Of Mice and Marathons

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Lake Orion,MI,

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Dec 28, 2011

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Male

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Other

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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:	0.00	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
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Active 88 Boulder Lifetime Miles:						5.00
Saucony Freedom 5 Lifetime Miles:						304.80
Saucony Kinvara 13 #2 Lifetime Miles:						310.95
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Kinvara 14 Blue/Grey Lifetime Miles:						64.50
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Active 88 Boulder Lifetime Miles:						13.10

Thu, May 28, 2015

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.50	0.00	0.00	3.50	10.00

Brandywine Tempo Loop - 10 miles, averaged 8:01 w/ 3 hard miles broken up. HR 163.

Did 3 x 1 mile hard with slow quarter mile jogs . Followed that with a 5 minute jog, then 2 x 400 hard with equal recovery. Goal was to get under 5:40 pace to shock the system and stress the lungs. I want to run sub-35 in the 10k in ~9 weeks and it's going to take some unpleasant workouts to do that. My goal was to run 4 x 1 mile then 4 x 400 but I stayed up late with my wife and her uncle having drinks. Today was plenty to start. I paid for my sins today. Sunny and warm. Felt warmer than 73.

5:34 (182), 5:32 (184), 5:34 (185), 74, 78 (turns)

Saucony A5 Miles: 10.00

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Drew on Thu, May 28, 2015 at 13:06:35 from 24.73.66.122

Nice running, Jason.

I kind of like the ideas in this article, if you haven't seen it: https://www.mcmillanrunning.com/articlePages/article/39

I've never made it all the way through that plan, though.

From Jason D on Thu, May 28, 2015 at 15:56:50 from 166.137.12.107

That's more or less what I am doing. Thanks for posting though.

I did this today as a low stakes transitioning workout to build on as I have quite a bit of time. I don't like the longer rest but given the effort it is necessary. I think I might run my usual mile repeats too conservatively.

From Matt Schreiber on Thu, May 28, 2015 at 22:29:01 from 66.17.112.31

Unpleasant workouts.. I love it. Time to get comfortable, feeling uncomfortable.

From SlowJoe on Fri, May 29, 2015 at 17:47:50 from 104.51.208.13

Yyyyep those are fast, and I'm guessing quite unpleasant. Nice work!

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