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Preston Halloween 5k

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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
32.100.002.162.007.0043.26
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

      Ran 7 miles at 8:34 pace. Just keeping it short and easy. Everything felt good today.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.500.000.000.000.006.50

     Ran 6.5 miles. Kept it real easy again. Everything is feeling good at the moment. I had some snow flurries for most of the run but it cleared up at the end.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.500.000.000.000.004.50

      Another short easy run. 4.5 miles. 8:25 AP.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.100.000.001.000.008.10

     The temp was 22 deg this morning but I ran a little later after the sun had warmed things up to around 30. I ran 8 miles and kept the pace easy until the last 2 miles where I ran 4x1/4 fast with 1/4 slow in between. I averaged around 5:40 pace on the faster 1/4s. Overall ave pace for 8 was 7:47.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.007.007.00

     20 miles mt bike.

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Race: Preston Halloween 5k (3.16 Miles) 00:19:39, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.002.161.000.0010.16

     This morning I decided to run a local 5k. I don't feel like I'm in race shape for any distance. My training since the marathon 6 weeks ago has been very lacking while I've been keeping it easy to work through some lingering injuries. Being a first time local race I wouldn't have been surprised to only have a few show up. The woman putting it on works with my wife and the race was a fundraiser for special olympics and she has 2 kids that compete so I thought I should support them. I was surprised to see that they ended up with 80 to 100 participants. It was about 33 degrees at start time. I had gone knowing there likely wouldn't be any competition and thought I would just be getting in a nice tempo run. 

    After a 2 mile warmup, the race started and I had 3 or 4 kids running ahead of me. I figured they would last less than 1/4 mile but was surprised when 2 of them were still keeping the pace after 1/2 mile where I was at 6:00 pace and they were running about 15 yards ahead of me. We all must have slowed and hit the first mile in 6:17. As we got near the turn around I passed one of them and caught up to the lead kid. I talked with him a bit and found out he was a freshman at Grace High School and he had just missed qualifying for state in cross country by 2 places. The state meet was today. We hit the second mile in 6:22 and continued running side by side most of the way to the finish. I picked the pace up a little more toward the end of the 3rd mile and he wasn't about to let me go. With about .2 to go I picked it up a lot more and he finally dropped back. I finished the 3rd mile in 6:11 and the last .16 at 5:09 pace. This was the same course they do the biathlon on and I have measured it with my bike computer that is very accurate and get 3.16 miles. It was fun to have some competition and I'm sure it motivated me to run a little faster than I probably would have otherwise. For first place I won a very nice Nike sports duffel bag that had a 40.00 price tag on it so turned out to be a worthwhile morning.

     After getting home I ran another 5 to make it 10 for the day.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
32.100.002.162.007.0043.26
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