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

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Sat, Mar 29, 2014
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24.000.000.00

AM - 6 miles. Another downtown Atlanta jog before flying back to SLC.

PM - 18 mile long run w/ 10 x 45 second surges (5K effort, 90 second float) during the last couple miles. Wasatch Blvd / BCC 7-11 / Holladay loop. 6:29/mile avg pace (77%). Hilly and windy!

Glad I skipped the 5K last night. The race wasn't very fast. The extra recovery days helped me 1) fend off catching a cold and 2) not aggrevate a somewhat tender spot (probably an adhesion) in my left upper hamstring. It wasn't noticeable while running, but I felt it while massaging on Wednesday. I was able to get rid of it by Friday morning, and then waited a bit longer before doing anything faster than jogging.

Comments
From Josh E on Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 19:54:28 from 65.130.223.132

It's gonna come together for you nicely. Really taking care of yourself. 77% of MP?

From Fritz on Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 19:59:23 from 98.202.9.237

That's a solid effort by any measure but even more so after a flight and in the wind. Probably more a net gain than running the 5k.

From Jake K on Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 20:56:04 from 67.177.11.154

A competitive 5K would have been a nice way to sharpen up a bit for the race next weekend, but under the circumstances this was a decent maintenance workout and less intense, which is OK considering the string of workouts I've had recently.

Josh - yeah, I've been using that metric for a while (% of MP) as a way to gauge the overall intensity of the long runs. It doesn't really matter what those numbers are at the moment, but they'll come into play later in the summer when I start my marathon buildup and will become pretty important. So I just want a relative baseline of intensity for what my long runs have been leading up to the marathon phase. For now I'm using 315 as the denominator (5:15) but I'm hoping I adjust that number (down) by the summer :-) That's why I'm waiting until I'm in shape to start training for the marathon.

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