| 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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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 155.00 | 16.00 | 171.00 |
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| Fastwich Miles: 24.00 | Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 27.50 | Saucony A5 Red Miles: 41.00 | 1160s Miles: 14.50 | Kinvara 1 - Blk/orange Miles: 19.00 | Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 29.00 | Saucony A6 - Yellow Miles: 11.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Forgot to post but I did 5 slow this morning. Haven't really had time to even think about the race, but it still looks like low 60s for most of it, and close to 100% humidity. I'm on the fence about whether to switch to the half. Seems stupid to destroy my legs for yet another 3 hour finish when I have Houston 6 weeks later. Will keep an eye on the forecast and decide later...
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.50 | 9.50 |
| AM: 41F. 6 @ 7:51 AP
PM: 3.5 w strides
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| Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 9.50 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 2.00 | 8.00 |
| 48F, foggy. 8 @ 7:28 AP. 2 mile block @ 6:36, 6:33. Felt ok. I felt better during my thanksgiving workout, but with only 7 or 8 miles planned over the next 3 days, I'm sure I can recapture that tapered feeling. Still leaning toward doing this as a training run but I want to be rested in case I wake up and it's 50 degrees outside on Sunday morning.
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| Saucony A5 Red Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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San Antonio rock n roll (13 Miles) 01:45:00 | | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| popped an Achilles in mile 2. I tried to work it out the rest of the race, thinking I could still get a decent training run, but had to do the walk of shame back to the starting line. 3-4 miles limping along. Bad bad day for Slowjoe.
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| Saucony A5 Red Miles: 13.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| I ran a little this morning. Achilles should be ok, though the pain migrated up toward the calf a little. Still kind of an overall unbalanced feeling, like one leg is doing more work than the other. All easy runs this week, then maybe I'll be fixed.
It did feel good to be running again though. Calm, quiet foggy morning. But I still didn't feel like going any farther than this.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 50F, 6 @ 7:33 AP.
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| Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 3.00 | 8.00 |
| 8 @ 7:25 AP. Last 3 @ MP effort (7:10). As Jake would say: baseline established. Just gotta turn 3 @ 7:10 into 26.2 @ 6:40. in 4 weeks.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6 @ 8:25. Way behind on my favorite FRBs, hope to catch up soon. "The man" is taking all my time.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 52F. 10 @ 7:29 AP.
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| Kinvara 1 - Blk/orange Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 52F. 10 @ 7:18 AP in Houston. Lots of runners out this morning - most were bundled up in jackets due to extreme cold.
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| Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| 60F, 100%. 13 @ 7:23 AP. Houston part II. Last aerobic get-back-in-shape run. Achilles is fine. Not nearly as worried about my weird unbalanced leg thing anymore. I think I just really jacked myself up by not DNF'ing earlier. Anyway, couple easy days and then my 2-week marathon training block can begin.
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| Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 13.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6 @ 8:14
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| Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 3.00 | 11.00 |
| 38F. 11 @ 7:14 AP. On the way back I did a mini-CV: 6 x (3 min on, 1 min off). I averaged 5:55.5 pace for the on's. Pretty cool huh? It was not an easy effort, but I thought the paces would be significantly worse since I haven't done anything difficult in almost a month, and mileage is WAY down - if I can just get back to my peak shape from a month ago, I'd be really happy. Not there yet, obviously. Nor do I deserve to be. But the door hasn't closed on a PR, or even sub-2:55 if I can avoid sabotaging myself over the holidays. Need a good, long MP run this weekend.
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| Saucony A6 - Yellow Miles: 11.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6 @ 7:55 AP. Took a break from assisting with Cinderella's lego castle construction to get in 6 Christmas miles. Me and Mrs. Claus had a bit too much to drink last night (every family has its own Christmas traditions) so it felt good to sweat it out a bit on the roads.
Merry Christmas all!
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| Kinvara 1 - Blk/orange Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 7 @ 7:58 AP
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6 @ 7:55 AP. 10 + 10 tomorrow. Low expectations but you never know...
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| Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 13.50 | 6.50 | 20.00 |
| 37F, rainy. Kind of a rough one this morning. I should've eased myself in to a tough run like this. Plan was 10 ez, then 10 @ MP. I started out running it as if I had not missed a beat, then predictably bonked in the 7th MP mile. The first 10 I ran at a 7:19 AP, which would be easy for November SlowJoe but not Current SlowJoe.
Then the MP miles were 6:40, 6:34, 6:36, 6:24, 6:40, 6:41, .5 @ 6:48, quit.
Again, a month ago I could've finished this out but not now; I pulled the plug when I couldn't hold 6:40. I should've just run 6:50 the whole time to make sure I got in the volume. Why would I think I could just pick up where I left off..? Then I had a fuel bonk on the cooldown, as a last kick in the butt.
I don't know if 3 weeks is enough time to get November SlowJoe back but I'll go through the motions to see. If I have to I'll be super conservative in the race.
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| Saucony A5 Red Miles: 20.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
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| Kinvara 1 - Blk/orange Miles: 3.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 1.00 | 10.00 |
| AM: 6 TM miles, last @ MP
PM: 4 with the dog @ 7:36 AP; his fastest run yet.
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| Fastwich Miles: 4.00 | Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 155.00 | 16.00 | 171.00 |
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| Fastwich Miles: 24.00 | Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 27.50 | Saucony A5 Red Miles: 41.00 | 1160s Miles: 14.50 | Kinvara 1 - Blk/orange Miles: 19.00 | Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 29.00 | Saucony A6 - Yellow Miles: 11.00 |
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