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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
74.204.0010.450.6089.25
Saucony Guide 7 Miles: 24.30Saucony Kinvara 5 Miles: 40.35Ravenna 5 - Red Miles: 17.60New Balance 870v3 Miles: 7.00Elliptical Miles: 1.00Vilano Road Bike Miles: 10.20
Weight: 149.47
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.300.000.000.0016.30

AM Long Run - Warm and muggy.  Explored some fun new road out carr hill that turns to Youth CampRd. Some good hill climbing and forested areas.  16.3 miles total - 2:19:22

Saucony Guide 7 Miles: 16.30
Weight: 149.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.304.005.700.0018.00

Lunch run - very hot and humid.  Some serious heat out on the new blacktop on some of the county roads around the office.  Attempted at some TH work. 4mi. MP, 0.5, 0.5, 0.25 TH.

really struggled in the heat. 8 miles total - 58:11

8pm track intervals. 7x1k at 10k pace w/ 1min. jog btwn.  Temps Cooled off a lot since noon.  Struggled with gut issue nonetheless and a lot of calories still sitting in my stomach.  WU for 30min. until that went away.

3:41, 3:44, 3:44, 3:42, 3:39, 3:41, 3:40.  Hmmm - not quite there to go for sub 36 next week.

10miles total - 1:12:14

Saucony Guide 7 Miles: 8.00Saucony Kinvara 5 Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

Slow and hurting.  Lunch time run on the Canal in Indy. 5 miles.

Ravenna 5 - Red Miles: 5.00
Weight: 151.40
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.400.001.600.0013.00

Lunch time run - sprinkled in 16x strides of random length and time. 7 miles total - 52min.

Evening run after the creatures in bed - 6miles slow

Ravenna 5 - Red Miles: 6.00New Balance 870v3 Miles: 7.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.600.000.000.006.60

AM before work - 10 min. elliptical. 20 min. of core and strength/mobility work at the gym.

Lunch - 6.6 miles - ran over to house across town that we are interested in - 57:24

PM after bedtime - 10.2 miles on bike - about 16miles.  Wanted this to be a run, but, I'm just too beat up. 

Elliptical Miles: 1.00Vilano Road Bike Miles: 10.20Ravenna 5 - Red Miles: 6.60
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Race: Firecracker 5k (3.107 Miles) 00:17:57, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
26.600.003.150.6030.35

AM Series 5k Race: WU with jog over to race course, register and then ran course and added 4 or 5 strides in closer to race start.  Did a lot better gettingto the start line and not feeling the stomach issues.  Watched what I ate the last couple days and this morning and got a good amount miles in prior to race, with some strides.

REally felt at ease at start and watched the high school kids fly out (too fast) at the start.  Literally went from 5th to 1st in 0.25 after the 1 mile mark.  I wish the weather would have been this good last week when I time trialed at the track - about 65 degrees and overcast with lower humidity.  Didn't get hard until the hills started on mile 2 - splits:  5:42, 5:53, 5:35, 5:05 pace for the partial.

Did some cooldown, stuck around for awards, and on to 20 mile Long Run - 2:45:57 

30.35 total - A little over 4 hours

Saucony Kinvara 5 Miles: 30.35
Weight: 148.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
74.204.0010.450.6089.25
Saucony Guide 7 Miles: 24.30Saucony Kinvara 5 Miles: 40.35Ravenna 5 - Red Miles: 17.60New Balance 870v3 Miles: 7.00Elliptical Miles: 1.00Vilano Road Bike Miles: 10.20
Weight: 149.47
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