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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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AM: Off. 

I was going to get up and run or get my bike workout in, but I kept shutting my early alarms off. Felt great to sleep. I need to cut the overall volume this week. 18+ hours last week for the last week of classes was a little crazy.

PM: 2 hours 21'. 41.5 miles @ 17.6 MPH. 213W. HR 131. 

3 x 10' Criss Cross (Diabolical)

4 minutes at FTP, 1' hard, 4 minutes at FTP, 1' all out. This was pretty hard and my legs weren't interested in pressing too hard, but I progressed throughout. I stopped lapping the subsets as the gravel was loose and chunky and I didn't want to eat it. I averaged around 300 watts for each. The higher portions weren't too high. I am continuing to see issues with higher power over 280-290 watts. I assume this is due to higher overall aerobic volume. Kind of like how running much faster than marathon pace is hard with high mileage but you can run marathon pace forever. 

Weight: 173.20
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