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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
7.900.000.004.500.0012.40

AM: 3.65 because workout in the evening will be long and I have plenty of miles.  Feel GREAT.  Then I took a huge dump halfway through and felt even better.  Henry, bedoukian, you better watch out.

PM: Okay so I thought this workout was gonna be easy but when I reread it I realized the recoveries were half what I thought they were.  It was 6x(600[200],400[100],200[100]) at VO2max pace (which I very optimistically put at 5:20) with no extra recovery between sets.  And on top of that I was really calorie deprived eating just eggs and toast this morning and an apple mid afternoon. I held the pace together by a hair and actually went 1 sec under on almost all of them except 2 of the 600's at 2:02 and 2:01. But I also took an extra 400m recovery after the 3rd and 5th set otherwise I wouldn't have held it.  I do hate VO2max work.  So painful.  Luckily none of it next week but the following week I have 5x1k but at least I get 3min recoveries on those.

Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Henry on Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 19:08:18 from 99.141.74.126

ahaha, drop a few pounds huh :P

From Henry on Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 22:07:51 from 99.141.74.126

that was in reference to the poop :P

anyway, nice workout, ouch lol

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