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

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Sun, Feb 07, 2016

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.20	9.00	0.00	0.00	17.20

PM: Flourtown Tempo Loop - 17.2 miles, averaged 7:12. HR 158.

Workout of 3 x 3 miles steady state w/ half mile recovery jog. 3.5 up/3.7 down

Given my tempo last week I thought maybe 6:30 for the first trio, 6:20 for the second, and 6:15 for the third. I ended up running a good deal faster. My watch was slow to respond on current pace (moved increments of 5 second, which was odd) and the average pace jumped around but Strava iron things out a bit and I beleive those to be closer (about 10 seconds slower than Garmin for each three mile segment). In any event, the effort was right: upper 160s to low 170s, which is about what I wanted. I turned off my HR monitor screen because it's all just too much feedback for workouts and you don't need it.

(6:11, 6:09, 6:06) 18:26 (6:09 avg) HR 171

(6:06, 6:13, 6:09) 18:28 (6:09 avg) HR 170

(6:11, 6:11, 6:09) 18:31 (6:10 avg) HR 168

New Balance Zante Miles: 17.00

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Jake K on Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 20:30:11 from 67.166.113.191

There you go. Nice!

From Jason D on Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 18:31:44 from 68.80.27.222

Thanks. I forgot to mention I cheated a little by running the tempo loop in reverse. It's a little faster that way :-)

From allie on Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 18:41:59 from 24.99.46.55

very nice! so consistent. i've only ever done 2x3 and that just about kills me.

From Jason D on Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 18:50:05 from 68.80.27.222

I think if you do 2 x 3 mile at half marathon effort that's a very solid, and challenging, workout. This wasn't quite marathon effort but it is on the harder end of my 8-mile tempo effort. I guess somewhere just beyond marathon pace but not quite half marathon effort.

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