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August 2013

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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
106.500.000.000.000.00106.50
Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 93.50Sketchers R Miles: 13.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

1 hour 10 minute lake swim.  I went a little farther than I meant to, but I survived.

10 miles easy on TM

Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 10.00
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10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

10 easy on TM

Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 10.00
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2 hours on bike trainer followed by a 3 mile run.

This week I open water swam for 2 hours and 2 minutes, cycled for 4 hours and ran 53 miles. Next week will be a recovery week.

Sketchers R Miles: 3.00
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1 hour bike trainer

3 miles running afterwards

Sketchers R Miles: 3.00
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AM

10 easy miles on the TM

PM 34 minute lake swim

Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 10.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
13.000.000.000.000.0013.00

AM

10 easy on TM

PM

1 hour bike trainer followed by 3 mile run outside.

Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 13.00
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AM

10 miles easy on TM

PM 34 minute lake swim in very choppy water. I guess that is good practice in case it is windy on race day.

Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 10.00
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10 easy on TM

Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 10.00
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1 1/2 hours riding with my buddy Blake who I am doing the half ironman with. It was fun to get the bike off the trainer and onto the roads.

I was going to do a recovery week week this week but I realized I have early morning training at work all week next week to learn the new electronic health records system so I did another hard week this week and will significantly cut back next week.

Week totals

68 minutes swimming, 3 1/2 hours biking, 46 miles running

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

1 hour bike trainer

3 miles running right after

Sketchers R Miles: 3.00
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68 minute lake swim right after work.  I probably went about 2 1/4 miles. I'm really starting to enjoy the swim part of tri training.

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1 hour bike trainer followed by 3 mile run

Sketchers R Miles: 3.00
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73 minute lake swim

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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My early morning work training finished yesterday so I had time to get a run in before work today.

10 miles TM easy

My legs felt great after taking an easy recovery week from running.

Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 10.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.500.000.000.000.005.50

I ran 5.5 miles with Jeff this morning. He has been my Saturday morning running buddy for the last year. Unfortunately he is moving this week. I will miss his friendship, especially on those dark, cold long run mornings.

2 hour bike trainer at night.

Here are my recovery week totals. I need to get my running miles back up around 50 for the next few weeks.

Swim 141 minutes, Bike 4 hours, Run 21.5 miles

Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 5.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

10 easy miles on the TM.  My legs felt great today and I really wanted to run some fast miles, but I showed discipline and never went faster than  7:30.

30 minute lake swim.  I cut it short because the lake was covered with this mossy stuff and it was nasty.  I couldn't wait to get home and shower. I hope that is gone by Thursday.

Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 10.00
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4.500.000.000.000.004.50

What a difference a day makes. I felt so good yesterday and just wanted to run fast.  Today my right soleus muscle felt a bit tight when I started running and it just seemed to get worse and worse. Finally at 4.5 miles I stopped my run short and road the stationary bike for 40 minutes. I'm not sure what I did to it, but hopefully it feels better tomorrow.

 

PM

1 hour on the bike trainer hard. I then treated my calf with my electromagnetic wrap. It is already stating to feel better. Hopefully I'll be able to run tomorrow.

Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 4.50
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AM

56 minute lake swim.  The lake was beautiful again

 

PM

0.5 mile TM run and then I started to feel a little twinge in my calf and decided to do some cross training and give the calf another couple days of recovery.

10 minutes of stair TM intervals

60 minutes elliptical

20 minutes stationary bike

Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 0.50
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1 hour bike trainer hard

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I was going to go cycling with Blake this morning but we actually had a serious rain storm here in the desert, so we cancelled our ride. That left me back in the basement on my bike trainer watching Premier League soccer.

I rode for 2 1/2 hours. That is a long time in the aero bars.

Week totals

Swim 86 minutes, Bike 4 1/2 hours, Run 15 miles, Cross Train 70 minutes

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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1 hour bike trainer, then I tried to run.  My calf felt fine at first and then about a mile in it tightened up so I stopped and walked home.  I guess I better give it a few more days.

Sketchers R Miles: 1.00
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AM

1 hour bike trainer.

PM

23 minute lake swim.

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AM

46minute lake swim

PM

1 hour bike trainer

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25 minute swim

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2 1/2 hour bike trainer

Week totals

Swim 94 minutes, bike 5 1/2 hours, run 1 mile

I sure hope my calf lets me run on it this week.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
106.500.000.000.000.00106.50
Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 93.50Sketchers R Miles: 13.00
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