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:	0.00	Month:	57.70	Year:	1986.65
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:						357.35
Altra Rivera (Dark Blue) Lifetime Miles:						145.10
Saucony Kinvara 13 Lifetime Miles:						465.10
Saucony Endorphin Pro Lifetime Miles:						287.00
Active 88 Boulder Lifetime Miles:						5.00
Saucony Freedom 5 Lifetime Miles:						304.80
Saucony Kinvara 13 #2 Lifetime Miles:						310.95
Saucony Endorphin Pro White Lifetime Miles:						23.40
Kinvara 14 Blue/Grey Lifetime Miles:						64.50
Saucony Ride Teal Lifetime Miles:						23.40
Saucony KInvara 14 Yellow Lifetime Miles:						12.40
Nike XC Flats Lifetime Miles:						4.10
Active 88 Boulder Lifetime Miles:						13.10

Wed, Feb 11, 2015

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.50	0.00	5.00	0.00	17.50

AM/Lunch: Flourtown Tempo Loop - 13.5 miles, averaged 7:11

5 x 1 mile with 2:00 recovery jogs (~9:00-9:45). 5:46, 5:41, 5:41, 5:44, 5:43 (5:43 avg)

4 up/3.5 down

I skipped my last repeat. I was working a bit toward the end but the effort was normal. I was far ahead of projected pace and decided I have lots of time to add repeats (or minutes). Figured I would take this for now and . . . run with it. Pleased to finally be out of 6-minute purgatory for the first LT session of the year. I always seem to run this workout early in a buildup just below to just over 6-minute pace. This is pretty much what I was running 4 weeks out from Philadelphia last fall (off of more mileage and accumulated fatique, of course).

PM: Treadmill - 4 mile plod + weights and stretching

Newton MV3 Miles: 13.50	Mizuno Musha Miles: 4.00

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From RileyCook on Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:27:46 from 38.98.41.97

Very nice workout Jason.

From Jake K on Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:09:12 from 159.212.71.173

Taking the hammer to Flourtown!

From Jake K on Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:10:12 from 159.212.71.173

Or, taking the Quern-stone to flourtown!

From jtshad on Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:41:08 from 141.221.191.225

Great workout, looking strong.

From steve ash on Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 13:23:46 from 174.27.252.143

Great workout Jason. Keep up the easy aerobic mileage on the other end and you should see some really good gains.

From Bret on Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 07:07:23 from 216.234.133.229

Strong effort Jason. You have a really solid level of fitness based on that workout.

From Jason D on Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 20:23:15 from 68.80.27.222

I appreciate the encouragement. I figured getting 5:50-5:55 would be good (not that that's where I wanted to be). I knew I was running about low-5:40 for the first one, got nervous when I saw the split, but kept the same effort, loosened up, and hit some faster splits.

I guess I am seeing the results of over 4000 consistent, injury-free miles since late-November 2013 at work and an honest several weeks of basebuilding following my marathon recovery weeks last fall.

From Rob Murphy on Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 21:09:06 from 24.10.247.181

That's pretty impressive Jason. A few more workouts like that and you might have to start considering yourself pretty good at this!

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