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Havasu Turkey Trot

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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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Track night with Jim:

1 mile warm up 

6 x 100m strides with 100m jog rest

1/4 mile jog

8 x 200m with 200m jog recovery (36, 37, 36, 35, 36, 35, 35, 33 seconds)

1 mile cool down

Saturday is the local Turkey Trot (5k).  This was an easy workout that hopefully will get the legs feeling fast.  I have no clue what to expect Saturday.

HyperSpeed3 Miles: 5.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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4 easy miles to keep the legs fresh for Saturday.

Addistar Ride2 Miles: 4.00
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Race: Havasu Turkey Trot (3.1 Miles) 00:18:58, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.500.003.100.000.004.60

The local Turkey Trot (5K) was today.

My whole family participated.  Doone, Cade, Chase and I ran the 5 K.  Tally and Lane did the 2 mile walk.  It was windy, but the temp was about 60 degrees and it was sunny.  They moved the course this year to the island which made it a nice flat course as opposed the the crazy hill one we have been running.

Chase got 1st in the 12 and under AG, and Cade got 3rd in that same AG.  Doone is still recovering from her surgery, but finished strong.  Tally and Lane had a lot of fun doing the 2 mile walk with some other friends of ours.

I had no idea what to expect today.  I've only been running 3 days a week and not that far.  I have been doing speed work once a week though.  After a 1.5 mile warm up with a few strides thrown in, we towed the line for the start.  At the gun a bunch of the younger guys went flying out,  I held back and ran with a three other guys that I new were about my pace.  When we hit the first mile at 5:45 I figured I was in big trouble.  I pulled back a little bit with one of the other guys I was running with and the other two kept going.  Mile 2 was 6:18.  I quickly did some math and realized that I'd just have to run barely under 7 for the last 1.1 to set a PR.  I focused on one runner that had been well ahead of me the entire race but seemed to be slowly coming back to me and tried to slowly real him in.  I caught him with a little more than 1/4 mile to go and ran right past him.  Mile 3 was 6:18.  I gave it everything I had averaging 5:22 for the last 0.1 and to my surprise and delight finished in 18:58.  A new PR by 1 second! I guess I was in better shape than I thought I was.  I finished 5th overall and 1st in the 40-49 AG.  

 

Asics Tarther Miles: 4.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.500.003.101.000.0013.60
HyperSpeed3 Miles: 5.00Addistar Ride2 Miles: 4.00Asics Tarther Miles: 4.60
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