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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: 32.70 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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.750.003.250.009.00

PM: Walked with Remy for 40 minutes. Legs still feel quite weak. I found three golf balls though.

PM2: 9 miles. w/ 6 x 3 minute fartlek w/ 2 minutes easy. 20 minutes up/22 minutes down. Faster portions averaged 5:42-5:27

Did these under tree cover and the rolling dirt of Forbidden Drive. My legs felt weak on the warm up. Sometimes I feel crappy on a warm up but my legs the last 2-3 days have felt like they are going to crumble on me. Today was the same. Said screw it and did a workout to try to shake the crap loose.

I think this will be the style of my workouts for the next 4 weeks. Too much pressure with a full set of mile repeats or LT tempos this time a year. I'm not strong enough to gut those out until fall. Today's workout, though short, felt like a workout, I got through it, and finished stronger than I started.

Late:

+ Stretching and core

 

Nike Zoom Streak LT2 Miles: 9.00
Weight: 174.80
Comments
From SlowJoe on Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 15:36:22 from 12.182.148.249

I've noticed that 800s and below are usually ok in the summer, which is close to your 3 minutes, so probably a perfect choice you had. 1000-1600s are doable on a really nice morning, but anything over that and I have to drastically change my expectations. Well done.

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