Of Mice and Marathons

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Lake Orion,MI,

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Dec 28, 2011

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Male

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Other

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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)

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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
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Wed, Feb 03, 2016

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.75	0.00	3.10	1.15	13.00

Am/Lunch: Flourtown Tempo Loop - 13 miles. HR 155. Warmer and rainy.

30 minutes up/30 minutes down

45 minute fartlek of 6 (3 min LT/1 min easy/1 min hard) [3 minutes easy between sets]

Averaged 5:48 for the 3 minute segments (started at just under 6:00 and worked down to 5:40)

Averaged ~5:12 for the 1 minute segments (started at 5:24 worked down to 5:00 pace)

Workout went quite well. I hit the 1 minute segements pretty hard (they were all flat) while the 3 minute segments had some ups and downs to make them a little more challenging. I'll extend this out to eight reps next time then ten the time after that.

New Balance Zante Miles: 13.00

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From SlowJoe on Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:16:35 from 45.18.50.53

Have you been talking to Bam or something?

So no spring marathon.... I like that. I'm starting to believe in the whole periodization thing, although I can't seem to ever pull it off myself.

From Jason D on Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:29:00 from 68.80.27.222

Who's Bam? :-) Yes. This is a Bam special. He mentioned it last fall in marathon training but said it was better for the half. Given that I will be doing a lot of fartleks and not worrying about pace in the moment, it made sense.

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