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Location:

Preston,Id,USA

Member Since:

Mar 09, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:


2009 TOU Half Marathon 1:25:06

2010 St George Painter's Half Marathon 1:25:24

2011 Jan. St George [Painter's] Half Marathon different course 1:25:28

2011 Apr. Boston Marathon 3:03:24

2011 May Ogden 5K 18:18

2011 July 4th 15K Freedom Run 58:53

2011 July Deseret News 10K 37:12

2011 Oct St George Marathon 2:58:18

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 18 min. 5k

1:24  Half

 Sub 3 at St George in Oct.

Get injury free and stay that way

Set new PRs at all distances now that I'm 50

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

17:30 5K

2:50 marathon

Personal:

I was born in 1960

I started running in 2006

I am married with a 16 year old son [that lives with my wife and I] and a 30 year old step son and 25 year old step daughter
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Tue, May 03, 2011
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.500.000.002.000.008.50

     8.5 total miles this morning. I ran the first 4 at 7:52 pace. I'm planning to run a 5k a week from Saturday and since I haven't done anything faster than 1/2 marathon pace for a while, I decided I had better do something to get my legs moving a little quicker so I did the next 4 miles of fartlek with 4x1/4 miles fast with 1/4 slower between then 2x1/2 fast with 1/2 slower. Followed by another 1/2 mile cooldown. I ran the faster parts between 5:50 and 6:00 ave pace/mile and the slower parts around 7:45 ave pace. 6:52 overall pace for last 4.5 miles and 7:21 overall ave pace/mile for 8.5.

Comments
From I Just Run on Tue, May 03, 2011 at 16:59:01 from 67.79.11.242

Hey Dave,

Thanks for your words of encourgment and advice. Obviously I'm out for recovery for a few day but I'm thinking about running a few 5K's this summer too. My first goal is to bust the 20:00 mark. I see you're going to get into the 17:00's soon....WOW...!

From Dave S on Wed, May 04, 2011 at 17:01:43 from 4.253.102.230

I don't know about the 17s. I'd be happy to get into the 18s or even low 19s on this one.

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