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

Tue, Dec 09, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.25	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.25

Decided to try running at a local h.s. track. It's odd that i didn't even consider this until someone at work suggested this when i was telling him of my animal encounter stories. The track isn't lit but there are enough peripheral lights that it is fine. There is also a cluster of fields that you can do an outer loop of for about 0.6 miles when the track gets boring. There is even a road loop of about 0.75 miles within the school complex which can mix things up.

Ran 2 miles easy in under 16 min! that's a first in a long time. I even stretched...the track promotes good running behavior. I then ran around the track and the fields which were much darker than the track. I was about a minute over 8 min/mile pace after about mile 8 until i came back to the track and there was now this guy running fairly hard and i ran the opposite direction and we were kind of deadlocked with pace both running in the outer lane. I started pushing it slightly to try and gain ground and this guy obviously did too. This went on for about 1.5 miles and i was not really gaining anything despite speeding up, but then the guy disappeared. It was good to finish in 1hr 19 minutes the 10 miles. My legs were really right so i stretched some more. did 4x100m striders and then stretched again.

Running around tracks and fields gives my little toe blisters though which is a large negative. Need new running shoes...i ordered them today.

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