Of Mice and Marathons

Wissahickon Trail Classic 10k

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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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Sat, Jun 06, 2015

Race: Wissahickon Trail Classic 10k (6.2 Miles) 00:45:33, Place overall: 18

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
7.25	0.00	6.25	0.00	13.50

AM: Wissahickon Trail Classic - 13.5 miles total

This race is in Wissahickon Valley Park where I run pretty much every day. There's a 5+ mile stretch of dirt road called Forbidden Drive at the base of a steep ravine. The trails traverse back and forth through the hills and connect back to Forbidden Drive in various places. The trails are rocky and very steep in places.

4.25 miles warmup mostly on the trails. Did some strides. I knew I had to go out hard to not get behind a bunch of people, so I got out hard but settled down a bit before the steep hill. I spent the race getting passed going up the hills and blowing by people on the downhills. The last two miles were tough mentally because I just didn't think I had anything left (in trail running you generally have a lot more left assuming the distance is short. Muscle fatigue doesn't correspond to breathing in the same way as on the roads, and so on). Should have pushed harder to get under 45 minutes. Still learning trail effort.

I got passed by a guy in Vibrams with about 1.25 to go. Okay, finger feet, let's see if your stones are as big as the ones on this last downhill! I passed him again and worked the downhills pretty hard and tried to finish hard but it looks like I took too long to rev up after the last sharp turn.

800+ feet of gain

Cooled down 3 miles for another 300+ feet

PM: ?

Salomon SL Sense Ultra Miles: 13.50

Weight: 170.90

Comments

From Bam on Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 15:43:16 from 89.126.28.24

Psst: if you want a full-time position at that rather strange sounding education establishment, fix the typo;)

What's the goal for the Philadelphia Marathon?

From Jason D on Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 15:54:10 from 68.80.27.222

I didn't even proofread . . . shame on me. Now I have to find it.

Philadelphia is a long, long way off, but I would say a PR, but really something under 2:45, low 2:40s. Maybe sub-2:40 :-) That's probably ambitious enough for right now. We will see what I can do to bring down my 5k/10 times and how fall training goes, lack of injuries, continued consistency.

I'd be even more ambitious but I don't want to get injured. I can't take that at the best of times and these aren't the best of times. They aren't the worst either I suppose.

With all those qualifications in mind, sub-2:43 or the Women's OT Standard :-)

From Bam on Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 16:19:16 from 89.126.28.24

The clue is in the clue;)

A tale of too many cities often leaves one chasing one's tail when it comes to the best times and the worst times. For sure, don't get dizzy and end up injured.

2:43 - yep, eminently doable for a man of your talents.

From Rob Murphy on Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 12:46:53 from 24.10.247.181

All your observations are accurate. Congrats on that.

Trails and roads - different animals.

From Jake K on Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 10:56:12 from 199.190.170.30

You did beat the Vibram guy, right?

From SlowJoe on Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:16:17 from 12.182.148.249

I was curious about that too. If I were you, I would just answer "yes."

From Jason D on Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:48:31 from 68.80.27.222

I did. I had some downhills that he couldn't match. I did get chicked several times by the same lady who won the women's. I passed her initially in the meadows at the top of the first hill, bombed the downhill, then she would catch me on the uphills, rinse and repeat.

As it turns out she the Penn record holder in the steeple chase. I am not sure where she stands as runner overall, but she's in good shape.

Looks like I have her in the mile, half marathon, and marathon. She's got me in the 5k though. Looks like she ran 58:33 for 10 miles in early March, so she was a minute ahead of what I was a month ago.

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