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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

Sun, Apr 10, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
17.80	0.00	0.00	0.00	17.80

Well, what a difference a day makes. A couple rounds of antibiotics does not hurt either. I am still not 100% but maybe 90%. I woke up around 6:10 and was on the road at 6:35 am. It was warm and windy but the clouds were out so that helped later on. Reminded me of the Austin marathon. I also read that running at a 6 minute mile pace generates an 11 mph head wind. (Daniel's Running Formula) Not sure what it is at other paces but the point when running into a wind a runner runs against the force of the wind plus the self generated wind. I suppose this is why when running with the wind at your back you don't feel it as much since you are running away from it - so if a runner is running 7 mph and the wind from behind is 15 mph then is the runner only getting an 8 mph push? Seems right to me since when the wind is at my back it never feels as strong as when running into the wind.

I don't have my Garmin as I left it in the office. I figured I would run using my wrist watch as an estimate of how far I had run vs. time. In the end it worked well. I had an idea of the pace as I was running well. I knew I was running at a good clip around miles 8-9 as I passed some other runners that I had seen in the distance with ease.

The last couple miles were a struggle. I did not eat anything and did not take anything with me but water. I knew that my glycogen stores were empty or quite near. I did this purposely in order to train my body to run at a fast pace while using fat stores as fuel.

I came home and used mapmyrun.com to map out my course - it said I ran 17.8 miles. My time on the road was 2:08:00 and using the cool running pace calculator my over all pace was 7:12. Seems fast and it is an estimate, but I knew I was going at a pretty good clip.

Kinvaras - Yellow Miles: 17.80

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

Comments

From Dan on Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 23:56:04 from 24.209.83.20

Nice run! Glad you (and me!) are on the upswing as far as feeling better. My Garmin Battery has died so I am using a stop watch for a few...

From flatlander on Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 09:31:19 from 76.31.26.153

Glad you are out and at it again. Your math is exactly right as I understand it.

From SlowJoe on Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:55:01 from 184.79.24.255

Great pace and stamina. You are right on about the wind (I think about wind a lot here in Abilene). My opinion is a headwind hurts about twice as much as a tailwind helps.

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