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Location:

Alexandria,VA,USA

Member Since:

Jun 03, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

4:34 mile, DC RR Mile, 2007

15:39 5k, Occidental College, 2007

25:52 8k, Rockville Twilighter, 2007

32:54 10k, Shelter Island (tough course!), 2004

49:30 15k, Tulsa Run, 2001

52:21 10 mile, Broad Street Run, Philly (fast course!), 2007

1:08:49 half marathon, Hobble Creek (downhill), 2001

2:28:55 marathon, St. George (downhill), 2006

2:33:04 marathon, Chicago, 2001

Short-Term Running Goals:

15:20 5k

4:25 mile

2:26:00 marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

sub 15:00 5k

sub 2:22:00 marathon

Personal:

I live in Alexandria, VA, but still consider myself affiliated with Wasatch Athletics in Salt Lake City, UT, and High Noon A.C. in Ithaca, NY. My coach is Demetrio Cabanillas.

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Utica, NY, 1:36:21

Ran around Utica and caught glimpses of the Boilermaker at miles 2 and 9.  Dennis and Michelle Simonaitis were running the race.  It was very hot out there.  The performances were impressive. 

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Took a day off, finally. I looked back and had not had a day off in over a month. The result from Sat has made me start to re-evaluate some things and one thing I think I'll try this fall is to take a day off each week. Should be an interesting experiment.

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noon: Clopper 10 1:14:53, 101 deg F!!

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noon: NIST 6 41:52, HOT!

p.m.: track workout, Washington-Lee H.S.

3 mi warm up/2 mi cool down

9 sets of drills (~2 miles) + 20 x 400m with 200 rest

73.9, 74.1, 74.0, 74.5, 74.8,

74.3, 74.4, 73.6, 75.2, 74.1,

73.2, 72.9, 74.0, 72.8, 72.2,

72.8, 72.8, 73.2, 72.3, 72.2.

 

Very hot, very humid! The goal of this workout was to run each set of five with a negative average split, starting with 5k pace (75) and working down. I was somewhat successful, though there were certainly occasions where I lost concentration. By the time I was done it literally looked like I had jumped in a swimming pool. I'll bet I lost 5 lbs in water weight. I took a short water break after each set of 5.

By the way, you might noticed that I changed my picture to highlight the fact that XC season is just around the corner!

 

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noon: NIST 6 42:55, nice weather finally!

pm: Bethesda 6 42:36
 

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noon: Clopper 10 1:16:09

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Temple 10 1:05:40.  I did a 25 min warm up on CC trail on my usual 10 mile course and then did 10 x 1 min on/off fartlek at between 1 mile and 2 mile race pace for my "on". Not sure if this is the optimal workout right now, but I felt terrible this morning -- woke with a tension headache and just could not stomach the thought of mile repeats. Given that I already did 5 miles worth of speed on Wed and this is only a 75 mile week I figured about 2 miles of speed would be sufficient (the 10% rule of thumb). Maybe it is even excessive. I have to admit that I am sort of flailing mentally right now. Last weekend really shook my confidence in my training. I think this simply means it is time to rebuild. But I am committed to this 8k next Sat. So I am just trying to give myself a fighting chance there. Then I'll try to refocus with a coherent plan.

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