| 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 | | 47.35 | 11.25 | 58.60 |
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| 1160s Miles: 20.00 | Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 11.10 | Saucony A5 - Blue Miles: 11.00 | Saucony A5 Miles: 12.00 | Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 4.50 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 67F, 98%. No watch...definitely slow.
We timed our trip well. On the way back to SA, we get a text from my sister-in-law who lives in Austin, that she's going into labor. Austin happens to be on the way home. So me and the kids are in the waiting room now. Good way to break up the trip - drive a little, pit stop for a childbirth, drive the rest of the way.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 11.10 | 0.00 | 11.10 |
| 66F, 95%. 7:51 AP. Raining, felt nice and cool. If only it could rain every morning this summer - I'd be evah so happy.
PM - 4 in the neighborhood, right after a big dinner. I could feel my gut swinging back and forth. 8:13 pace.
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| Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 11.10 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 3.00 | 11.00 |
| AM: 68F, 100%, fog/light rain. 7 miles total. Headed down to the track to splash around at 1-mile pace today. 8 x 400 @ 1-mile, 90 sec rest. The rain had me feeling good again and I averaged 75.8, which is about a half-second faster than I've ever done this workout. Individual reps were 77.8, 75.4, 78.0, 76.8, 76.6, 76.3, 75.0, 70.3. I may have even (unintentionally) sandbagged a little as it was pretty easy to drop the pace at the end. For me, the key with this workout is getting your legs used to a very unfamiliar pace by running a little harder than you think you should.
About 2 weeks out now from my first-ever track race - the 1600!
PM: 4 on the TM, including 7 x 45s hill sprints, ranging from 4 - 5.5%, and 10-11 mph.
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| Saucony A5 - Blue Miles: 11.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 1.00 | 10.00 |
| AM: 70F, 92%. 8:36 AP. Rickety old legs for this one. Need to bounce back for some 10k stuff, preferably tomorrow.
PM: 4 on the TM, with 6 x 1 min @ 10k. Trying to get the legs primed for a tough one tomorrow. No workout fail, no workout fail, no workout fail...
In other running news, I signed up for the Houston full. It's nestled nicely, 6 weeks after the San Antonio full, and 6 weeks before the Cowtown ultra. What could go wrong?
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 6.00 | 12.00 |
| 66F, 86%. Last workout of the 3-week minicycle was 10k pace. For my 10k workouts, I'm using a McMillan progression until I can do a 3 x 2-mile. This workout was the first step, a 6 x 1600m, 600 active recovery. Usually when I do a 6 x 1, it's at LT with 400m recovery; McMillan says to take 3-4 minutes recovery so I chose 600m which ended up being just over 3 minutes. Even with that much recovery, which seems like a lot (don't recall ever taking this much), I knew my predicted 10k pace (5:58) would be a little too much to ask so I thought I'd start around 15k and work my way down to a 10k rep. Amazingly it went exactly as I planned...scary.
Avg rep was 6:02.8. Splits were 6:05.8, 6:04.6, 6:03.9, 6:02.8, 6:01.3, 5:58.5.
The last 2 were tough. On the last one I was right at 3:00 at the 800, and already really hurting. But I pushed up the effort. The taller weeds in the football field turned into giant caterpillars that started singing White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane. Is that "deep threshold," Jason? Maybe I get it now. Anyway, made it under 6.
Very successful 3 weeks - I went 6 for 6 on my workouts (almost unheard of, for me). I'll take several easy days now and start over again next week.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 9.25 | 1.25 | 10.50 |
| AM: 68F, 86%. 6 @ 8:44 AP.
PM: 4.5 on the TM in 35 min. More strides than usual, didn't want to stop this time.
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| Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 4.50 | 1160s Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| No run today - with a 12-miler tomorrow, I'll still hit 66 this week, which is enough. Instead, enjoy this graph:
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 47.35 | 11.25 | 58.60 |
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| 1160s Miles: 20.00 | Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 11.10 | Saucony A5 - Blue Miles: 11.00 | Saucony A5 Miles: 12.00 | Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 4.50 |
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