Of Mice and Marathons

July 20, 2026

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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:	14.50	Month:	88.00	Year:	1042.30
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Saucony Kinvara 15 (All Black) Lifetime Miles:						37.30

Mon, Jul 06, 2026

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
13.50	0.00	0.00	0.00	13.50

AM/Lunch: 13.5 miles, averaged 7:25. HR 150.

60' @ Marathon Effort

I was going to run on the treadmill, but it wasn't too bad outside. Moderate dew point and humidity, in the mid-70s to about 80 by the end. I planned on 2 hours to 2 hours 10, but it got a bit hot and I didn't want to overdo it, but I was due for a 60' effort to check marathon effort versus pace. Right at 7' pace @ 158 BPM. Started around 7:10ish, I think but I didn't take splits. Some low to mid 6:50s in there, so that was decent.

I see that Josh Kerr does 8-mile tempos at what I assume is about his marathon effort and he's a miler, which probably confirms my long-held belief that an 8-mile tempo around marathon-to-steady-state pace is one of the most beneficial workouts for runners training for many different events.

Puma Fast-R Nitro Elite 3 Miles: 13.50

Weight: 186.00

Comments

From Tom K on Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 06:33:11 from 47.206.202.65

Great run, Jason.

8 mile tempos? Interesting.

I think that after all of this time on the blog, I have ripped off your training ideas probably more than anyone else.

My execution of those ideas is a whole different thing.

From Jason D on Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 07:58:38 from 73.161.42.48

What Riley Cook calls an "aerobic builder." Plenty of examples on his blog from, maybe 2013ish? I tend to do a lot of them in marathon training as a midweek workout and then I insert them into long runs with an extended warm-up and cool down to get the run up to 20+ miles.

A LOT of my training style has been influenced by the blog. Lately, I have been doing Norwegian-style subthreshold stuff, which I quite like.

You look like you are laying down some mileage lately!

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