| 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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 36.48 | 0.00 | 6.22 | 1.00 | 43.70 |
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| Blue Nishiki 10 Speed Bike Miles: 66.10 | Brooks Ravenna 3 - Blue Miles: 21.71 | Brooks Ravenna 3 - Red Miles: 21.99 | Swimming Miles: 0.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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The left knee and both achilles tendons/calves were really hurting yesterday. Felt better today, but figured I needed a day off from running.
Cross training day - 19 miles on the bike. Rode out to Harrison Lake and did some loops around the parts I hadn't seen out there. What a nice ride :) Beautiful day. Felt good to do some biking and enjoy the weather. Will try riding to work Tuesday after I make sure I have the necassary gear for night riding in the morning, as well as the flat tire kit. Its 20 miles one way, so it should be a fun adventure!
Easy week this week on the running to get the knee feeling better and let the previous 3 weeks soak in. Cross training (hopefully some swimming to go along with biking) to hopefully shed some pounds. |
| Blue Nishiki 10 Speed Bike Miles: 19.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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PM Run outside: 90 degress, sunny
8 miles easy - 1:07:38 - feeling good, taking it easy... |
| Brooks Ravenna 3 - Blue Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.68 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 5.68 |
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PM workouts: 90 degrees and sunny
3.36 mi. bike to TLAC to pick up race bibs/pins from Jeff - 12:26,
3.33 mi. bike home - 12:09
digging the new biking XT !
track workout: 2 mi. WU w/ strides - 14:29, 2x800m @ mile pace - 2:18, 2:23 w/ 1 mi. rec.
easy 1.61 mi. jog home for CD - 14:32 |
| Blue Nishiki 10 Speed Bike Miles: 6.69 | Brooks Ravenna 3 - Red Miles: 5.68 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
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5AM Bike to work:
20.38 mi. from Columbus, IN to Seymour, IN on mostly county roads this morning. Nice ride! Half of it in the dark. The chain actually slipped a lot and came off on CR 950. Hope that doesn't happen on the busier roads or Sand Creek Bridge! Several scary parts, but not as bad as I thought it was going to be. AM ride was slow with several stops -- 1:21:34 (15 mph) 5PM Bike home from work: 20.03 miles Seymour to Columbus, same route in reverse. Somehow, even with rush hour traffic heavy in parts. the ride home was much better, car wise - everybody seemed to content to be patient when they couldn't get passed -- thanks :) -- also much faster - 1:10:23 (17.1 mph) IT was pretty fun -- I actually had to pick up the bike when I discovered a newly dug trench in a construction zone I had cut through in the morning :)
The bike is an old clunker that weighs a ton! I gotta bust my ass to get that thing at 20 mph consistently. got home and was a little tight in the shoulders and back, but it felt good to get some good burn in without killing the running legs. 4mi. easy around the neighborhood - 32:33
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| Blue Nishiki 10 Speed Bike Miles: 40.41 | Brooks Ravenna 3 - Blue Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Easy 8 mi. to get the lead out after yesterday's bike ride (and last night's horrible calf cramp :() 1:02:33 (9:00, 8:04, 7:30's rest of way)
took a couple mi. to get going, but legs felt fresh and ready for another double race weekend (maybe triple, if the wife doesn't care :)) Tomorrow night - 5k in Seymour,IN at 8pm. Sprint for Nick 5k - race that I'm helping to organize for a fellow employee's 9 yr old son recently diagnosed with leukemia. Saturday morning - 5k in Columbus, start line is 3 miles from the house :) Chose of 5k or sprint tri in Indy on Sunday!!
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| Brooks Ravenna 3 - Red Miles: 8.00 |
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Sprint for Nick 5k (3.11 Miles) 00:18:58, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.20 | 0.00 | 3.11 | 0.00 | 8.31 |
| AM: easy 2mi. run, 10 min. in the pool attempting to swim (backstroke, mostly) - call it about 400m After hauling/lifting/loading and unloading stuff from 1pm up through race time and marking the course and at 4PM: Sprint for Nick 5k jog of course, I started the race pretty tired...
8pm: Sprint for Nick 5k Race - 18:58 Tom was there and was ahead by his usual cushion for the whole race. He ran something like 18:15. It turned out to be sunny still, and in the mid 80s. The course mostly flat and shaded, but I could feel the day's work in my tired legs. No big deal. We raised about $1000 for this kid, so mission accomplished. :) Get well, Nick!!
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| Swimming Miles: 0.25 | Brooks Ravenna 3 - Red Miles: 8.31 |
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Run with the Angels 5k (3.11 Miles) 00:18:35, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.60 | 0.00 | 3.11 | 0.00 | 9.71 |
| AM: easy 3.3 mi. to race, 5k Race - About 80 people, mostly walkers, in the race. 2 high school kids took off down the hill from the start line on Goeller, so I cautiously stayed back a couple meters. One came back immediately, and the other slowed a little but built a 50m lead in the first mile. I was right on the pace I wanted and was feeling last nights race a little, so decided it would be wise to not worry to much about him. Decent even split run - 18:35 (5:58s) 3.3 mi. back to house. Plan is to run in PM: WU 1 mi., 8mi. MP, 1 mi. CD
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| Brooks Ravenna 3 - Blue Miles: 9.71 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 36.48 | 0.00 | 6.22 | 1.00 | 43.70 |
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| Blue Nishiki 10 Speed Bike Miles: 66.10 | Brooks Ravenna 3 - Blue Miles: 21.71 | Brooks Ravenna 3 - Red Miles: 21.99 | Swimming Miles: 0.25 |
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