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Location:

Durham,NC,USA

Member Since:

Feb 13, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

PRs:

5K - 0:20:46 (2007)

5M - 0:36:39 (2008)

10K - 0:43:04 (2008)

1/2 Marathon : 1:37:46 (2009)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Improve my 1/2 marathon time. Finish a marathon.

Long-Term Running Goals:

BQ

Personal:

I'm a college professor (Economics). I'm married to Galit and we have 3 kids: Guy (8.5), Liam (5), Maya (3.5). Time goes by too fast...

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Total Distance
6.50

8:45AM 77F 80% humidity. Speed work on Duke's tracks. Conditions were brutal. Humidity was awful. My plan was to do 6 times 800 meters with 400m rest. I am glad to say I survived it and did very well for the conditions at hand. Also they were working on the field and part of lane 1 was blocked so each round was actually longer than 400m but I'll count them as 400m. The 6 intervals were at 3:25, 3:28,3:25, 3:27, 3:28, 3:28 which I think is pretty good. Above all I didn't fade at the last 2 intervals (but my 400m in between got slower).

0:52:42

Here are the full splits:

  1M @ 8:07 (warm up)
 .5M @ 3:25
.25M@ 2:17
 .5M @ 3:28
.25M@ 2:26
 .5M @ 3:25
.25M@ 2:16 (+water break)
.5M @ 3:27
.25M@ 2:39
 .5M @ 3:28
.25M@ 2:36 (+water break)
 .5M @ 3:28
.25M@ 2:45
  1M @ 8:55 (cool down)

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
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