| Location: WA, Member Since: Feb 10, 2007 Gender: Male Goal Type: Local Elite Running Accomplishments: I was an 800/1500 runner in high school and college, with PRs of 1:55 and 4:08. I've run as fast as 16:15 for 5k and 1:20 for a half, but my bests in recent years are 17:07 5k (Dec. '11), 37:40 10k (Jan. '12), 1:23:49 half (Sept. '08), 2:53:12 marathon (September '10), and 4:45:06 50k (March '10). Short-Term Running Goals: Late 2015/2016 races:
— Seattle Soltice 10k (Dec. 19)
— Nookachamps half marathon (Jan. 16)
— Toyko Marathon (Feb. 28) Personal: I'm an editor at a newspaper in Bremerton, Washington and head coach of the Bremerton Jaguars youth track and field team. |
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| | Beautiful sunny morning, did the 11th-Shore Drive loop. Pretty good pace actually, felt surprisingly fresh for two days after a race. (No running Sunday, but stretched my legs out at softball practice.) 37:00 supernova glide -- 53
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| | Workout day, the race has me mindful of how much I need to get in gear with some faster miles. Nice morning, so I headed for Tracyton Beach Road. Two mile warmup, 7:30 pace, then three up-tempo miles. As always, the first mile on this route is too fast because it starts downhill. 5:46, then a 6:26 and a 6:03. Probably should have stretched for one more. But I slowed up and headed back home at a cool down pace. Felt really good to get back to that course, hadn't run it since last summer. 57:21 supernova glide -- 61
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| | After a day off to rest up a bit, I did an evening run. (It was pouring this morning, so I risked it. Totally paid off.) Started with three miles at a comfortable pace on the 11th-Shore loop, then cut up the Manette Hill Trail to Jacobson. Then did a short hill workout, approximately 300m (that's my best guess, I'll try to get more specific if possible) with 300m rest on each (about 1:30 to jog back downhill). It's not a really steep grade, but pretty good -- and Paul can attest to the hills in my neighborhood. Splits were 0:53, 0:59, 0:58, 0:59, 1:03 Pretty winded and beat by the last one, but a good workout. Cool down back home.
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| | Longer run than I expected for this morning, especially after a very fitful night of sleep and the sense of illness coming on. I knew Mike had been thinking about 18, and this other guy Henry wanted to join us, but after four hours of sleep I planned to bail on them halfway or something. But I got there, the dawn was nicer than I though, and my body gave me the big 10-4. So we went out Beach Drive to the 9 mile-mark past Manchester, turned around and came back. Mike and I turned near the end and added another mile (actually, he added two to hit 20). No watch, just went with what felt right. We were around 7:20 pace for most of the miles, but I don't have splits. For the week after a half I'm pretty fresh, no problems until just the usual breakdown on the last two. And that wasn't even too bad, just some fatigue. My back did a weird thing on the drive home and really stiffened up, and it kind of hurts along my spine when I sit. Odd, we'll see how that plays. I've had a small pain on one of my vertebrae here and there lately, usually after a run. Not constant pain, or even sharp, but I'm trying to stay aware and cautious. A trip to the chiropracter may not be a bad idea.
No long run next week, but hopefully more workouts and a bit more mileage to get over 40. I'll probably race again next Sunday, there's a trails run up north and those are good folks who put them on. It'd be nice if it didn't snow this time around.
supernova glide -- 85
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