| Location: Bar Harbor,ME,USA Member Since: Jul 31, 2015 Gender: Male Goal Type: Recover From Injury Running Accomplishments: PRs (<25 yo; >35 yo)
5k: 17:15
10 mile: 59:27
1/2 marathon: 1:23:11
Marathon: 2:56:38 Short-Term Running Goals: Get healthy, run pain-free. Have had sciatic nerve issues since 2009, damaged knee cartilage early 2015, so have been a jogger for a while. Long-Term Running Goals: Do well in the 50s age group, keep running pain-free. Personal: Married, science writer/editor, enjoy life on the coast of Maine |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 73.75 | 11.35 | 85.10 |
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| Hoka Bondi Miles: 33.90 | Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 51.20 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Nice ocean breeze today, so I worked the uphills a little bit. Felt OK, not great.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Schooner Head w 3x the big hill fairly hard both up and down. Trying to adapt.
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| Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Cool, lovely morning. Very nice easy run with Ben around Compass Harbor and Schooner Head.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Good hill run, longest of the year I think. Gained 400 feet in 4 miles, went down a steep hill, then turned around, went up and then down. Kept the knee and the sciatic mostly in check, though miles 5-7 were a little challenged. Fastest mile of the day was the 9th and last. Feeling good for Reach the Beach in 11 days.
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| Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Originally planned 5, but HHH weather, then the sun came out in full force just before my run. It was easy to turn around at 4 given that it was just a gear oil run anyway.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.75 | 1.75 | 6.50 |
| Ran 1.5 mile warmup, then 6 x 2:00 hard w/ 2:00 recoveries. Paces were kind of depressing for the effort spent, but I haven't done any speedwork, so the turnover is really not there. Ended with 7:28; 6:49; 6:58; 7:06; 7:25; and 6:58 on varied terrain. Warmed down about 2.25 miles.
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| Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 6.50 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Was going for an easy 5, but work meetings shrank it to 4. Probably not a bad thing given the hard run yesterday.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.50 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| Good run, Aunt Betty plus more up Around the Mountain. Gained about 350 feet of elevation in a little more than a mile, was able to keep chugging up at ~9:00 pace, then sub 8:00s down again. Will have to call this good for RtB.
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| Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 8.50 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Slow Schooner Head with Ben before work. Steamy but cool, felt pretty bouncy.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 1.00 | 5.00 |
| Ran 1.5 warmup, 6 x 1:00 hard, 1:00 recovery, 2 mile cooldown. Paces reflected hilly terrain and ranged from 7:44 up the steepest part of Schooner Head to 6:07 on a gentle downhill. Tried to work on steady effort and smooth turnover.
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| Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| V slow 4 on a warm day. Guess my easy pace is grooved in, as all 4 miles were 9:16-9:19. Recovering from yesterday's pick-ups, easing off for Reach the Beach. More ready for that than I thought I'd be, will have to be ok with new, slower reality though.
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Reach the Beach leg 1 (2.9 Miles) 00:18:49 | | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 2.90 | 2.90 |
| First leg of Reach the Beach. Like jumping off a cliff, level for 1/2 a mile, then straight down Crawford Notch. Tried to run as smoothly as I could to keep my quads from getting trashed, ended up at about a 6:35 pace. It was bright sun and > 80 degrees, so I was very happy to have a short descent for this leg.
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Reach the Beach legs 2 and 3 (12.2 Miles) 01:35:30 | | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 5.70 | 12.20 |
| Leg 2, middle of the night, 6.5 miles with 700 feet of elevation gain and loss. The hill right out of transition was a wall. I've run up hills that steep, but they were always short--this went on for a mile, with the super steep part at least half of that. So that was a 9:25 mile, but the downhills helped make up for it and ended with a 7:57 pace overall, which is fine with me. Leg 3 was on rolling terrain and again hot and sunny, and I was very sore. So I'm happy that my slowest mile was my first (7:49) and I averaged about 7:35s overall. I'm still slower than I'd like to be, but progress is being made.
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| Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 12.20 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Ow.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Ran w Ben. Hamstring still tweaked and burning. His calf was strained too, so it was slow. Still feel pretty fatigued too.
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| Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 73.75 | 11.35 | 85.10 |
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| Hoka Bondi Miles: 33.90 | Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 51.20 |
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