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Location:

Austin,TX,USA

Member Since:

Feb 02, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

2008 Austin Marathon - 4:12

2008 Dallas Marathon: 3:30 (8 months later)

2010 Austin Marathon - 3:24 (bonked at 25 - 12 minute last mile run/walk)

2010 Steamtown Marathon - 3:27 (quads killed on the down hills)

2011-Feb Austin Marathon - 3:17 (finally BQ'd!)

2011-June Marathon to Marathon, IA - 3:07 (BQ'd by 13 minutes!)

2011-Dec CIM - 3:02

2012-April Boston Marathon - 4:03

2013-April Boston Marathon - 3:06

2008 Austin 3M half marathon: 1:43:00

2009 Austin 3M 1/2 Marathon: 1:29:50

2011 San Antonio Half - 1:25 (100% humidity fun fest)

2010 Chuy's 5k - 19:19

2011 Chuy's 5k - 18:23

2012 Chuy's 5k - 18:25

2012 RFTW 5k - 18:05 - PR!

2009 Austin Capitol 10k: 41:50

2011 Austin Capitol 10k: 38:57

2012 IBM Uptown Classic 10k - 37:52 - PR!

Short-Term Running Goals:

~~BQ at Austin Marathon - 2/20/2011~~ Tough course, warm and humid - but I did it.

~~Break 3:10 in a fall marathon (TBD)~~ 3:07 at Marathon to Marthon

~~Break 40:00 in a 10k~~ 38:57 @ Cap10k 2011

~~New: Break 3:05 @ CIM on December 4th, 2011~~ 3:02

~~Break 38:00 in a 10k~~ - Done - 37:52 @ IBM Classic

Break 18:00 in a 5k - 18:05 @ RFTW - October 2012 - getting close!

2011 RACES:

~~Run for the Water 10 mile - 10/30/2011~~ 1:04:06

~~San Antonio 1/2 Marathon - 11/13/2011~~

~~California International Marathon - 12/4/2011~~

2012 Fall Races

IBM Uptown Classic 10k - 37:53

Run For the Water 5k - 18:05

2013

Boston Marathon - 3:06

2014

Boston Marathon - April 21 - 3:11

2016

Rookie Tri - May 1st

Peak to Creek Marathon - Oct 29th

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run a sub 3:00 Marathon

Personal:

Der Hammer is a nick name I picked up from my German friends while living in Germany. My real name is David.

I have been running seriously since March 2007. I started with a local running group called "Gilbert's Gazelles". Before that I had run a couple 5k's (26:00's) and never run more than 3 miles at one time. I have lost about 40 pounds in a little over 2 years.

I am 45 years old, married and have 2 children, ages 5, girl, and 10, boy. I try to keep my running from interfering with my family as much as possible, e.g. getting up at 5 am. However, Saturdays are long run days and I don't come home until around 9 am or so. I owe my family a debt of gratitude for allowing me to pursue this passion.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Hoka One One Lifetime Miles:						152.00
Saucony Ride 7's - Blue Lifetime Miles:						345.97
Hokas Red Lifetime Miles:						127.25
Brooks Launch Lifetime Miles:						151.75

Tue, Mar 20, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
14.75	0.00	0.00	2.25	17.00

AM - 4 inches of rain last night - lots of lightning and rain when I woke up. So off to the gym, 10 miles on the indoor track. This really isn't too bad with music and getting into a zone.

Will be going on at lunch for 6 more.

I think I will finally take a day off tomorrow - we are doing a tempo run on the hills Thursday. Would like to get to 6 miles of tempo pace.

PM - I was really on the fence about what to do for lunch. I ultimately decided on some 400's to work on turnover/speed. I did not over do-it since 1) I had run 10 miles already and 2) I only had an hour to squeeze this in. I ran over to the 1/2 mile trail loop and did some warm up laps, and then did 9 x 400m on the crushed granite portion. After a couple I decided to turn this into a Fartlek style workout but running the other half of the loop - which is covered in wood chips - as recovery. This took about 2 minutes so it worked out great and allowed me to add to my mileage at the same time. I did not rest but kept this up as a continuous loop - 400m hard, 400m recover, repeat. I set up the distance alert on the Garmin so I would run the correct distance. It was hard to keep consistent on the trail so my lap times varied a bit but I managed to start hitting them on the last few.

9 x 400m 1:30 (first couple) down to 1:23 on crushed granite trail with 400m active recovery.

Easy pace back to the office - 7 miles total.

As a side note I reached in my gym bag to grab my kinvaras and they weren't there, fortunately I had the A5's. I hit a couple puddles on the way back - bad thing about the A5's is that they have holes in the soles - but that is also a good thing, too, because the water drains back out.

Kinvaras - Black - Neon Green Miles: 10.00	Saucony A5 Miles: 7.00

Night Sleep Time: 0.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 0.00	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From I Just Run on Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 14:03:18 from 67.79.11.242

My indoor track is called a Treadmill ... or Dreadmill as Steam likes to call it! Thrusday should be great running weather :-)

From Steam8 on Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 19:52:22 from 166.70.55.77

I don't know how you do it! Boston will be nothing for you! You have got to be in amazing shape!

I've heard crazy weather in Texas this week. Stay safe and away from the flash floods!

From Dan on Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 21:40:18 from 24.209.83.20

Thats a lot of rain! Good deal on the A5's. I'm with Steam- you are going to crush Boston. Just wait an hour at the finish line for me. You sure der hammer is German? Might be Kenyan

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