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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Tue, Jan 28, 2014
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.500.000.000.009.50

Purdue Co-Rec - 9.5 miles

First race of the season on Saturday. I've done 0 workouts at 5k pace, so it should be interesting. I hope to at least break 20 minutes or I will be very sad. Trying to treat all races other than my half tuneup as workouts and fitness indicators. No expected or guaranteed PRs this spring season. I'll take 1.

Mizuno Musha Miles: 9.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Jake K on Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 15:37:07 from 199.190.170.28

One big juicy marathon PR definitely trumps all the other ones :-)

From Jason D on Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 18:29:56 from 24.1.80.94

And that's the one I want to take! Although a half PR would likely (given the correct diet of long runs and long run + tempo) also give me a marathon PR. BUT 8 weeks to run faster than 5:55 for 13.1 miles seems like a stretch.

Just trying to rebuild a base right now. It's taking many 80 minute runs at 8:20-8:30 pace on the hamster wheel, but a very fine hamster wheel it is :)

Bam, if you are listening, notice what I did there. Hamster wheel, "Of Mice and Marathons," (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

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