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Location:

Lake Havasu City,AZ,

Member Since:

Sep 29, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

23 marathons

6 Bostons (2007-2011, 2017)

3 Half Ironmans

2 Ironmans

3 50 Milers

1 Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim

Marathon PR:

     2:59:00 St. George 2008

     2:58:03 Boston 2010

 1/2 Marathon PR:

     1:25:41  Havasu Half 2009

     1:24:09 Painter's St.George 2010

 Half Ironman PR:

      5:25:02  HITS Havasu 2014

5K PR:

       18:23  LHC Turkey Trot 2014

        18:22  LHC Turkey Trot 2017

50 mile PR:

        7:56:14 Avalon50 2016

Short-Term Running Goals:

Break 3 hours again

Doing it a Boston would be sweet!

It was sweet!

UPCOMING RACES

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Have fun!

 

Personal:

Married

4 kids

Optometrist

 

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It was only 74 degrees when I awoke this morning, so I had to do another outside run.  I decided to do the same 8 mile run I did on Fri.  While running I realized this would be a good way to test RW's heat and pace theory.  I tried to run at the same effort level I did Friday, which I would say was at the hard end of Easy.  I ended up averaging 22 secs per mile faster when the temp was 20 degrees cooler.  There were other factors as well though.  I took water with me today and I ate before I ran today.  Friday I had no water, almost died, and I ran without eating before hand.  So while I was a bit faster in the cooler temp. (but not nearly as fast as RW's predictions) there were also other factors that helped me be faster.

8 hilly miles  1:04:55

SpeedStar 2 Miles: 8.00
Comments
From Burt on Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:41:20 from 68.76.197.194

Super job!

From DonGardinero on Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 14:06:27 from 75.162.177.101

Awesome!!! How much different was the weight loss after this run compared to Friday's run?

From RivertonPaul on Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 17:35:49 from 67.42.27.114

Nice to disprove Runners World over-generalization.

From Smooth on Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 19:34:49 from 71.36.70.24

AWESOME job and testing the RW theory in particular! 8 miles already! YES! SWEET!!!!!

From Kathie on Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 23:46:34 from 207.155.176.10

Nice to see you running again Rhett!

From Teena on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 00:03:29 from 67.177.20.13

I love seeing you enter miles!!

Nice job.

How did the talks go? Did you already comment on that?

From Huans32 on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:44:52 from 138.64.2.76

Great job on the strong recovery. Your looking good. I can sure see the difference with the temps this morning on my run. Verses running them when it is 20-30 degrees hotter in the evening. Glad to see your recovering and back to running.

From Rhett on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 14:54:49 from 74.32.212.114

Dale, I only lost 2 lbs on this run compared to the 7 lbs (if I remember correctly) on Friday.

Teena, Doone gave a fabulous talk. Every time I see a member of the church the rave to me how great it was. Mine went well too.

Thanks everyone else. It is great to be a runner again. I'm amazed at how much more I get accomplished every day when I take some time to run.

From fly on the Wall on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 19:12:31 from 168.179.215.242

8 miles and no mention of "foot" or "pain" :)

My casual observation is that the heat seems to be a bigger factor the faster I try to run. That is recovery pace isn't as slowed as tempos and intervals. And of course the longer I run the more I feel the heat until I get to a point where my body just slows itself way, way down. I presume this is some sort of nervous system defense strategy trying to avoid heat stroke.

Intuitively I also expect heats slowing effect is non linear. That is a 55 to 85 increase will not slow you down as much as an 85 to 115 increase.

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