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Location:

San Antonio,TX,

Member Since:

Dec 13, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

5K PR - 18:01 - Nov '14

10K PR - 38:37 (workout) - Oct '14

Half-marathon - 1:22:43 - Jan '14

Marathon - 2:58:43 in Boston! - Apr '13

50 mile - 7:49:30 (2nd) - Nov '15

Short-Term Running Goals:

- Balance

- Run more trails, volunteer, more social running, run with a team

- Race a lot more.  learn.

Race results / possible schedule:

Apr 2 - Hells Hills 25k trail - 4th

Apr 9 - Toughest 'n Texas 20-mile Trail - 2nd

May 7 - Paleface - Trail Marathon - 3rd

May 29 - American Hero road 25k - 2nd

Jun 25 - Pedernales Falls 30k nighttime Trail - 5th (sick)

Jul 16 - Muleshoe Bend 30k nighttime Trail - 3rd

Jul 23-24 - Fossil Valley 9-hour nighttime Trail - 2nd

Aug 6 - Colorado Bend 30k nighttime Trail - 4th

Aug 27 - Reveille Peak 30k nighttime Trail (entered)

Sep 10 - Franklin Mountains 50k (entered - not all-out effort...I hope)

Sep 17 - Lighthouse Hill 20-mile trail (entered)

Sep 24 - J&J 50 mile trail

Long-Term Running Goals:

Compete in a few more ultras without going off course (again)

Sub-18 in a 5k

One.  Good.  Marathon.

Personal:

I started running at age 30, in late 2009.  I have 2 daughters (10 and 8 yrs old).

  

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony A5 Lifetime Miles: 1054.70
Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Lifetime Miles: 1551.08
Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Lifetime Miles: 1244.23
1160s Lifetime Miles: 888.70
Saucony A5 Red Lifetime Miles: 565.10
Saucony A6 - Yellow Lifetime Miles: 214.00
Saucony A6 - Red/blue Lifetime Miles: 61.50
NB MT101 Trail Lifetime Miles: 302.00
Fastwitch 6 Red #1 Lifetime Miles: 286.50
Fastwitch 6 Red #2 Lifetime Miles: 267.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.023.9813.00

34F.  Down to the track for the dreaded 16 x 400.  My only real guideline for pace was to keep it faster than 17:59/5k pace which is 86.3/lap.  I did 200m active recoveries between repeats.

Average 84.6 (83.7, 85.6, 84.9, 83.6, 86.1, 87.0, 83.7, 84.9, 84.2, 84.9, 83.2, 84.6, 86.2, 83.9, 84.2, 83.3)

Standard deviation 1.1 sec, so kinda bounced around a little.  For the 5th and 6th repeats, I changed my technique and relaxed the first 200 and tried to finish hard.  But that actually produced the slowest splits.  My best ones were when I ran the first 100 hard and held on for dear life, even though it meant tying up a bit at the end.

Back in June I did 12 x 400 and averaged 84.5, so this was probably a bit of improvement from that, since I'm sure I could have gone faster if I only had to do 12.  My legs were also a bit heavy from the recent mileage today, so overall a decent session.  No way I could have done 20 though...no way!

Saucony A5 Miles: 13.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From I Just Run on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 07:40:50 from 67.79.11.242

Never say never... :-)

What a good run Joe, I knew you were going to blow it away!

From derhammer on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:16:30 from 64.245.52.2

Nice job - it's in the books now.

From Bam on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:18:43 from 89.126.28.24

Great workout Joe. Keeping them at a touch under 5:40 pace off a short recovery is good going. It'll make mp feel like a walk in the park.

From Jake K on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:25:06 from 155.100.226.191

You'll be doing 20-25 this summer! :-)

Another good session. Way to keep knocking 'em out Joe.

From Jason D on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:54:24 from 128.210.82.162

Great session, Joe. I bet you said the same about 16 that you now say about 20!

From seeaprilrun on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 14:21:50 from 68.102.189.33

Nice! You nailed those! That is a lot of fast 400s with not much recovery! wow!

From JG on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 18:28:18 from 174.49.78.66

Awesome Joe! Just to show you up, after 8 miles today I ran one in 82 seconds ... of course, that was pretty much an all out effort! :)

From Dan on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 20:23:08 from 24.209.83.20

Nice job Joe, that's impressive. I am wondering. You said you couldn't do 20. Could you do 17? :) Seriously great run.

From SlowJoe on Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 07:06:54 from 155.219.241.10

Thanks all.

April - Believe me, I was milking that 200m toward the end...got close to 10:00 pace on the last few, in lane 2 or 3!

JG - No 82's for me!

Dan - The last one really felt close to a sprint and it wasn't really any faster. Maybe 17 next time!

From joebell1981 on Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 19:50:33 from 99.39.133.24

Delayed, overdue comment - good looking workout, Joe. I liked seeing the sub-5 mile and 2:4x marathon pop up on your goals. :)

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