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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
53.004.0057.00
Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 27.00Fastwitch 6 Red #1 Miles: 15.00Fastwitch 6 Red #2 Miles: 15.00
Weight: 145.60
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
12.000.0012.00

AM:  71F, 83%.  8 @ 8:32 AP.  Recovery paces except for about a quarter mile when someone in the next neighborhood over didn't want to be passed.  I don't mind (and actually secretly enjoy) when people put up a fight, but not so much when I just ran 25 miles the day before.  It hurt a little but it proved my superiority which is the most important thing.

Picture from the birthday party yesterday:

PM:  4 slow miles on the home TM.  I'd forgotten what a hunk of crap that thing was - I'm used to the good ones at the gym at work...

Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 12.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(5)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
13.002.0015.00

AM:  74F, 83%.  10 @ 8:15 AP

PM:  5 on the TM, last 2 @ LT (~12:20s).

Supercompensation day 8 -- felt better today than I have since day 1..?

Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 15.00
Weight: 0.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
15.000.0015.00

AM:  78F, 84%.  10 @ 8:44 AP.  Aaaaaaand, I'm tired again.  But I'll always have the memories of yesterday...

PM:  5 mile TM plod for my penultimate run in this block.  I've been waiting for 9 days to use the word penultimate.

Fastwitch 6 Red #1 Miles: 15.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(2)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
13.002.0015.00

AM:  78F, 86%.  15 @ 8:11 AP.  I set out to do 20 this morning but determined pretty early on that I would be cutting it short.  I decided to run the last 2 miles hard to make up for it (6:42, 6:18) but I'm definitely ok with 165 miles in 10 days.

So I don't know if this supercompensation theory is legit or not but at the very least, it's keeping my average volume up despite the fact that I won't be able to run for 4-5 days, so I don't have to feel bad about my upcoming period of extreme inactivity.  It also was good to train myself to plod around on legs that feel about twice as heavy as usual.  I often imagined myself in mile 40 of my upcoming ultra and wondered if that's how it would feel.  I bet it'll be much worse.

And I think I did it all without overtraining - still had normal energy at work, home, etc.  Another week of this and I think it would've been too much for me, as the sleep deficit grows bit by bit and today kinda showed me I didn't have the legs for much more either.  It would be interesting to try this in the winter and see if recovery is easier.

Alright - let the healing begin!

Fastwitch 6 Red #2 Miles: 15.00
Weight: 145.60
Comments(13)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
53.004.0057.00
Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 27.00Fastwitch 6 Red #1 Miles: 15.00Fastwitch 6 Red #2 Miles: 15.00
Weight: 145.60
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