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Location:

Pleasanton,CA,US

Member Since:

May 01, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

1M 4:53.2

5k 17:19 Spring 2009

5M 28:52

10M 59:47 (on way to my half PR)

13.1 1:18:47 2009 New Bedford Half Marathon

26.2 2:57:55 2008 Mohawk Hudson River Marathon

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Train for pacific crest trail thru hike 2017.

Run lots of miles and lose some weight in the process.

DON'T FALL OFF THE WAGON

Extend childhood (at least from fitness perspective) into my mid 40's

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

 

I want to beat my half marathon PR. And if I'm in shape to do that then I should be able to crush my marathon PR.

Personal:

31y/o computational biologist. Hoping to take 5 months off next year to hike the PCT.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.900.000.000.000.005.90

AM: did an hour of eliptical because I felt like my joints needed a break from the pounding. Went decently hard and was sweating like a beast.  Says I burned 900cal but probably not true.

PM: 5.9 + striders + stretches

Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Henry on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 10:51:08 from 12.33.204.66

yea, i probably could up the mileage.. each week is supposed to increase by 5 miles with what i'm currently doing.. unfortunately a lot of this week's mileage is centered around the two long runs (that ended up being in the same week after the saturday/sunday swap).. idk, there'll cooler 5k's in the fall, i'll probably still run CVS and then something sometime after the half maybe, before it gets too cold.

the 5k-15k plan sounds pretty cool.. you'll have to let me know how it's going when you start!

From Henry on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 14:57:08 from 12.33.204.66

i'll talk to jake about it lol. currently sunday is still a 6-7 mile day with the race, so we have like 18-19 miles to do over the two days. i think he will want to try to stay as close to the schedule as possible, although i might try to convince him that the original schedule had an off day before the race and long run after, so we'll see if i can get him to do like 8 saturday and 10? sunday.. idk

From Henry on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 15:06:10 from 12.33.204.66

oh yea, this job! i'm here right now chilling lol.. been working like straight through the days, and i decided i need to break a little more in the middle of the day than i have been.. anyway, besides the commute, i like it. it's a company called avatar that buys products for smaller food and cosmetic companies in bulk, then repackages and sells those products. a lot of it is oils. they also do mixes according to customer recipes to get certain consistancies or whatever. the recipes include various preservatives. currently they buy those externally. so i'm supposed to look into the option of making those preservatives internally by chemical reactions. it's cool stuff lol. unfortunately, i haven't had a real chemical ENGINEERING class, so figuring out the equipment part later will be a little tough, but it'll be ok. i have a lot of freedom (right now i'm the only person on this half of the building) and my supervisor is really nice. i ended up getting my driver's license so i could get here, and my family got a used second car that a family friend will buy from us at the end of the summer. i've actually been getting up at a decently real time too haha, have to leave the house around 8. it's no 5am or whatever lol, but it still kinda sucks :P

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