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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
29.000.004.003.0036.00
Saucony Virrata Miles: 8.00Saucony Kinvara 3 Miles: 14.00Saucony Ride 5 Miles: 14.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

A little warmer (67) and humid this morning.  Ran down to the park and ran on the trail.  Felt good this morning.  Had to hold back some to keep it easy.  Hoping to build this into a good week.

62:30 (7:49 avg) 

Saucony Virrata Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.000.004.000.007.00

Getting warmer each day.  It was 68 and humid this morning with some wind.  What a difference a day makes.  Felt great yesterday but was dragging this morning.  Plan for today was 4 mile tempo at 6:45 pace.  Would have liked to have felt better but decided to stick to the plan.  Did a 2 mile warmup and then jumped into the tempo.  The first mile wasn't bad.  Felt ok on the second but had to start pushing some on the 3rd.  The 3rd and 4th miles were back into the wind so that didn't help.  Had to push it quite a bit on the 4th mile but glad I stuck with it.  

 Here are the splits: 6:41, 6:42, 6:44, 6:43

Good workout and glad to finish a 4 mile tempo.  

51:50 (7:25 avg) 

Saucony Kinvara 3 Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

It was hot (78) and humid this morning with some light wind.  I was a little tired this morning and the heat didn't help things.  I just took it easy today on a recovery run. Supposed to have a weather front moving through today so looking forward to some cooler weather this weekend.

66:10 (8:16 avg) 

Saucony Ride 5 Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.003.007.00

Had some strong storms this morning so ran during lunch.  Went to the track to do 6 x 800 with the goal at 3:05 and 400 jog recovery.  Did a 1 1/2 warmup then ran the 6 800s.  Here are the splits:

3:02, 3:03, 3:02, 3:04, 3:02, 3:05

Felt good on the first 3 but started feeling the effort on the 4th.  Had to push on the 5th one and was really feeling it on the 6th.  The pace is probably a little faster than I should be running these right now.  I would like to run these at 5k pace but this is faster than 5k for me right now.  However, it was good to finish them and gives me some confidence going forward. 

Saucony Kinvara 3 Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

Nice morning today.  Much cooler (60) and less humid.  Felt pretty good today.  Legs were not tired from workout yesterday which is good.  Got a busy day today so short run.

48:51 (8:09 avg) 

Saucony Ride 5 Miles: 6.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
29.000.004.003.0036.00
Saucony Virrata Miles: 8.00Saucony Kinvara 3 Miles: 14.00Saucony Ride 5 Miles: 14.00
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