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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,

Member Since:

Nov 14, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

50k:  4:59 at Buffalo Run in 2010  (32 miles)

Marathon:  3:01 at St. George in 2009!

Half:  1:29 at Painter's/ St. George in 2009.  1:27 at Salt Lake in 2009 (aided course)

10k: 40:53 Greek Festival 10k at Sugar House park in 2010.

5miles: 32:10 Dam 2 Dam in 2009.  Master's winner.

5k: 20:00:00  19:54 in May 2010.

2008:  Ran the Slam + Boston

I need to update this!

Short-Term Running Goals:

Carpe Diem.

Don't trip over my own feet.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running.

Personal:

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1 girl child

1 boy child

1 big dog

1 little dog

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Tue, Sep 08, 2009
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.500.000.004.5011.00

11 miles w/ 6x 1200m intervals @ 5k pace, 2 min recovery.  The good- my ankle was fine. I iced it the morning and took 400 mg ibuprofen before breakfast, about 5 hours before my run.  The bad- I was just sucking wind on this run.  I don't get it.  I took Sunday off.  I ran easy paces yesterday.  I got enough sleep.  I ate a decent breakfast.  Yet, I was dogging!  Friday during my long run I was cruising and felt strong.  Today I felt like a big turd.  So what was different today?

0.75 mile intervals:

1-6.09, 167bpm;

2-6.22, 169bpm;

3-6.21, 169bpm;

4-6.22, 168bpm

5-6.27, 166bpm

6-6.31, 167bpm

ave 6:22.  this is 6 seconds slower than when I did a similar workout a couple weeks ago.  Yet my pace miles on Friday were 7 seconds per mile faster than a few weeks ago (and at a lower heart rate).  Argh!!

Comments
From Smooth on Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 16:45:54 from 71.36.81.201

Hmmm, I'm stumped on that one! You did all the right things by the book. May be it's just an off day or a leveling out day. Keep up the good work though; I'll bet you'll see improvement in your next key workout!

From Kelli on Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 16:58:41 from 71.219.97.42

That made me laugh. I often feel like a big turd.

Who knows what gives, maybe it was just the tilt of the earth?!?

From timp on Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:05:17 from 129.188.33.26

great news about the ankle.

Sorry you had a tough workout, but that's the way athletics is. Sometimes you just have an off day.

Great effort to ride it out and finish the set.

From Teena on Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 17:33:59 from 67.177.20.13

Looks AWESOME to me!!!

(If you ever figure out running ... let me know!)

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