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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

Thu, Sep 30, 2010

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
6.14	0.00	6.14

5am, 82F. Ran a lot more evenly-paced today, 8:30 avg. No mile was more than 5 seconds off the average.

It took until the 5th mile today for that weird heel thing to crop up, where it feels like the bottom of my heel is taking a pounding - like there's not enough cushioning. Feels completely unrelated and unlike the injured tendon, but same foot. Gotta be landing differently or something...ah well, it'll work itself out.

I worked up a general plan of how my training will go for the marathon, mileage-wise, in Excel (nerd). I'll max out at a 20-mile long run, and do that 3 times; the first will come in early December. Max weekly mileage of 62 on the weeks where I do 20 (hope I make it). I think I'm just going to do easy runs and 1-2 tempos/week, no speed work except for the occasional 5K races they have here. Does that sound about right?

1140s #1 Miles: 6.14

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From seeaprilrun on Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:04:50 from 68.103.248.145

Sounds like an excellent plan! It is very similar to the plan I am going to use for Houston. Speedwork may do wonders for some folks but for me it is a waste of time in marathon training. I get much stronger much quicker from easy aerobic base and MP and HMP tempos. I am going to do a modified version of this plan:

http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-238-244--9215-4-1X2X3X5-5,00.html

I did this for my spring marathon and felt successful with it

From SlowJoe on Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 17:09:25 from 214.13.130.104

Thanks for the link April, I think I will more or less use that plan, looks good.

Maybe 7:20-7:30 for tempo and 8:00 for MP? Doesn't hurt to train for 8:00 I guess, but I know that's asking a lot to be able to do 26.2 like that when I've never run more than 14 miles at once!

From seeaprilrun on Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 21:39:39 from 68.103.248.145

8:00 MP sounds reasonable, puts you at about a 3:30 marathon? with 8:00 as marathon pace then tempo would probably be right around 7:20 pace--whatever you consider your 10 mile to HMP range. I define it a little more loosely as moderately sucking but not all out sucking like a 5k. :)

From SlowJoe on Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 00:00:32 from 74.82.24.13

Sounds good. Week 1 doesn't start until November, leaving some good base-building time. I have it bookmarked, thanks!

From ChrisM on Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 05:28:41 from 86.178.235.148

Plan sounds good. I think for the first marathon, if you can finish within around 15 minutes of your goal time without blowing up completely and be reasonably strong to the finish then you have done better than 90% of the others that do their first marathon.

I always think of the marathon as two races, the first is getting to the start line and the second getting to the finish line, so it is worth listening to the body during training, especially if you increase the levels of training for the first time

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