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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
94.6511.001.700.00107.35
Saucony Iso 2 - Gray Miles: 13.00Blue Arahi 4 Miles: 86.40Red Peregrine Velcro Miles: 7.95
Weight: 150.60
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.008.000.000.0013.00

Did a bunch of yard all day today in the rainy stormy awesome spring weather.  Left the house after 3 pm for a long run AT type workout.  Literally decided the workout during the warmup.  8-10 miles cut down in the Aerobic zone.  Wound up with 8 miles AT Building  - cut it down 10 seconds per mile until the effort became non-aerobic.  7:30 down to 6:20.  Sporadic rain throughout the run kept it fun and cooler.  13 miles total - 1:36:26.  

The Saucony Iso 2s have about had it - feeling some pain in places I don't in the Hoka's

Saucony Iso 2 - Gray Miles: 13.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.300.000.000.0015.30

Lunch Run - out and back to Tipton and running around the neighborhood enjoying the weather.  10.3 miles - 90 minutes.  Feeling tired and sore from yesterday.

Evening Run back home fom random drop off after walk with family in Tipton Lakes.  hit a low low point about 2 miles into the run, but, then bounced back.  Lots and lots of people outside.  Our area is pretty low risk right now, but, nobody is really taking any of this seriously enough.  We're in trouble in the months ahead.  Good luck to us all...  5 miles 43:08.  

Blue Arahi 4 Miles: 15.30
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.350.000.000.0011.35

AM run before work - slow and sore legs still. did some drills (sort of) at the end.  2.35 miles - 24:30.  The weather sucks again - 45 degrees and rainy.  

Evening run - tough to get out the door for this one.  9 miles around the neighborhood and the bigger county raod loop.  1:16:32

Red Peregrine Velcro Miles: 2.35Blue Arahi 4 Miles: 9.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.300.001.700.0017.00

Solid Triple today:

Easy in the AM: 4 miles around the neighborhood followed by some stretching and light core.  35:36.

Awesome weather for a lunch run around Grandview Lake.  Added on Sawmill Hill at the end: 7.45miles - 60:45

Evening light workout: 10x1min. On/Off  5.6 miles total around the neighborhood and on some sidewalk construction with only the base layer laid (compacted aggregate) - 43:12

 

Red Peregrine Velcro Miles: 5.60Blue Arahi 4 Miles: 11.40
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.400.000.000.0016.40

AM before work: 2 miles fast walking around the neighborhood - birds chirping, sun shining... :)  30 minutes

Lunch Run - out and back to Tipton Champion Drive route (better).  9.35 miles - 1:17:28

1pm Dentist trip for the boys.  At 5 and 7 years old, and all the crazy careless people that apparently live in this town, this was an absolute debacle and cluster.  The dentist office was not ready for re-opening, had over booked appointments, and with our appts. at around lunch time, we were there for over 2 hours mostly waiting (in our car in the parking lot) and for the large group of people to sit out in the parking lot without masks not even pretending to social distance to be called in.  My wife actually went in with the boys and told me another horrifying incident from inside - in a pediatric dentist office, a grown man apparently was being seen and was insisting on getting whitening done (which the dentist refused and couldn't do anyway)... while coughing up a storm... GD! 

After finally getting out of there, followed that up with a decent curbside pickup from one restaurant (Smoothie Cafe), but, then a harrasment level experience from the Jimmy Johns employees.  Apparently, those little shits laughed at my wife for wearing a mask, none were wearing masks or gloves to prepare our raw food, and asked here mockingly if she was taking this seriously. 

:(  

Tough to get out the door for the rest of the mileage this evening: 5 miles around the neighborhood - 46 minutes.    

Blue Arahi 4 Miles: 16.40
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.300.000.000.007.30

Easy 5 miles around 2pm today.  Found some more lakes to run around.  About 43minutes.  Weather really cooled off.  

Walked 2.3 for that guy that got shot.  

Blue Arahi 4 Miles: 7.30
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
24.003.000.000.0027.00

Long Run: Tipton Stones Ultra - tried to run every cul-de-sac and road in Tipton Lakes and snap a quick picture of the stone headings the neighborhood puts at the head of the sub-sections (there is a bunch :)  Looks like I picked up 17 of them on the Strava post, but missed a couple of roads. 

Wore the hydration pack with full water bottles and a couple of Clif Bars.  The hard shell water bottles (Jurek hydration pack) are pretty harsh on the rib cage when full.  The gatorade electrolyte mix and clif bars were pretty much the perfect fuel, but, the pace was pretty slow today, intentionally.  Plan was to run easy pace for a while, go at least 4 hours and throw faster stuff in at the end.  Pretty cool to get exactly 27 and 4 hours :) 

The weather could not have been much better - a little chilly at first.  Did have to get the gear in place for a couple of miles (like shed 2 layers), settle down after the headphones crapped out, and make a number 2 stop off in the woods, but overall, pretty seemless.  All the turning and stop and go on pavement has the legs pretty sore.  

Blue Arahi 4 Miles: 27.00
Weight: 150.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
94.6511.001.700.00107.35
Saucony Iso 2 - Gray Miles: 13.00Blue Arahi 4 Miles: 86.40Red Peregrine Velcro Miles: 7.95
Weight: 150.60
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