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Location:

Lake Orion,MI,

Member Since:

Dec 28, 2011

Gender:

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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Sat, Aug 09, 2014
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.300.000.002.7010.00

Cheshire Trail in Keene, NH - 10 miles, averaged 7:40 w/ 5 x 3 minutes hard and two minutes easy but not plodding

30 minutes up

25 minutes of fartlek

~22 minutes down

Not quite true vo2 max but a good effort in the 5k zone. 5:35 pace for the hard and 8:00-8:30 off. These were on trails. A bit off cross style mud and dirt. Not what I thought the trail would be but I made it work.

Newton MV3 Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From SlowJoe on Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 13:02:13 from 107.77.80.27

Seems like it would be tough to do 3 minutes at a time @ vo2. Nice workout though, definitely got something worthwhile there.

From Matt Schreiber on Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 15:05:02 from 66.17.102.175

Nice work Jason. Good mental and physical stuff.

From Jason D on Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 02:27:46 from 198.228.200.42

I tend to call 5k workouts vo2 max sessions because that's where my mileage gets slotted. True vo2 is 3-5 minutes I think but I believe that it takes ~80-90% heart rate for the duration. So maybe you hit it on the last rep or two. I was working pretty hard on the last one. I ran out of real estate and ran sidewalks and grass and squeezed between a parked car and a guard rail.

I really recommend running by minutes, at least some of the time. It's easier to focus on duration left than distance left.

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