sent me this yahoo group info.

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/Utah_running/

From Sasha Pachev on Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 14:30:48

Evan:

I think what is catching up is trying to do the Grand Slam + others off only 800 miles this year so far. In my opinion, to be successful/injury free in doing multiple marathons close together you need to run at least 300 miles a month consistently and get to the point where you are comfortable with this training volume.

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