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Location:

Columbus,IN,US

Member Since:

Jun 13, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

37 Marathons -- PR - 2:48:53 (Fall 2014)

A bunch of Half Marathons -- PR - 1:19:20 (Aug. 2015 - Converted)

10k - 36:30 Unaided // 35:25 (July 2014 - Aided)

5k - 17:28 (Aug. 2015)

1mi. - 4:58 (July 2014 - Track)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

10k and 5k's to get back into the swing of thing this summer

Sept. 21:  Mill Race Marathon - Under 3:00.  LET's GO!  

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

R2R2R in Grand Canyon  5/18/19 

Marathon < 2:45

Half Marathon < 1:18

Top 10 in Bluegrass 10k

5k < 17

Personal:

400m/800m competitively in track in high school.  Took 15 years off. Started running again in 2010.  Married to my beautiful wife, Tiffany, with 2 little boys, now 4 and 6.  I'm a civil engineer working for the Indiana DOT in Seymour, IN.   I live in a slightly larger town about 20 miles north - Columbus, IN.  Originally from Lexington, KY.

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Barefoot Running Lifetime Miles: 4.00
Swimming Lifetime Miles: 6.20
Elliptical Lifetime Miles: 81.50
Vilano Road Bike Lifetime Miles: 1216.95
Vilano Bike On Mag Trainer Lifetime Miles: 277.85
Red Peregrine Velcro Lifetime Miles: 314.94
Red Peregrine NO Velcro Lifetime Miles: 171.83
Saucony Kinvara 11 Lifetime Miles: 237.33
Blue Arahi 4.2 Lifetime Miles: 662.17
Nordictrack TM Lifetime Miles: 358.98
Hoka Bondi 7 Lifetime Miles: 325.22
Sat, Dec 01, 2012
Race: Reindeer Romp (4.97 Miles) 00:32:10, Place overall: 9, Place in age division: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.500.004.970.005.47

About a minute slower than last year's time in this race.  I was okay for the first mile in 6:05, or so.  For some reason I decided to start doing cross training for legs and core this week - mostly lunges, 1-leg squats, etc.  Only 2 days this week, with one 10 minutes worth yesterday...

I guess this was the culprit of the horrible lactic-type buildup that I felt in my quads in this race.  I could barely hold on to what was MP (and slower) a month ago.  8k - 32:10 :(   Whatever

Brooks Ravenna 3 - Orange Miles: 5.47
Weight: 152.00
Comments
From I Just Run on Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 14:55:51 from 67.79.11.242

"46 Races this year" ... Are you serious? My daughter is on track to run 17 5K's (one every week) through the end of the year. I though that was nuts!

BTW, I see you ran the OKC half marathon, I ran the OKC full marathon this year :-)

I read an interesting article on the Marathon Nation website the other day, you might be interested in it. Here is a link:

http://running.competitor.com/2012/12/training/six-lies-you-were-taught-about-lactic-acid_29432

From joebell1981 on Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 17:22:29 from 99.39.133.24

Thanks, IJR. Yeah, I went a little over board on race count - wouldn't recommend it :) Congrats on the OKC Full - though, I think the half I ran was an inaugural Sunday race. Pretty small. My dad and I got lucky and were rolling through town on our way back from the Grand Canyon.

Very interesting article - thank you. I am always ready and willing to learn more about the actual biologial/chemical reasons about why I suck a little worse than usual on occasions :) So much of what is out there is false/misleading.

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