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

Fri, Sep 12, 2014

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.10	0.00	8.00	0.00	20.10

AM/Lunch - Flourtown tempo loop - 16. 1 miles total w/ 4 x 2 miles @ HMP w/ ~3:00-3:30 min. recovery jogs. Weather was a little breezy, sunny, lower humidity and temps 65-70.

4.1 up, 9 workout total, 3 down

Set 1: 12:15.6 (6:08, 6:08)

Set 2: 12:15.1 (6:08, 6:07)

Set 3: 12:15.3 (6:08, 6:07)

Set 4: 12:16.4 (6:13, 6:04)

Good, honest effort today. A successful workout for sure. Not too fast so I was out of range and dying, but plenty fast that when I started to dig into 5:30-5:40 pace for the last quarter mile with a slight hill, I was hurting (~end of race effort for roughly a minute and a half). I've run this workout as fast as 5:54 average (last winter when it was 19 degrees) but I ran exactly that for the race. A more reasonable effort and I tend to beat the workout. Last year before Philly I ran about 1.5 seconds faster, but it was one a flat .5 mile loop. This loop is slightly more challenging.

I usually call this one the Hanson Brothers Workout, but of course they didn't invent it but I got the idea a few years ago here.

Workout history with half marathon times

http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/163357565 (March 2012) w/ 1:33 half

http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/296790808 (April 2013) w/ 1:21 half

http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/371418481 (Sept 2013) w/ 1:17 half

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/460224072 (March 2014) w/ 1:17 half

http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/588778379 (Sept 2014) w/ ?:?? half

PM: Wyndmoor - 4 miles, averaged 8:03.

Megan and I are headed to have Thai. I imagine I will be very hungry by time we walk to the top of the hill.

Newton MV3 Miles: 16.10	Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 4.00

Weight: 169.70

Comments

From Jake K on Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:56:10 from 199.190.170.29

You should feel good about that. Very consistent. Ready for a good one next weekend!

From Jason D on Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:19:10 from 68.80.27.222

Thanks, Jake. I do feel good about it. I've done my fair share of complaining recently and ~90% of the problem has been due to forced effort. Kept the effort right today.

Coming around nicely with 10 weeks to go for the marathon. Due for a week of cutback this week. 85-90 per week feels right to me, but I also don't want to end fall like I did last year . . .

From SlowJoe on Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 17:00:37 from 104.51.208.13

Far too lazy to click all the links, but if you're only 1.5 sec off on tougher course, shortly before a PR half, that's pretty exciting. Definitely opportunity for another PR next weekend!

From Jason D on Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 20:04:38 from 68.80.27.222

I figured no one would needed to click on all those links, but it puts them in one place for future reference. Pretty much exactly what I ran before Philly RnR last year and I think I've been running higher mileage. I've also had a longer period of consistent running given that my marathon this year was 4 weeks earlier than the previous year.

Not sure if it will be a PR day, but I am not going to rule it out. I ran perhaps my best race ever last year. Nothing like expecting to break 1:20 and running 1:17:50!

From joebell1981 on Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 09:29:39 from 99.39.133.24

Wow - Ridiculously consistent pacing! :)

Great workout, Jason. Good luck next week.

From Jason D on Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 19:56:22 from 68.80.27.222

I had to put in the decimal place because I couldn't quite believe it. I was monitoring my pace as I usually do but if you asked me in mile 3 or 4 what mile 2 was I couldn't have told you other than "a bit under 6:10."

Now that I have christened my tempo loop, I think my running is pretty well situated here in Philadelphia.

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