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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Salomon Sense Pro 4 Lifetime Miles: 320.00
Salomon Ultra Pro Lifetime Miles: 387.00
NB 1500 V6 Lifetime Miles: 219.00
Adizero Pro Lifetime Miles: 57.00
Hoka Clifton 8 Lifetime Miles: 346.00
Brooks Ghost 14 Lifetime Miles: 343.00
Brooks Ghost 14 #3 Lifetime Miles: 163.00
Inov8 G270 Lifetime Miles: 20.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.400.000.000.000.006.40

MORNING

It was not beautiful out this morning--raining, but I didn't wimp out.  I headed out into the rain for a recovery run, with last mile doing 10, 10 sec hill sprints.  6.4 miles 8:55 pace

EVENING

My legs were feeling a bit sore so I put on my exercise close, put on the "Prince Caspian" dvd I'd been wanting to watch, and watched it while I did some stretching, ab work, push ups, walking lunges, and a few other low intesity jumping exercises.  It was a pretty good movie and I still got in some exercise.

Cumulus Miles: 6.40
Comments
From Smooth on Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 16:12:38

GOOD JOB for not wimping out!!! Nice recovery run x2. Hmm, hill sprints at the end of a recovery run. You did that last week too. Any physiological insights? I wanna add some "spice" into my recovery run too, but not sure if I have the kinda young legs like yours to do that.

From Rhett on Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 16:24:43

I've been doing hill sprints at the end of my recovery runs for about a year now. I just find that by the end of running slowly for so long my legs just want to do something different. The 10 10 second hill sprints don't seem to take anything out of me as far a rcovery go, yet I always feel so much better after the run when I do them. Also I'm trying to teach my legs to turn over fast not log slow miles.

From Teena on Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 18:01:51

I love the rain!!

Nice run Rhett!! I need to try some of those hill sprints.

From DonGardinero on Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 18:54:53

Rhett...

It's fun shaking things up. Way to go getting out in the rain. I think I've suffered some psychological effects from being in the rain so long at SGM. I must overcome!!!

Dale

From Kathie on Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 19:27:12

So have you signed up for painters yet? It looks like you and fly might do well at the race... like I know what I'm talking about

From Rhett on Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 20:42:32

Kathie, I think tomorrow will be the day I make the cash commitment to doing Painter's. I've already started the preparation commitment. I might as well make it official. I read your blog. With as hard as you've been training I think you are ready for the PR.

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