Of Mice and Marathons

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Location:

Lake Orion,MI,

Member Since:

Dec 28, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs

16:52 Phillies Charities 5k (2016)

35:52 Beach to Beacon 10k (2015)

58:10 Broad Street 10 Mile (2016)

1:16:02 Philadelphia Rock and Roll Half Marathon (2015)

2:46:54 Philadelphia Marathon (2015)

Personal:

I live in Michigan with my wife, Megan, and our boys, Charlie and Sawyer. I started running in September 2010.

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Miles:	This week:	32.70	Month:	57.70	Year:	1986.65
Miles With Megan Lifetime Miles:						613.75
Miles With The Boys Lifetime Miles:						99.90
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Saucony ISO Freedom 3 #2 Lifetime Miles:						253.80
Altra Rivera Lifetime Miles:						357.35
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Active 88 Boulder Lifetime Miles:						5.00
Saucony Freedom 5 Lifetime Miles:						304.80
Saucony Kinvara 13 #2 Lifetime Miles:						310.95
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Kinvara 14 Blue/Grey Lifetime Miles:						64.50
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Nike XC Flats Lifetime Miles:						4.10
Active 88 Boulder Lifetime Miles:						13.10

Tue, Jan 15, 2013

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
7.32	0.00	0.00	3.00	10.32

800m repeats on Rome Drive. 3.2 warm up, drills, and strides. 6 x 800m w/ 2 min slow recoveries. Goal was 3:00-3:05. Reps were 2:58.4, 3:00.1, 3:00.0, 3:00.4, 3:01.6, 2:57.3. Averaged 2:59.63. 3.16 mile cool down home.

Not mind blowing speed obviously, but this is at least a 13-second average improvement from last spring when I started formal speed work.

Newton MV2 Miles: 10.32

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Bam on Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 13:12:19 from 89.126.28.24

Great workout Jason. That's a huge improvement on last year. It's good to compare how you're going against the previous year as you can see how far you've come. It'll be good to see next year's comparison.

From SlowJoe on Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 14:11:27 from 155.219.241.10

That's a great session, nice and consistent too. It definitely helps to stay in touch with those types of paces.

From Jason D on Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 18:06:56 from 24.1.80.94

Thanks, guys.

Bam: Last year my 800 pace was half marathon pace by the end of the year. I am guessing that won't happen this year, but it is possible. I always love to look back over the year and compare.

Joe: Thanks. I'm not sure why I don't run more them because I love nothing more than running fast (say, 5:20 or faster when I am pushing it). I just worry about getting injured.

I looked at my last 800 session that was in July (on a warmish day) and I was doing 3:15ish, which wasn't much faster than what I was doing in March. Later that week my 5k race was about 6:20-6:22. Since I have never run a sub-6 mile, I'd like all of my splits in the next 5k to be sub-6, but we will see.

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