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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:

 

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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
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.853.159.00

Very low motivation to run this morning.  I knew that I was going to struggle through this workout.  Warmed up with 2.25 easy miles.  Ran 5 X 0.63 miles (as close to 1,000 meters as I could get on my Garmin) at 5K pace with 1/4 mile jog in between each.  Plan was to run at 6:00/mile pace (3:47/repeat).

 RepeatTime
Pace/Mile
Note
1
3:45
5:57
Just about right
2
3:50
6:05
Way too tired.  This isn't going to be fun
3
3:47
6:00
Felt alright
4
3:41
5:51
Gravity assisted
5
3:46
5:59
Happy to be done
Avg
3:46
5:58


I am a little disappointed with the effort and results today.  It was an odd feeling of fatigue.  I didn't feel completely wiped out but I had a hard time holding my pace.  My heart rate was higher than I expected.  It was around 170 for the first couple of repeats but then was in the 180's on the last couple (peaking at 184).  My calculated max HR is 186 but I suspect my actual max is a little higher.  Finished the run with 2.6 easy miles.

Total Time: 1:08:13 (7:35/mile)
Avg HR: 156

Comments
From Clay Simmons on Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:43:19

Your mile splits were good from where I am looking from, but then my best mile is around 7:00. It still is a good job, sometimes Monday's are hard.

Keep working hard.

From Maria on Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:02:37

Andy, you can set your Garmin to display metric units when needed (I assume you have Forerunner 305). Go to Settings->General->Units and select Metric. It's a bit of a hassle, but useful if you want to do 1-2-3K repeats.

From Andy on Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 14:29:31

Maria,

I actually thought about switching to metric but not until I was in the middle of the run so it was too late to do anything. I only have a 201 but I assume that I can do the same thing.

From Sasha Pachev on Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 14:31:49

The second one could have been long, or uphill. As much as I love my Garmin 305, it is not reliable for speed work.

From RivertonPaul on Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 18:34:30

Keep at it Andy. You're putting in some good work.

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