Of Mice and Marathons

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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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Miles:	This week:	32.70	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
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Active 88 Boulder Lifetime Miles:						13.10

Wed, Oct 24, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.01	0.00	4.00	0.00	10.01

10 Days Out Work Out - 10 miles: 2.5 miles up to Courtland, stretches, strides. Then 4 x 1 mile @ HMP: 6:33, 6:32, 6:27, 6:20. Recoveries were 3 minutes, which seemed like the right time to make it difficult but not painful. The last one was obviously too fast, but I'm not upset because it means (I think) I'm getting some snap into my legs since the effort felt comfortably hard and controlled. I started the first one at 6:18 and had to back off. Same thing for the last one. 2.6 miles back.

77 degrees with 66% humidity. Ran into the wind on repeats 2 & 4, but it was less than 20MPH and it kept me cooled down somewhat.

Newton (Marathon Workout) Miles: 10.01

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Bret on Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:31:06 from 64.128.133.66

Nice job Jason - especially in windy humid conditions. Hope your weather cools and dries out a bit for the race in 10 days.

Bret

From Jason D on Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 13:36:04 from 24.1.80.94

Thanks, Bret. It's already cooled off. I knew it wouldn't last, which is okay by me if it means a cool race.

From SlowJoe on Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 16:09:27 from 69.131.141.92

Always a great sign when you realize you're going too fast...especially on a hot day like that. You're definitely ready - have a nice taper!

From Jason D on Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 16:39:44 from 24.1.80.94

Thanks, Joe. For a minute I was like "with a few days easy and cold weather I could break my half PR if I ran a half instead!" Then I realized that would be silly. I do have a much better idea of how to train for half marathons now though.

The massage really loosened my tight legs up and I feel healthy and sharp. Medium long tomorrow, then it's basically short and very easy runs. Have a good weekend!

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