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:	20.20	Month:	20.20	Year:	1868.65
Miles With Megan Lifetime Miles:						613.75
Miles With The Boys Lifetime Miles:						99.90
Nike Zoom Streak LT4 Mr. Pinks Lifetime Miles:						21.60
Saucony ISO Freedom 3 #2 Lifetime Miles:						253.80
Altra Rivera Lifetime Miles:						353.35
Altra Rivera (Dark Blue) Lifetime Miles:						137.10
Saucony Kinvara 13 Lifetime Miles:						440.50
Saucony Endorphin Pro Lifetime Miles:						287.00
Saucony Freedom 5 Lifetime Miles:						304.80
Saucony Kinvara 13 #2 Lifetime Miles:						270.65
Saucony Endorphin Pro White Lifetime Miles:						23.40
Kinvara 14 Blue/Grey Lifetime Miles:						40.50
Saucony Ride Teal Lifetime Miles:						23.40
Saucony KInvara 14 Yellow Lifetime Miles:						12.40
Nike XC Flats Lifetime Miles:						4.10

Wed, Aug 13, 2014

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.75	0.00	0.00	0.00	12.75

AM: Flourtown - 6.25 miles, averaged 8:17.

Felt like crap. Extremely sluggish. Humidity and dew point were up and there's apparently 500+ feet of gain in this route, which is about 4-5 times my usual gain in Lafayette. Hopefully both reasons are why I felt so slow. I was reconning another tempo loop but I missed the name of the road. I think it's going to work though judging by the topography and maps I have. 3-4 miles out depending on direction and it's a bit over a mile around. On a rough day the climb back home won't be fun though.

PM: Avenue loop - 6.5 miles, averaged 7:51

This loop was busier than I expected. Might have to add it as an non-rush hour run. Lots of traffic and interruptions. Lots of broken glass and trash, but I'm pretty used to that.

Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 6.25	Newton Gravity III Miles: 6.50

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Matt Schreiber on Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 20:24:16 from 66.17.102.175

Sluggish runs suck. Way to get through it !

From SlowJoe on Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 08:28:32 from 168.215.171.129

Running sounds pretty terrible in philly! Surely they have some kind of city-operated trail system or something...?

From Jason D on Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 08:50:11 from 68.80.27.222

There's a huge trail system, which I run on but it's got some elevation drop to get there. When I'm trying to keep it really easy, I don't like that much downhill. I'm still locating portions of trail. I can run 11 miles out to the Rocky Steps, which I will do when I'm ready for 20+.

Yesterday afternoon I was closer to the actual city part (we live on the extreme edge) and North Philly (where Temple and La Salle) are is extremely rough.

Just still trying to get the rhythm of things without climbing hills all the time.

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