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
Altra Rivera (Dark Blue) Lifetime Miles:						145.10
Saucony Kinvara 13 Lifetime Miles:						465.10
Saucony Endorphin Pro Lifetime Miles:						287.00
Active 88 Boulder Lifetime Miles:						5.00
Saucony Freedom 5 Lifetime Miles:						304.80
Saucony Kinvara 13 #2 Lifetime Miles:						310.95
Saucony Endorphin Pro White Lifetime Miles:						23.40
Kinvara 14 Blue/Grey Lifetime Miles:						64.50
Saucony Ride Teal Lifetime Miles:						23.40
Saucony KInvara 14 Yellow Lifetime Miles:						12.40
Nike XC Flats Lifetime Miles:						4.10
Active 88 Boulder Lifetime Miles:						13.10

Fri, Mar 01, 2013

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.13	0.00	6.20	0.00	18.33

AM: Ks on the Heritage Trail/golf course. 3.25 miles up and down. 10 x 1k w/ 1:30 recovery jogs. I usually leave the golf course after a LT workout with peacock feathers sprouting from my split shorts. Today I had donkey ears like King Midas sprouting out from under my tuke. This workout was very hard. I tried to bail after about repeats 5 or 6, but kept going. I didn't think it would be that much different than the other (I THOUGHT) comparable LT workouts I have been doing. Managed the last two repeats with a decent final effort. The last 2-3 were definitely end of race effort. Once I got moving on my cool down I felt better about the workout.

14.1 miles total. Averaged 3:52 or slightly under 6:15 pace for the repeats.

PM: North side - 4.2+ shake out, averaged 8:31

Newton MV2 (Black) Miles: 14.10	Newton Trainer 5 Miles: 4.23

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From SlowJoe on Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 11:42:29 from 155.219.241.10

You just had an off day. I'm thinking that's normally going to be a very doable workout for you. Important thing is you got that training stimulus and can move on and recover.

From Jason D on Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 20:11:23 from 24.1.80.94

Thanks, Joe. I think I just didn't have it today. This is only slightly faster than my 6 x 1 mile w/ 2 min recovery two weeks ago and that felt much easier. I figure they workouts should be equivalent. I was thinking 6:00-6:10 pace. Wrong. Goo luck with the half if I don't throw you a comment before the race.

From Matt Schreiber on Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 21:32:05 from 66.17.102.185

Off days are no fun, but the effort was still there. Nice workout nonetheless. Way to not quit when you wanted to.

From Jason D on Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 17:45:39 from 24.1.80.94

Thanks, Matt. I don't have too many bad workout days and this wasn't as bad as it could have been. I'll take it.

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