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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
3.000.004.000.007.00

Huntsville, AL:  Warm and humid morning down here.  Definitely hotter thatn I am used too lately.  Today I planned on doing 4 miles at tempo pace around 6:40.  I did a 3 mile tempo last week so wanted to step it up a notch.  I started off with a couple of easy miles to get warmed up and felt good.  After that ran the 4 tempo miles.  The first mile took me a little while to get going but it still felt good.  I felt a lot more comfortable on the 2nd and 3rd mile and just tried to stay relaxed.  The last mile was good also but started to feel the effort in my legs.  Overall it was a good run and I felt like I had definitely stepped it up a notch.  Here are my spilts for the tempo:  6:40, 6:36, 6:32, 6:29.  It is always good to have each mile go a little bit faster.  This was a lot more consistent than the tempo that I did last week.

50:23 (7:12 avg)

Acis DS Trainer Miles: 7.00
Comments
From Mark on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 14:56:20 from 24.129.132.74

Definitely the way to do it! Looks like you haven't lost any speed.

From Tom on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 15:11:55 from 137.65.56.16

Very nice looking splits on the tempo. Good job!

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