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Location:

Greenville,SC,

Member Since:

Feb 24, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I also maintain a blogspot running blog. Check it out. 

5k- 16:01, 1/2 marathon- 1:11:37, marathon- 2:34:16, 50k- 3:58, 100 mile- 15:19

Former World Record holder in 100 x 5k relay 

Ultra history:

8-100 mile, 1-100k, 9-50 mile, 2-40 mile, 14-50k-ish

12 wins, 5 CR's, plus four 2nd, five 3rd, 4th, 4th, 5th, 5th, 9th, 16th, 20th, 28th, 38th, and 62nd place, with 1 DNF 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Goals 

Enjoy running, stay fit (and maybe lose a few pounds). Play ultimate frisbee.

4 year coach of Langston Middle School- love it

Long-Term Running Goals:

Unretire at some point

Run a sub-6 hr 50 miler

Win a 100 mile ultramarathon

Personal:

I have five cute kids. And I have some rockin short green racing shorts- I wear them mainly because it embarrasses my wife so much. I like ultimate frisbee, trail running, reading, and cheering for the Denver Broncos!   And I have the absolute best wife in the world.  And I used to run for the now-disbanded national Team Pearl Izumi- Ultra!

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Miles:This week: 15.50 Month: 55.50 Year: 154.50
Fastwitch Lifetime Miles: 82.50
Trail N1 Lifetime Miles: 86.50
Road N1 Lifetime Miles: 31.00
Trail M2 Lime/black Lifetime Miles: 297.00
Road M3 Grey And Yellow Lifetime Miles: 324.00
Road N2 Purple 2 Lifetime Miles: 222.50
Road N2 4 Grey Lifetime Miles: 51.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.502.003.000.000.0013.50

Big workout- ran to the fairgrounds where I met Paul.  We ran easy till I was at 4 miles, then started 2 miles of (semi) tinman tempo pace (supposed to be 6:15 pace, was 6:30 pace).  I was purposely going a bit slow so we could keep talking, cause it was still hot out even though we started at 7 pm, and to save some for my later workout.  We finished the tempo and Paul dropped me off at LHS track, where I warmed up a bit till I was at 6.5 miles.

Workout was 4x4 min at CV pace fartlek (supposed to be 5:30-5:35, though the heat put a damper on my expectations) with 2 min slow jog recovery.  I messed up the watch on my first one, so stopped at 1100 meters and estimate it was 5:45 pace.  Second one was 5:46 pace (based on hitting 1100 m at 3:58- that is how I calculated my pace for all of these).  Third was 5:43, and the last one was 5:26 pace- I pushed it a bit more on that one and actually came with about 20 meters of hitting 1200 m before the clock struck 4.

Cooled down by doing just over 1 mile on the track, then jogged home.  Counting everything, I figure it was 13.5 miles, 1:36:29.  Good workout, though it would be nice to do this in 50 deg weather.

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Comments
From Adam RW on Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 14:29:10

Great workout. But it sounds like it requires too much thought. I would have got lost in the numbers/distance after the first repeat...

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