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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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Active 88 Boulder Lifetime Miles: 13.10
Wed, Apr 24, 2013
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.107.000.000.0013.10

Evening: 18th street south to Veteran's Memorial Parkway and back - 13.1 miles, averaged 7:27 w/ 7-mile MP tempo and 3 up and down. I knew I wasn't ready to 6:35 pace, so I figured I would go by feel and hope be 6:45-6:55 range and go with sub-3 hour. Glad I wasn't racing today! Just a hair under 6:59, which means I'm not recovered from Saturday (I knew that) and my inner Garmin isn't finely tuned. Still enjoyed the run and it was nice not to know what my pace was and burn some lard I seem to be accumulating with the joy that is the end of the semester. 

Newton Trainer 5 Miles: 13.10
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Matt Schreiber on Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 21:45:04 from 66.17.102.185

Great workout today. Especially not being recovered from Saturday. I need to try that running without a watch thing sometime. I feel I look at mine too much.

From Jason D on Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 23:31:17 from 24.1.80.94

For the race on Sunday I definitely knew where I was and used the watch as a guide. You still have to run at the correct effort or you will still suffer at the end if you legs aren't moving. Today was a low stakes kind of day. I know what 6:55-7:10 feels like because I have run a marathon in that pace range and until September had been running half marathon pace in that range, so I had done a good bit of running in that range. I'm not sure about repeats though with the slowing down and speeding up. I don't think I could get through a workout because I would smoke the early ones and suffer on the last ones (I don't run on the track much, which would help).

Try running a normal route without a watch. My guess is that you will be checking your wrist like a fool (I am definitely guilty of this!). The other thing I started doing last fall was not to reset my watch after a warmup for marathon tempos (you need an even number of miles for a warmup of course), so I would only be able to see current pace (NOT lap pace) and average pace.

I now have my one Garmin for everyday running and one for racing so I can't see the pace on the everyday one, but I am a watch watcher for sure. It's made me a better runner, but a reliant one for sure.

From CollinAnderson on Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 00:48:43 from 70.196.196.68

Getting the miles in! Nice!

From SlowJoe on Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:57:24 from 155.219.241.10

Good run - yeah, those HM's seem to be sneaky to recover from. You feel fine, but there is some damage done that seems to take a bit longer to repair. Good call on stepping back the pace.

From Jason D on Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:17:17 from 128.210.82.162

Makes me wonder if I was running my other, shorter races too slow! I feel like I may not be ready for Saturday's long, long run w/ MP tempo, but I guess it really doesn't matter as long as I get it in Sunday or early in the week. I hate to skew my mileage though :)

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