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Location:

Buffalo,NY,

Member Since:

Aug 15, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Personal Bests
  • 1500m : 4:43 (May 2001)
  • 1 mile: 5:18 (August 2012) 
  • 5k: 17:39 (December 2003)
  • 8k: 30:02 (June 2003)
  • 10k: 37:21 (November 2003)
  • 15k : 59:48 (July 2012)
  • 10 miles: 62:39 (February 2002)
  • Half-Marathon (Covered Bridges): 1:23:29 (June 2002)
  • Marathon (Wineglass): 3:04:42 (Oct 2011)
  • Half Ironman (Tupper Lake): Swim 38:19, Bike 3:01:xx (with flat tyre change), Run 1:58:xx, Total time 5:44:44 (Jun 2004)

Short-Term Running Goals:

General Goals for 2013

  • Break 3 hours as Boston
  • Mile in 5:00
  • 5k in 17:30

Results and my 'A' Races for 2013 (Click for Race Report)

  • Y-10 10 Miler (February 9)
    • Goal: 63? (honestly, no idea)
    • DNS
  • Boston Marathon (April 15)
    • Goal: 2:57
    •  Time: 3:12:46
  • Springville Stampede (May 9)
    • Goal: 18:36
    • Time: 18:28
  • Chase Corporate Challenge 3.5 (June 6)
    • Goal: 20:30
    • Time: 20:30
  • Brian Moorman PUNT Foundation Blackbird 8K (June 19)
    • Goal: 30:00
    • Time: 30:03
  • Boilermaker 15k (July 14)
    • Goal 58:00
  • Mueller Mile (August)
    • Goal 5:00
  • Run into Buffalo 15k  (Sept 2)
    • Goal 57:30
  • Troy Turkey Trot 10k (Nov 28)
    • Goal 37:00

Long-Term Running Goals:

  1. Sub 3:00 Marathon
  2. 17:00 5k
  3. 1:20 Half-marathon

Personal:

Originally from the small town of Galway, NY (near Saratoga), I currently live in Buffalo, NY.  I'm a community pharmacist  I  graduated from the University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy with my pharmD in 2007 and my PhD in 2011. I'm married and have 2 dogs (Sadie, a lab, and Ralphie, a Eskie mix).  We enjoy anything outdoors from Backpacking and hiking to snowboarding.

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Sadie's Lifetime Miles: 298.30
Ralphie's Lifetime Miles: 346.60
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Brooks Adrenaline #2 Miles: 48.50
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Running MilesSwimming YardsBike Miles
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Long run on tired legs.  Did laps of the park so I could run the majority of it on cinders.  Overall pace was 8:03.  Felt good but both legs were sore, iced.  Glad tomorrow is a easy 4 mile day

Brooks Adrenaline #2 Miles: 15.10
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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3.900.000.00

Easy four miles (8:30 pace)

Brooks Adrenaline #2 Miles: 3.90
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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7.000.000.00

Ran home after work 7 miles.  Average pace was 7:19 which felt pretty easy overall, I think this training is paying off!

Brooks Adrenaline #2 Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Ran to the high school track to do 7x800 intervals with 400 recovery.  Goal was to run around 3 for each rep or a little faster.  Felt strong and each rep came and went without too much pain

Warm up was 1.6 mile run to the park
Then
Rep
Split time
Avg. HR
Max. HR
1
02:53.4      
 170 (88%)
178 (92%)
2
03:00.2      
171 (89%)
179 (93%)
3
02:56.7      
173 (90%)
180 (93%)
4
03:02.9      
171 (89%)
178 (92%)
5
03:01.6      
173 (90%)
177 (92%)
6
03:01.5      
167 (87%)
178 (92%)
7
02:56.0      
170 (88%)
180 (93%)
Then 1.5 mile cooldown

Brooks Adrenaline #2 Miles: 8.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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4.000.000.00

Real easy 4 miles with ashley riding her bike next to me.  No watch. 

Shins were again so I iced when I got home.  They seem to get sore after

a hard speed workout, gotta keep my eye on them

Brooks Adrenaline #2 Miles: 4.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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10 miles with the middle 9 at marathon pace.  I also wore my foot pod for fun to see what my cadence was.  The first/last 0.5 were slow (~8:30) and the middle 9 were 6:56 average with an average cadence of 89spm and a average HR of 169 (87% max).   It was a tough workout but about 3/4 of the way through I started to feel real loose and like I could easly go for another 3-4 miles w/o too much trouble. 

Shins were sore again so I iced.  The pain is very responsive to ice which is reassuring
 

Brooks Adrenaline #2 Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Brooks Adrenaline #2 Miles: 48.50
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