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Location:

Broken Arrow,OK,United States

Member Since:

Dec 13, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Route 66 Marathon 2012 (3:12:34)

Route 66 Marathon 2010 (3:35:05)

Glow Run 5k Aug 2012 (19:28)

Aquarium Half Marathon 2013 (1:30:17)

Post Oak Lodge Half Marathon Trail Run 2012 (1:46:22)

Aquarium Half Marathon 2011 (1:39:19)

Oklahoma City Memorial Half-Marathon 2010 (1:42:22)

Williams Route 66  Half-Marathon 2009 (1:42:52). 

15k Tulsa Run 1:00:34 (2013) 1:01:48 (2012), 1:05:12 (2010) 1:09:05 (2009), 1:11:37 (2005), 1:14:26 (2004). 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2013 Goals: Qualify for Boston in Oklahoma City on April 28th.  Goal missed. Actual time: 3:20:37.

Qualify for Boston in Tulsa at the Rt. 66 in November.  

PR in the half marathon in Jenks on April 6th.  (Sub 1:30) PR of 1:30:17...close enough! 

Marathon Finish Williams Route 66 2010 (3:35:05)

Run a sub 20 5k  Full Moon 5k 2011, 19:34

Long-Term Running Goals:

Win my age division.  (Alzheimer's 5k 2010, 21:21)

Run a sub 3 marathon

Run an ultra. 

 

Personal:

I'm married to a very supportive, although slightly less enthusiastic runner than I.  Alisha has run a little with me and participated in several 5k's, but mostly she supports me at races.  She ran her first half in November, 2011.  We have a son who was born in 2010, the year that I ran my first marathon.  I participated in my first Triathlon in April 2011.  I think I may have been bitten by the Ironman bug.  Though an Ironman finish is a long term goal, I want to BQ first. 

I find that the more I run the more I want to run.  I consider my self a running addict.  I like the motto: pain is weakness leaving your body.    

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Brooks Cascadia Red Lifetime Miles: 41.39
Barefoot Lifetime Miles: 1.00
Ravenna 2 White/Black Lifetime Miles: 750.54
New Balance 1080 Orange Lifetime Miles: 705.99
New Balance 1080 Blue Lifetime Miles: 524.47
Mizuno Elixir 7 Lifetime Miles: 513.14
Mizuno Sayonara Blue Lifetime Miles: 71.48
Mizuno Sayonara White Lifetime Miles: 42.19
Total Distance
13.01

Hot! Hot! Hot!  It was 83 degrees when I left the house this morning at 6:00 AM.  The 10 day forecast has 102 degree highs every day for the next ten days.  Our summer heat in the Mid-West came early this year.

My time today was 1:48:03 at a pace of 8:18 miles.  I feel as though I am losing a little of my speed from where I was at during April and May at the end of my half marathon program.  I'm not totally worried about it though for two reasons.  I am in the process of increasing my mileage by ten percent per week and I don't want and I don't want to go too hard while also increasing mileage.  I want to get stronger as I go longer.  I also know that the heat has a little to do with my performance.  Running when it's 83 to 86 is a lot harder than running at 52 degrees.  In fact 52 is my PR temperature.  According to my training logs I have more PR runs at or near that temperature than at any other.

I think for this week I'll focus speed work more on my tempo run and at least one of my brick runs.  That should make my weekend long run easier to run faster even in this ridiculous heat.  

I just looked back over my logs and found that although my average pace for my long run is slower than where it was the few weeks preceding my April half marathon, it has steadily been increasing since that same time.  That is to say, since the week after the race where I started clocking slower times, I've been gradually increasing speed since then.  



Brooks Ravenna White/Black Miles: 13.01
Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50Weight: 154.00Calories: 1635.00
Comments
From Burt on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 14:10:28 from 206.19.214.144

I always see my times go up in the winter.

From Daniel Brunson on Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 21:39:41 from 98.184.136.74

I love cooling off period. I have this whole section of consecutive runs week after week in my log that are color coded as PR runs from last Fall. They all happened when the temps fell to the low fifties.

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