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Location:

Riverton,UT,

Member Since:

May 06, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:


PR Marathon

2:51:33 (St. George 2009)

3:01:00 (St. George 2008)

3:09:52 (St. George 2007)

3:24:48 (St. George 2006)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Improve training. Get serious, lose weight.

Improve speed.


Long-Term Running Goals:

Lifetime fitness, including running.

 

Personal:

Married with 4 kids. I live in Riverton and work as an attorney downtown in Salt Lake City.

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Mon, Sep 08, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.002.000.0012.00

7 miles easy 8:30 pace, random incline to 1.5%.  Tired legs, but wanted to finish faster so 3 more at -3.0% decline at 7:00 pace followed by 1 at 6:45 and last 1 mile at 6:20.  My legs seemed to wake up at the faster pace, which was nice.

 Followed the run with 30 minute core class.

Comments
From rockness18 on Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 17:44:58

You are an animal with the mileage. I'll be interested to see how you do in your next marathon with a taper.

From RivertonPaul on Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 17:50:48

Thanks Rockness. I've never run this much but seem to have been able to handle the increase. I am scheduled to run Top of Utah in Logan, Utah on the 20th of this month. It was going to be my last marathon of the season, but I got in to the St. George, Utah Marathon two weeks later. St. George is a faster course, so I've got to decide how to approach the two marathons.

From Tom on Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 18:03:10

Paul I would say for TOU run it very easy, similar to your other training runs. Maybe even bag it or bail out after 16-20 miles if you truly want to do your best at St. George. I know very few runners who have been able to pull of a good marathon just 2 weeks after another marathon, especially if they race the 1st one. And sometimes really bad things happen (injury-wise -- just ask my hamstrings) after doing 2 hard marathons close together.

Perhaps since you've been able to handle the increase in mileage without troubles you might be the exception and you will run well at both races, but I think for most runners it doesn't work out so well. Just my 2 cents.

BTW in my case even when I say I'll run a race like a "training" run, it rarely turns out that way. It's just too tempting to want to RACE when it's a RACE and you are surrounded by people who are racing.

Good luck to you whatever you decide.

From RivertonPaul on Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 18:10:06

Tom, I agree, that happened to me two years ago when I did them both (less training, but still) I sort of tweenered TOU, got sick, was disappointed at St. George.

From a family harmony point, I can't now bail on TOU since its the one the family is going to.

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