Rhett

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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

Mon, Oct 20, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
3.50	0.00	4.00	0.00	0.00	7.50

I didn't have to be into work until 10 this morning so I slept in a bit, helped the kids off to school and then did my run around 8. It's nice to run with the sun up. I warmed up for 1 mile and then dropped to a tempo pace and did 3 miles at 6:30. I was feeling a bit tired so I slowed to an easy pace for 2 miles and then I decided to pick it back up to tempo pace for the 7th mile. Halfway through I looked down at my watch and relized I was running a 6:12 pace and I felt good so I dropped the hammer and finished the mile hard. Did it in 6:03. Then I cooled down for half mile and called it a day. It was a good run to start the week.

Distance 7.5 miles

Avg. pace 7:11

Comments

From huans32 on Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:28:01

Dang dude. I would say you dropped the hammer down. Great run. What was your pace btw for SG on average??

From rhett on Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:30:26

My SGM pace was 6:50, 2 seconds faster than planned.

From huans32 on Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:32:44

Dang man. Once I catch up to Fly I will next have to catch up with you and Andy. You are diffently setting the bar way up there man. Cant wait to see what you do at Boston. Sub 3 would be totally awesome.

From Smooth on Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:59:14

Nice run, Rhett. Great feeling to pick up the pace like you did, 6:12, 6:03, WOW!!! You're an awesome runner. Have you registered for Boston?

From rhett on Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 14:59:29

Hi Smooth. I was just reading your blog. Sounds like you've been putting in some good miles and helping some others out along the way. Yes, I registered last week. Are you all set to go to Boston? You never mentioned cramping during SGM. Have you figured it out? I hope that never happens to you again.

From Smooth on Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 16:31:47

The last time I had cramping was at Park City. I didn't have any cramping issue at TOU or SGM. Not susre if I had it all figured out. I ran TOU with my niece & her husband and SGM with my friend, all first time marathoners at their paces. So it was like running lsd runs where cramping's never an issue. We'll see how it goes as I resume training for Boston.

I haven't registered for Boston yet. I will before the snow flies.

I love your posts and learn so much from your training. I started some core workout/strength training. I really like your 2 weeks approach. I'll be following your progress with interests. You're awesome.

From RivertonPaul on Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 18:09:40

Nice run. Have you ever looked at the stuff by "Tinman?" His ideas are here:

http://www.therunzone.com/ntrz/?page_id=3

and here:

http://forum.therunzone.com/forumdisplay.php?s=37c4c6a1edbd13a48020d0c7186bf398&f=3

Paul Peterson (paul.fastrunningblog.com) on the blog used to train with him and seems to have done well with his program. Curious as to what thoughts you might have.

From rhett on Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 14:52:21

Paul, there is a lot of info to digest there. It looks pretty informative. Give me a bit and I'll look at it some more, but at first glance it looks promising.

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