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Location:

Tarrytown,NY,USA

Member Since:

Jul 20, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

PRs:

400: 53 (97 & 98)

800: 2:01 (98)

1500: 4:17 (98)

5k: 16:35 (08) 16:29 (08)

8k: 28:15 (97)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Goals:

  • Set PRs in 800 & 1500, and break 16:00 in 5k, by end of '09.
  • Stay healthy. 

Upcoming races:

Mon Sep 1: New Haven Labor Day 5k

Sun Sep 21: Fifth Avenue Mile NYC

Sun Nov 9: Tarrytown Pilgrim Run 4M

Thu Nov 27: Manchester Road Race 4.7M

 

 

Personal:

I started training again in early '07 after a long hiatus.  I'm 30 and live in Tarrytown, NY, which is 25 miles north of New York City.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
26.100.000.000.0026.10
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

5M in 39 minutes at RSPP, S/F at Gory Brook.  Ran at 1pm.  Cool at 65 deg.  End HR 135.  Felt a bit sluggish and out of it.

Injury report:

Left achilles:  Having taken 8 days completely off while on vacation, I had hoped it would have felt a little better than it actually did.  Not really sore but stiff and I could feel it.  Will try to run through it till end of November and at the same time try to determine and fix the underlying source of the problem.

 

Other:  Right achilles also stiff.  Right forefoot sore.  Knees crackly, probably from hard bike ride Saturday. 

+ weights (upper body routine)

Triax: 107

Adistar: 53

Cumulus: 301

Glycerin: 34.3

NB 826: 9

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.700.000.000.004.70

4.7M in 35 minutes to Irvington and back.  Ran at 3pm.  70 and sunny.  No problems cardiovascularly, but legs felt sort of weird like I was off-balance the whole time.  Running felt unnatural, like I was doing it for the first time.  The sensation wore off as the run went on.

Injury report:

Left achilles:  Not that bad.  It is stiff and sore mainly down where it connects to the heel.

Right achilles:  Stiff, not really painful.

Right forefoot:  Sore and tender the whole way, right on the ball of the foot down from the big toe.  Worse than yesterday.

+ weights (lower body routine)

Triax: 107

Adistar: 53

Cumulus: 301

Glycerin: 39

NB 826: 9

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.700.000.000.004.70

Similar run to yesterday, but felt better.  Legs felt looser and more fluid; stride was smoother.  I think I may have been limping some the last 2 days.

4.7M in 34:30 minutes to Irvington and back.  Ran at 4:30 pm.  70 and sunny and breezy.  End HR 145. 

Injury report:

Left achilles:  Better than yesterday.  Not really bothersome today at the slow pace.

Right achilles:  Stiff, not really painful.  Not really an issue.

Right forefoot:  A little better than yesterday.

+ weights (upper body routine)

Triax: 107

Adistar: 57.7

Cumulus: 301

Glycerin: 39

NB 826: 9

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.200.000.000.005.20

5.2M in 39:18 at RSPP, S/F Gory Brook.  Ran at noon.  Sunny but cool.  Easy pace.  Slowly getting back into it.

Injury report:

Left achilles:  Same as yesterday, not really an issue.

Right forefoot:  A little better than yesterday.

Planning to race the 5th Ave Mile tomorrow.  Can't expect a great performance, and probably not smart injury-wise, but I really want to do the race.  And the reason we train is to race, right?

Triax: 107

Adistar: 57.7

Cumulus: 306.2

Glycerin: 39

NB 826: 9

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.500.000.000.006.50

5th Avenue Mile today - my heat at 10:15am.  Got up around 7 and jogged for maybe 12 minutes, mostly around the dirt track at the grade school.  Easily the coldest morning of the Fall out there today - could see my breath and my hands got cold.

Did all my normal pre-race routine and walked down to the train station to catch the 8:39 train into the city.  Very crowded for a Saturday morning with a lot of Wall St. types getting on.  Evidently everyone that still has a job is working weekends now.

Got off at Harlem 125th St station just after 9 and started my warm-up down to 80th St, which is about 2.5 miles.  The first 15 or 20 blocks go through some semi-rough neighborhoods (well, what passes for "rough" in Manhattan, the safest big city in the nation, these days - they are slowly getting gentrified) until you get to Central Park and all the expensive apartment buildings start.  I wouldn't run through that part of town at night, but on a Saturday morning, it's a non-issue.

Around 85th St by the Met I started looking for the registration tent. Couldn't quite figure out why 5th Avenue wasn't shut off to traffic yet, or where the hordes of other runners warming up were.  Got down to 80th St, the race start, and really began to get confused.  Where was everyone?  I thought the heats started around 9, and it was pushing 9:30.

I ran into the park and onto the loop road.  Tons and tons of joggers and cyclists out on this beautiful morning but not many that looked like they were warming up for a mile.  I was started to get a little panicked.  I couldn't find the registration tent, and I wasn't going to have enough time to get changed, hit the porta-john, do strides, etc.  Finally I called my wife.  In about 3 seconds she had found the Web site and started looking for packet pickup instructions:  "...Packets may be picked up on race day, Sunday September 21, at the tent..." 

What the deuce?  Sunday, September 21st?  When I registered several weeks ago, the race was on Saturday!  I know this for a fact because I had originally planned to run the 5th Ave Mile on Saturday and a 5k on Sunday, but had decided to forget the 5k.  How had I not gotten word that they changed the race day?!?!

I didn't have much choice but to turn around and run back to 125th St and get back on the train outta town.  Wearing my backpack stuffed with my racing flats, water, and gear, I probably looked like I was training for boot camp.  Got home and felt pretty tired and deflated.  Ego slightly bruised, but trying to be philosophical about it.

Turns out I received 2 emails this week from NYRR (which I read) that gave the race date as Sunday, but there was nothing highlighting the fact that the date had changed.  Looks like they just quietly erased 20 and replaced it with 21.  (Probably the city or NYPD made them change it due to traffic coneerns or logistics or what have you.)  But it goes to show, even if contrary information is right before your eyes, you tend to ignore it if it goes against what you think to be true.  I believe psychologists call this "confirmation bias" because people tend to seek out information that confirms rather than challenges their existing beliefs.

Total of 6.5M of warm-up and warm-down for a nonexistent race.  No time, pace, or HR information recorded!

Triax: 107

Adistar: 63

Cumulus: 306.2

Glycerin: 39

NB 826: 9

 


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