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Location:

Bountiful,Ut,USA

Member Since:

Sep 22, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

 

5k  18:44  4 July 2012 C-ville 
10K  38:22  24 July 2012 DesNews
Half  1:22:30  18 Aug 2012  Hobble 
Full  3:00:35  29 Sep 2012 Huntsville

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sign up for a race > 5k, run well.

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep on running. 

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Trails Lifetime Miles: 551.40
Grass Lifetime Miles: 72.50
Pavement Lifetime Miles: 2225.20
Stroller Lifetime Miles: 438.80
Navy Crocs Lifetime Miles: 378.70
Nordic Track TM Lifetime Miles: 1015.77
Green Mirage 2 Lifetime Miles: 494.70
Orange Mirage 3 Lifetime Miles: 514.90
Glow In The Dark Mirage 3 Lifetime Miles: 461.25
Navy Blue Mirage Lifetime Miles: 216.90
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
37.908.4046.30
Green Mirage 2 Miles: 8.00Stroller Miles: 4.00Glow In The Dark Mirage 3 Miles: 38.30
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.000.008.00

8:30 pm.  There are only a couple of times a year where an opportunity like last night presents itself.  The clouds were blowing in from the south, threatening, just as we finished helping a neighbor load the U-haul.  I came home with my son, checked the baseball scores, and the rain started, intensified, and persisted.  After wasting 10 minutes of the hardest downpour, I got into an older pair of shoes, and headed out.  By 3 miles, the rain stopped, but it picked up again in earnest for the final mile.  Great run.

Marathon training plan for the next three weeks:

8, 9, 8, 20 (find some downhill)

8, 9, 8, 9, 14 (find some downhill)

8, 9, 8, 9, 20 (try to finish fast)

That should get me to a taper window.  

Green Mirage 2 Miles: 8.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

4 with Tami, and Jack in the stroller.  He was in a bad mood, but the run sorted him out.  We started out with clouds and a bit of rain, and ended with muggy, steamy, sunny conditions.  

Days like this in August are a treat.  

Stroller Miles: 4.00Glow In The Dark Mirage 3 Miles: 4.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.004.008.00

2 mile warmup, then 8x800 with 1 minute recoveries.  Goal pace was 3:00.  Well, Jasmine and Cynthia are in a different class than me.  I held on for the first one, then lagged 5-15 seconds behind their breakneck speed.  After 4, I desperately wanted to play the old man card, and take one off, but I couldn't wimp out.  I started keeping my own time at this point, and was gratified to find we were well under 3:00, so I relaxed a little bit and let them run away.  I finished out the set, and kept them around 2:55, +/- 4 seconds.

Sprinklers on the 3rd turn of each lap kept us nice and cool/soaked.

What a killer workout.  2 mile cooldown. 

Afterward I was so wiped out/lazy, I didn't make it to work till 9.  It was nice to be home in the morning to feed and bathe some kids.

Glow In The Dark Mirage 3 Miles: 8.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.900.006.90

Farmington and back with a lap around the park.  Baby Gaby was fussing, so he came along for the ride.  I inadvertently left Anna behind.  She was so eager to come along she talked Tami into bringing her to meet me, hence the park lap.  Lucky I brought my phone.  Usually it stays home.  Hot out.

Glow In The Dark Mirage 3 Miles: 6.90
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
15.004.4019.40

Long run.  Met Jasmine and Cynthia 4 miles in.  We ran on Legacy to Shepherd land, then back on Main Street.  They dropped off at Glover, I continued solo home, then back to Smoot Park for tennis practice and a soak in the creek.  Garmin died, so I had to map this one.  Overall pace was under 8 minutes, including stops.  Last couple miles I timed, and was at 7:20 pace, working very hard.  I am tentatively encouraged by this run.  One more 20 miler in this truncated training cycle...

Glow In The Dark Mirage 3 Miles: 19.40
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
37.908.4046.30
Green Mirage 2 Miles: 8.00Stroller Miles: 4.00Glow In The Dark Mirage 3 Miles: 38.30
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