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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
3.750.000.004.258.00

Much cooler this morning (65) but windy.  The recovery run yesterday seemed to help restore some energy to the legs plus the better weather helped.  I felt pretty good.  

Went to the track today and ran 6 x 1k with 400 recovery then did 4 x 200 with 200 recovery.  Goal for the 1k was 3:50, goal for 200s was to run hard but under control.  After a warmup I started the first 1k.  Felt good but had a hard time getting the legs moving.  The next few repeats felt good and pace was good.  Started to feel some heaviness in my legs on the 4th one and the 5th was really feeling it.  The last one I couldn't hold the pace that I had on the other ones.  I probably ran the middle repeats a little fast. All of these were about 6:00 pace which I was really please with. I would like to be able to keep these consistent and not lose the pace at the end.  I would really like to be able to finish faster than I started.  The 200s were good but really had heavy legs toward the end of each one.  Overall I was really happy with this workout especially after the week that I have had so far.  Here are the splits:

 1k: 3:47, 3:44, 3:45, 3:46, 3:47, 3:53

200s: 37.4, 37.8, 37.4, 37.1

 

Saucony Virrata Miles: 8.00
Comments
From Tom on Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:51:16 from 137.65.57.33

That's a tough workout, great job gutting it out to the end.

From JimF on Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 09:02:29 from 98.222.218.178

Thanks Tom! I am working on 5k and 10k races this summer then will try to build back up to the longer stuff. It is a nice change.

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