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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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Sadie's Miles: 11.00Ralphie's Miles: 9.00
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Double to to catch up (because that's the healthy way to make up for missed miles)

AM: 7 miles before work.  Still feeling  a little cold ridden.  Recovery pace (8:20 miles)

PM: 7 miles.  I've decided to track how many miles I run with the doggies because why not?  Split the run up between them, average pace: 8:37.  Left shin is acting up again, need to start doing my silly PT excerices and icing more regularlly

Sadie's Miles: 4.00Ralphie's Miles: 3.00
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AM: 4 miles nice and easy on the old railroad grade.  Pretty windy out but it was warm enough to wear shorts and a T-shirt  Pace: 7:51

PM: 7 miles on the treadmill watching Anchorman.  Easy 8:21 pace (but it always feels harder on the treadmill).  I need to oil the belt, it's telling me to but it's such a PITA.

 Leg is still holding steady with stretching and icing

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7 miles with the pooches at base pace (7:40)

Sadie's Miles: 4.00Ralphie's Miles: 3.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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MLR, 10 miles after work.  7:34 pace.  Felt pretty good but medial right calf is sore still.  boo!

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Double dog recovery run.  Nice and easy @8:14.

 

I'm trying this new thing for giggles.  Sport Tracks has this Training Load plugin. http://www.zonefivesoftware.com/sporttracks/plugins/?p=training-load that will give TRIMP scores and other metrics of fatigue. (What is TRIMP, fellrnr.com/wiki/TRIMP and http://the5krunner.com/2012/07/14/training-load-plugin-for-sporttracks-interpretation-and-use-in-a-real-life-example/).

Any option on using these markers? I'm going to collect data during my Boston training but not use it to guide training. Hopefully retrospectively I could gain some insight that I could apply to future training.

At least I'll have a cool graph to look at at the end Might be fun, probably will be useless. Not sure but I will need to get used to wearing my HR band all the time.

Sadie's Miles: 3.00Ralphie's Miles: 3.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Long run.  14m at 7:40 pace. It was a pretty crappy run. Felt totally beat and couldn't get comfortable. My pace and effort were all over the place, I blame it on my cold

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Sadie's Miles: 11.00Ralphie's Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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