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, Sep 30, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
5.00	0.00	0.00	3.00	8.00

did a workout from pfitzinger....was supposed to be done on a thursday but my schedule is a little bit off. during the warmup 9 min miles didn't feel so great and i wondered if i should take another day off before doing 3x1 mile at 5k race pace. but i hate not finishing what i planned for the day and i decided to go for it and just take the times i got. i glommed on a ton of vaseline and body glide on my feet to try and prevent the 2 week blister again and it worked. Did 6 striders before i started and felt miserable. Mile 1 (really only 1600)...first lap i went out in an 80 and was already winded...i apparently had a fear of being weak and slow...the 80 did not feel easy. settled down and ran a 90sec 2nd lap and finished the first mile in 5:42. 5k race pace back in may would be 5:43 so surprisingly good. 2 min recovery and then i ran a 5:45....2 min recovery, 5:47. Started to slow each lap slightly but know i could have held if i had someone there with me. Wasn't terribly hard. Probably the last vo2 before the marathon. will do lots of striders and a couple marathon pace miles.

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Comments

From haynes on Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 19:54:41

last one? It probably doesn't matter but I'm doing 2 (one tomorrow and one on sunday) and 2 threshold workouts (one on friday and one next tuesday). I am gonna turn down the intensity of the workouts a little bit too just because I have probably been going too hard up until now. My vo2max stuff im gonna slow down to 5:36 pace and my threshold stuff I am gonna slow down to 6 pace. Other than that I am gonna keep it easy 45-50 miles this week and 30-35 next week.

From bedoukian on Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 22:29:29

i know you can't help yourself...i'm going to really focus on stretching i think...maybe i'll do another one on thursday...like pfitzinger calls for the workout i did on thurs instead of tues which was supposed to be more recovery. then on tues next week just 2 miles at marathon pace in a 7-10 mile workout, i can't remember.

From haynes on Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 15:19:35

BTW, it looks like you are getting some of your speed back. Good. People always say that you don't need speed for the marathon, but I think that the further your marathon pace is from your shorter distnce race paces the more likely you will be able to maintain it.

Ive been looking at the forcast already (still not 10 days out) but its looking pretty good with highs in the low to mid 60's and lows in the mid 40's. It has been going back and forth on rain or no rain but currently it looks dry. I have been pretty unlucky this season for race weather so far but this is where it matters so hopefully it will come together.

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