overtaking haynes

Wapack Trail Race

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Location:

Redding,CT,USA

Member Since:

May 11, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

1M: 4:57.9 (May 21, 2008)

5k: 17:45 (2008)

5M: 29:11 (2008)

1/2 marathon: 1:24:38 (2005, 2008)

Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim 50+ miles (2005)

50M trail race 11:12 (2005) san juan solstice 6th place

50M trail race Zane Grey Highline trail race (2006)

52M trail race bighorn trail run (2006)

Wapack 50 (2007) 2nd place

Goretex Transalpine run finisher 8 day stage race (2007)

laugavegur ultramarathon (2008) in iceland (55km) 7th place

mount mitchell challenge 40m trail race 2009 10th place
Ironman 11:37 (2001) Ironman lake placid

Easily beating Haynes by 8:45+ in back to back trail races over 12 miles! (2008) and also the marathon by less than 1 sec :)

Mohawk Hudson River Marathon 2:57:53 (2008)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 2:50 marathon

Sub 1:20 half marathon

Sub 17 minute 5k

Long-Term Running Goals:

Have the courage to enter and finish a 100 mile trail race.

Sub 2:40 marathon! but i can't say i expect to ever run that fast.

Win any race with over 100 entrants in it.

Personal:

Triple majored in chemical physics, philosophy, and biology.

PhD in biomedical science

Was doing aging research but for now switching to chemistry and am planning to write a science fiction novel.

First year I have trained properly, 2nd year of being serious about running.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Brooks GTS Racer Lifetime Miles:						169.70
Puma Trailfox 3 Lifetime Miles:						157.00

Sun, Aug 31, 2008

Race: Wapack Trail Race (17.5 Miles) 00:02:53, Place overall: 6, Place in age division: 1

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.50	17.50	0.00	0.00	18.00

Woke up at 4:20am to get to this race on time...Was initially excited that none of the really killer fast guys were there and I had beaten all the people at least once this year who ended up beating me so I was disappointed that I was 15 min back, 5 mins at the turnaround. I just didn't have it today. The worst was getting passed at the end by a 54 yr old. He has now beaten me in the two longer races but I can barely take him in shorter races. He ran a 2:51 marathon at Boston last year and he is clearly better than me in endurance right now. He also weighs 113lbs. Oh well...at least I beat Haynes :)

I think the race every weekend is starting to take it's toll on me. 22 mile race then a 14 mile than a 17.5 mile and then this week a marathon trail race which doesn't look easy by the elevation profile. I was hoping that everyone is going to do the 50k the week after since this is the first year of the marathon. If only the 5 or so people that beat me every week aren't there i have a chance to win...although my running prowess is not there right now....

Haynes and i decided to switch to a marathon with a net 370ft elevation loss in order to get better marathon times...i'm beginning to worry that breaking 3hrs isn't going to be as easy as i originally thought after 4 months of track workouts earlier in the year.

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Comments

From haynes on Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:38:40

Don't get too down. If you think about it, we are only slightly worse than we were at the end of last season with all that track work. We just need to string together a month of good training. It doesn't need to be 70+mpw. It just needs to have workouts or races almost every other day. Today I am planning on doing a little speed with tons of recovery fartlek style. It seems stupid, but I like my vo2max pace to feel slow. Then tomorrow I will do a 5x1k workout and then have a recovery day before the wrentham trail race. Assuming I am not destroyed by that I will do 2 vo2max workouts next week. The next weekend there is a 30k road race in ma that I am thinking of doing. After that there is either another 30k or the providence downtown 5k (which at this point seems questionable that I could PR at but could be a good workout). Then there is the hogsback half and then the taper.

From josse on Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 23:42:15

You sure do race alot. What marathon did you two switch to?

From haynes on Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 00:00:02

Yeah, I do race a lot during a season. But I wouldn't say that all of those races are 100% efforts. Most of them are 90-95% effort. The races that I intend to go all out on this fall are the half marathon and the full marathon and the 5k if it is pretty cold (

From bedoukian on Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 21:58:50

Hey Josse! Nice to hear from you again...the marathon is called the Mohawk-Hudson River Marathon.

From josse on Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 22:42:24

Can't wait to see what both of you do.

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