overtaking haynes

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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

Wed, Oct 08, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
5.20	2.00	0.00	0.00	7.20

warmed up with 3.4 miles and then did 2 miles at marathon pace. 6:37 for the first mile and then 6:36 for the second. both miles had a slight net downhill so probably about right ~6:45-6:51 effort if it were flat. cooled down 1.8 miles. Just two more 5 mile days before the marathon. I wonder if it matters at all running a few miles the day before vs. taking the day completely off. psychologically i like the day off and just feel more confident that i am completely rested. not sure if this is logical or not though. the book suggests running 4 miles easy.

i also found out that i got into the mt mitchell challenge in NC which i'm excited about. 40 miles up mt mitchell and back down in february. sounds like a blast!

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Comments

From haynes on Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 22:54:58

so is that 40 miles total or 80 miles total?

I am running 5, 5, and taking saturday off. Frank shorter once said something like "every step you take on the day of a marathon not towards the finish line is wasted". He was referring to the warm up, but I think it is fair to extend that to the 24hrs before the marathon.

From haynes on Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 23:08:11

If you wanna do a long weekend at some point this winter and either run, snowshoe, or cross country ski somewhere I would be up for that. Maybe the adirondacks?

From bedoukian on Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 22:19:28

just 40 miles total for the race. it's mostly on trails which is good. sometimes you need spikes for your shoes because of ice. i'm planning on going hiking in VT or maybe the adirondacks, don't really care the weekend after the marathon if interested. i was leaning toward doing camel's hump and mt mansfield in VT.

a snowshoe in the adirondacks sounds awesome. maybe mt marcy. see you in a couple days. did you decide when you're going to get to albany on sat? i don't know yet for me, probably early afternoon, maybe i'll leave here after lunch time.

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