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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
99.000.000.000.0099.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.000.000.000.0016.00

NOON:  Ugh!  This was a death march.  We had our band reunion last night and I was up until the wee hours.  I missed the 6:30 AM (relatively cool) run with McKinney and Jason and ended up getting to the river around 10:30.  I started feeling human again around mile 8 and then the sun stroke started to set in.  This run was basically 16 x 1 mile at 7:30-8:00 pace.  Brutal heat.  I went to the river because they have water fountains every mile.  So I just stopped and took a bath every mile.  I survived.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
18.000.000.000.0018.00

NOON: NIST 6 41:39

PM: 12, track, 3 mi warm up, 2 miles drills, 8 x 800 with 200 rest "cruise intervals"

2:36, 2:34, 2:33, 2:35, 2:35, 2:29, 2:32, 2:32

I did this workout with Joe and Mark from DC RR.  Joe suggested the workout.  According to McMillan, for someone in 15:30 5k shape, cruise intervals should be at 2:33 - 2:36.  So, we hit our marks pretty well.  In the end, this felt a bit too easy.  But maybe that is a good thing.  We are racing a deuce on Friday night.  Let's save the heroics for then.

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
18.000.000.000.0018.00

NOON: Clopper 10 1:14:30 + weights

Today I added two more arm exercises to my routine: pull backs (lean over the bench with back horizontal and pull back on the dumb bell) and incline press.

PM: 8 miles, 57:36, around Placid Lake in Germantown after helping a friend move from his 4th floor apt!  Man, I am dead.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.000.000.000.0016.00

NOON: 10 NIST, treadmill, 1:14:00.  It was like 98 F today.  No thanks.

PM: 6 NIST, treadmill, 44:13.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.000.000.000.0014.00

NOON: NIST 6 43:17

PM: 8+, Montgomery County RR 2 Mile, 9:58.8, 3rd.

Splits: first 18 meters = 3.4, 71.2, 73.3, 73.4, 74.4, 74.0, 76.1, 78.4, 74.6 = 9:58.8

I realized early on that I did not have it for this race.  With the mileage I have done this week, I expected this to be just a workout, and indeed I barely broke 10 min.  We went through the first mile in 4:54, so my second was 5:05.  From my splits it is easy to see where the wheels came off.  On the 6th lap these two guys just dropped me like I was walking and I fell apart.  This tends to happen to me frequently in races and is something I need to learn to overcome.  Anyway, like I said, I am not bummed about this one because my legs were clearly dead from increased miles.  In fact, I ran practically the same time for the 3k AFTER my mile PR last Wed. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
17.000.000.000.0017.00

AM: 17, 1:59:52, Centreville, VA, trails by Brian Tullock's house.  Hot day, but the shade made it bearable.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
99.000.000.000.0099.00
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