Winning Back What I Lost

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Location:

Meridian,ID,US

Member Since:

Mar 31, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

PR's:

5K Beat Coach Pete Fun Run Boise, ID- 21:13(2009)

Meridan Barn Sour Days 10k, Meridian, ID- 41:32(2012)

Famous Potato Half Marathon, Boise, ID- 1:30:40 (2012)

Utah Valley Marathon, Provo, UT- 3:20:14 (2011)

Athlinks profile here.

Garmin Connect profile here.

Short-Term Running Goals:

2014 Racing Schedule and Goals:

-Get healthy

-St. George Marathon, October 4, 2014, St. George, UT

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run at least one marathon every year until I buy the farm.

Qualify for Boston Marathon.

Personal:

Started running in November 2007 to get fit. Now I'm back almost to square one after back surgery. I did it once and I'll do it again.

"In truth, runners don't race other runners. They race against themselves: to conquer their wills, to transcend their weaknesses, to beat back their nightmares. And while a runner can't actually beat himself, he can beat his time. Even years into running, he can get better." Running for His Life by Michael Hall.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
New Balance MR 1400 Lifetime Miles:						392.77
Saucony Kinvara 2 Lifetime Miles:						424.41
Saucony Kinvara 3 Lifetime Miles:						438.89
Saucony Ride 5 Lifetime Miles:						235.68
Brooks Launch (Blue/Yellow) Lifetime Miles:						282.52
Hoka Rapa Nui Tarmac's Lifetime Miles:						181.17
Hoka Clifton (Blue)(2) Lifetime Miles:						164.15

Wed, Jul 15, 2009

Total Distance

10.70

640AM: Nice temp this morning, low 60's, w/ a little breeze and bright sunshine. The kind of morning that makes it easy to run. My Garmin failed on me again but after a hard reset it worked the last 3.5M or so. I'm so familiar w/ my running routes now that I don't even have to do a google map search to determine my distance. 4.6M easy, slow miles overall. My slow pace has improved to around 8:40/mi. It was 20 seconds slower back in April/May. As I noted on the discussion board, I've seen speed gains by consciously avoiding speedwork and increasing my mileage. One would think that you have to run fast to get faster but apparently there is more benefit to be gained from running more miles. I imagine that changes once a runner reaches a certain fitness level of running 80+ mpw.

1030PM: Extremely late start tonight. I was more than a little sluggish from eating a ton of pizza & breadsticks for dinner tonight. Slow, easy pace that picked up a little after 3M or so. I keep telling myself that I'll start getting my diet squared away again but its so difficult when there's so much grub around.

Got a physical tonight for the upcoming Boy Scouts' High Adventure Trip to the Frank Church in a couple of weeks. Been awhile since I've had to turn my head and cough and I could go at least another couple of decades before doing that again.

Wave Rider 12 Miles: 6.10	Wave Rider 12(2) Miles: 4.60

Comments

From loschi on Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:07:08 from 66.192.184.155

You have to have the oddest running schedule I've ever seen. 10pm and 6am. Those 6am's must be wretched. That's a hard time to run under the best circumstances much less 8 hours after your last run. Kudos to you.

From Neil on Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:43:07 from 164.165.24.5

Yeah it is. I'm not a morning person by any stretch and it takes me a couple of miles just to wake up and loosen up. Its more out of necessity than preference. I'm trying to avg 10 miles a day and its just much easier to run multiples than try to carve out a solid hour and a half to 2 hours in the evening (although I will do that tonight on my long run).

I may start going earlier in the evening and just hitting the treadmill at ID Athl Club. It's simply too hot for me until the sun gets lower in the sky.

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