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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

Sun, Oct 14, 2012

Total Distance

18.01

Pace run. PR! Yeah baby! 62 degrees, 74%. 7:19 AP.

I beat my previous 18 mile PR by 6 whole minutes exactly to the second. I ran a half marathon somewhere in this run in 1:33:27, which beat my half marathon race PR time of 1:39:19. I ran a 15K somewhere within this run in 1:06:11, which just barely missed my 15k race PR of 1:05:29. That race by the way is coming up in two weeks. Now that I have this run accomplished I aim to smash that previous 15K race record.

I also achieved PR's in the 10 mile (1:11:04) and 20k (1:28:34) distances according to strava.

First 4 miles: 7:58 AP, last 14 miles: 7:07. My goal was to run the last 14 at my goal marathon pace of 7:15. I am quite happy that I averaged 7:07. It really helps to know your course as I know these trails near my home. I made sure to bank as many miles under my goal pace as I could on the portions that I knew to be relatively flat. This way I knew that if I needed to clock a few miles slower than 7:15 on the hillier parts coming up near the end, then my overall AP would still make 7:15. As it turned out I was able to make 7:15 or better on all but two miles, and those two were 7:21 and 7:16.

I am feeling great about my training and all of the work I have put in.

Now I'm looking forward to a relaxing Sunday, and going to see the long awaited Atlas Shrugged Part II later. It's going to be an awesome day!

Split	Time
Summary	2:11:48.7
1	8:05.6
2	8:08.6
3	7:54.8
4	7:46.9
5	7:08.6
6	7:11.8
7	7:15.1
8	7:04.0
9	7:07.0
10	6:59.6
11	6:57.5
12	7:06.2
13	7:08.6
14	7:21.1
15	7:00.1
16	7:09.2
17	7:16.4
18	7:05.8
19	:01.8

Ravenna 2 White/Black Miles: 18.01

Night Sleep Time: 5.50	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 5.50	Weight: 149.00	Calories: 1946.00

Comments

From SlowJoe on Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:03:10 from 69.131.141.92

Holy cow, you are getting a lot faster! The last 14 @ 7:07 is pretty impressive - BQ pace is only 7:03, right? Route 66 could be epic for you.

From Daniel Brunson on Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:36:27 from 68.14.174.169

Joe! I'm so glad you read my blog. I completely forgot that the BAA lowered the qualifying time from 3:10 to 3:05. Man I feel dumb! I've been training for the old 3:10 time. When I looked it up earlier this year I must have been looking at an old table or something. I actually remembered that they tightened the standard, but I think I must have only remembered that they did away with the :59 second grace period.

The sad thing is that I started this plan training on a 7:00 goal pace to build in a little buffer, but in the heat of the summer I got discouraged when I fell short on a couple of runs. As result I started training at the easier 7:15 pace.

This doesn't change that I've made good progress. Maybe with 5 weeks to go I can dial it up a notch and get within range. Thank you.

From SlowJoe on Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 16:43:53 from 69.131.141.92

Last summer when they changed it, it was right as I felt like I was in finally in 3:10 shape...jerks! So I feel your pain.

I wouldn't sweat it though - the best thing you can do is train at your current fitness level, which it seems like you are doing perfectly. Running extra fast to "train for a 3:05" wouldn't have made a difference, I don't think. Maybe test out a 7:00 pace if you have another MP run left and see how it feels. I definitely think it's within you to hit a 3:05 as long as you don't force it.

From Daniel Brunson on Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 19:26:50 from 68.14.174.169

Unfortunately I don't think I have any pace runs left. I've decided that I at least need to make sure my MLR's and LR's are being run no slower than 10% slower than 7:00 AP for the last 10 miles or so. Maybe I'll pick one of them and make a pace run out of it.

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