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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
Wed, Oct 15, 2014
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.806.2015.00

AM:  52F.  11 mi total.  Today was my big 2 x 5k @ HMP, 1 lap recovery between the 5k’s.  The goal was to just run 92/lap for the first 5k, then max effort, run my eyeballs out for the last 5k.  It went as planned – 19:08, 18:51.  Splits below are 1600s, plus the last 200.

19:08 – 6:08, 6:08, 6:07, 45

Lazy lap ~2:25

18:51 – 6:01, 6:05, 6:05, 40

The 5k’s together average right at 1:20 pace for a half, just under 6:07/mile.  If I were running Houston, with cold weather, I’d say I have an excellent shot at 1:19:xx.  Need to be a little more careful with this race though – should have some hills and most likely warmer weather than today.  Before Houston Half I ran this workout in 19:40, 19:28 (6:18 AP), then proceeded to run the race at a 6:19 AP.  So the good news is I'm way faster now (11 sec/mile).  The bad news is it'll be tough to convert that into a sub-80.  We shall see!

Just lost a month of entries..?  Hope that doesn't mean I just imagined running the last month.  I kinda remember running but if it's not on the blog, did it ever happen?

PM:  4 mile TM plod

Saucony A5 - Blue Miles: 11.00
Weight: 144.40
Comments
From SlowJoe on Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:40:11 from 168.215.171.129

Thanks James - remember, you have to hit 88 mph in the delorean!

From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:46:28 from 192.168.1.1

Joe - your entries are back as well as those of everybody else. I had a weird error with the network adapter this morning. It went into a bad state taking the main server offline. I quickly switched to hot spare without checking if its data was current, and went for a run. When I got back, I had a number of e-mails notifying me that my hot spare was not current.

When I got back I was able recover the network adapter - to my great joy it just needed a real power cycle to reset - I initially thought it was altogether broken. After I was able to bring things back in order and resync the data between the main and the spare servers so nothing would be lost. I am writing this comment partly to make sure the switch to main really worked.

From flatlander on Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:55:59 from 198.207.244.102

Good job on the 5K repeats. Will be interesting to see what happens in Houston, but if the weather cooperates I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

From SlowJoe on Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 18:36:34 from 104.51.208.13

Nice work getting 'er back up and running, Sasha.

Flat - I'm doing the full in Houston this year, 6 weeks after another full...kind of a backup to SA, so maybe I can have 1 good marathon this season!

From james (runmehappy) on Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:28:37 from 50.203.76.218

That is a great workout, and one I will have to try when I get back to October.

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