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Location:

New Palestine,IN,USA

Member Since:

Oct 23, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

5k - 18:59 (3/09)
4M - 25:06 (9/09)
10k - 41:01 (11/07)

Half - 1:25:58 (11/09)

Marathon - 3:06:33 (12/09)

Short-Term Running Goals:

1:25 for the half marathon
Sub 39:00 for the 10k.
3:07 marathon
18:30 5k

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Long-Term Running Goals:

Break 3:00 for the marathon.

Personal:

Married, two daughters (18 and 15).  Masters runner trying to get competitive in my age group.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Ride 5 (Red) Lifetime Miles: 372.70
ASICS Excel 33 Lifetime Miles: 152.00
Saucony Ride 7 Lifetime Miles: 249.00
ASICS DS Trainer Lifetime Miles: 212.20
Asics Cumulus 16 Lifetime Miles: 241.30
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.001.004.000.008.00

I ran on the treadmill today.  I wanted to do a tempo run and it was super windy outside so that is my whimpy excuse for running on the treadmill.  Seriously I did want to be able to see how the tempo went pace wise and figured I would be all over the map in the wind.  I started off with a 2 mile warm up and felt pretty good but still a little stiff.  I used the 3rd mile as a transition to the tempo so it was more at MP and ended up at 7:06.  I picked it up to tempo pace and ran the tempo miles as follows:

1st - 6:34

2nd - 6:24

3rd - 6:21

4th - 6:15

So did the 4 mile tempo in 25:34 for a 6:24 avg.  I was pretty happy with the run.  I would have perferred to have this result on the roads so will try it again next week outside to see how it compares.  It felt comfortably hard if that makes sense.  I finished up with a mile cool down.

56:34 (7:04 avg)

Saucony Tangent 3 Miles: 8.00
Comments
From jtshad on Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:32:51 from 207.250.149.27

Nice tempo run!

From rockness18 on Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:22:47 from 69.183.245.78

Very nice...you've held your fitness well through the winter.

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