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PR Table and Notable Races

Marathon: 2:21:12 (Chicago); 2:20:41 (CIM)
Half Marathon: 1:05:45 (Long Beach)
10K: 30:03 (Portland)

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2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Running Miles	Swimming Yards	Bike Miles
16.30	0.00	0.00

AM - 8.3 miles. Usual warmup, 5 mile tempo in 25:59 (5:12/mile). Splits - 5:17, 5:15, 5:14, 5:10, 5:03. Ran home for the cooldown. Checked my email when I got back and saw that Andrea ran an awesome tempo run this morning, so that got me pretty excited for her.

PM - 8 miles around SHP on the grass. Originally the plan was to do some faster stuff this afternoon, and Kevin (Redd) was going to join me at the track. But the forecast for the weekend is not looking great (hurricane wind, again!), so I decided to move Saturday morning's planned workout to Friday afternoon, and therefore could only run easy this afternoon. Two workouts in one day is a good training stimulus, 3 workouts in 2 days is stupid. Kevin was cool w/ the change of plans so we just ran loops around the perimeter of the park.

Comments

From Lulu Walls on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:12:51 from 155.100.217.40

How many days until Boston? Has the countdown begun?

From Jake K on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:19:18 from 155.100.226.54

The countdown began around mid-January! :-)

Its 2 weeks from Monday (April 16). You have my permission to watch the race from work all morning. In fact, I think the staff meeting should just be cancelled so everyone can focus on watching the race.

From Rachelle on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:24:39 from 159.212.71.77

You and Andrea both freaking rock! Seriously getting on and reading your blogs this morning has inspired me. Nice tempo!

From rAtTLeTrAp on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:24:50 from 24.18.125.122

I get tired just reading your blog! Those splits are awesome. I can't wait to see you kill it in Boston. Although I won't be able to see very well from the hills I'll still be climbing when you finish.

From Lulu Walls on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:25:40 from 155.100.217.40

Ooooh that is going to be so much fun! I am going to throw a party in my cube and make treats :)

From Jake K on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:27:14 from 155.100.226.54

Clam chowder and Sam Adams! :-)

From rAtTLeTrAp on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:31:52 from 24.18.125.122

Breakfast of champions :)

From jtshad on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:45:43 from 184.99.241.227

Jake, you and Andrea have to do the Sam Adams Brewery tour, it is awesome!

From scottkeate on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 14:54:18 from 216.49.181.254

5 mile tempo run at 5:12/mile as part of a double dipper for the day...old hat...

How does it feel????

From Jake K on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 15:04:36 from 155.100.226.54

i need to keep the reigns on a bit longer, but this is how I feel... :-)

“But sometimes when it is all going good, I mean when it’s early May warm and there’s cut grass in the air and you’ve made it through winter okay, not bad sick or anything, then sometimes you can take a deep breath and feel your own heart jumping – that’s right don’t look at me like that – you can feel your own heart in there jumping around like a goddmn bobcat or something; that’s when you’ve just got to get yourself out somewhere and let them loose”

From scottkeate on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 15:22:07 from 216.49.181.254

Awesome! That's from that book you've recommended I assume. (And I appreciate your using an abbreviated version of the cuss word to keep the content family-safe :-)

The fact that you're talking about keeping the reigns on after a workout that would put 99.9999999 percent of us in cardiac arrest is awesome.

From Jake K on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 15:24:44 from 155.100.226.54

i didn't want to get my blog blocked! :-)

well its taken a lot of work to get to the point where than kind of pace isn't putting ME into a world of lactic hurt. now its aerobic. I'm actually taking it a bit easier this afternoon now, since it looks like saturday is going to be a hurricane, I'm going to do a harder workout tomorrow afternoon instead.

From Rob Murphy on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 16:41:26 from 76.27.122.13

Thank God!

I was going to remind you to taper if I didn't see some evidence of it soon. Thought maybe you forgot about it.

Kidding! I know you'll do the smart thing.

From Hamdog Alum on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 17:09:10 from 24.240.65.116

It is truly amazing to see you running under 26 for 5 miles at a non-lactate pace on top of all the other workouts and volume you do. I know it's taken a lot of patience, commitment, and support to get there. You really deserve to be in this kind of fitness. Nice work today!

From Jake K on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 18:42:10 from 67.177.21.60

I've actually reduced the mileage a bit this week Rob. Enough to feel fresh but not get stale. I think 2 weeks is enough of a true taper for me.

I was thinking today about how I have actually been relatively good at taking my own advice (even when Andrea has been gone!) and only doing smart things during this whole training cycle. I haven't had any days where I've felt trashed or totally wiped out. No workouts that really made me go deep into the well. I just hope the overall accumulation of what I've done will be enough. I believe its gone about as well as it could have.

Hamdog - yes considering I couldn't even break 26 for 8K in college, its nice that that pace (at altitude) is just another morning tempo run now!

From Burt on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 21:59:10 from 174.235.193.33

Nice job. From your secret admirer.

From Kam on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 22:53:40 from 67.2.33.58

Burt, I hate to spoil it, but...

From Burt on Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 00:01:12 from 174.235.193.160

Dang it! There used to be a time when we could leave comments anonymously.

From Holt on Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 08:59:08 from 204.113.55.41

Jake, remind me of the video you recommended a little while ago about kenyan marathoning (I think that was you). And that video with the 2 runners -that are the same guy. (Do you know what I am talking about?)

From Jake K on Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:03:11 from 155.100.226.54

The Kenya one is called "Man on a Mission" but the link on Vimeo appears to be password protected now. Not sure why that is the case.

I'm not sure what video w/ 2 runners you are talking about...

From Holt on Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:22:27 from 204.113.55.41

Thanks - I thought was it. I saw a link on lets run or something and tried it and couldn't get in.

It might not have been you who put the other one on - let me describe it and maybe the vast visitage you get will point me in the right direction! It has a dude in like red shorts (the colors might be wrong) running and then it cuts to the same dude running wearing black... back and forth like he is racing himself....Anybody?

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