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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
67.008.5075.50
Saucony A5 - Blue Miles: 15.00Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 11.00Fastwich Miles: 13.00Kinvara 1 - Blk/orange Miles: 15.50Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 4.001160s Miles: 6.00Saucony A5 Miles: 11.00
Weight: 146.68
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
11.004.0015.00

65F, 85%.  Took advantage of the cold front today.  8 mile warmup, then hit the track for some CV work: 8 x 800, 200m active rec.  Average rep was 2:54.0 (2:57, 2:56, 2:58, 2:57, 2:55, 2:50, 2:52, 2:47).  Average recovery was ~65 sec.  Then a 2 mi cooldown to hit 15.

Pretty good!  Held back a lot in the first 4 reps; I've never run this workout this fast, and I've done it a lot.  I'm glad I decided not to sit around and get fat again this summer.  Should be a very fun season.

Saucony A5 - Blue Miles: 15.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(4)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
11.000.0011.00

AM:  69F, 88%.  6.5 @ 8:32 AP.

PM:  4.5 on the TM

Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 11.00
Weight: 148.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
12.001.0013.00

AM:  75F, 85%.  8 @ 8:08 AP.  Legs felt tired/cruddy until the last couple miles, which is also when there was finally a little daylight.  I'm already ready for DST (Daylight Stealing Time) to be over.  See what I did there?  I changed "savings" to "stealing," because it "steals" daylight from my morning runs.  That's the joke.  Daylight STEALING Time.  Get it?

PM:  5 TM miles, with 6 x 1 min @ 5k strides.  I think I'll bail on my HMGP workout tomorrow with the DP back up to august levels.  Will be replaced with a longer slog and I'll slot the HM workout in next week which is looking better/cooler, I guess.  This will still give me 3 goal-pace workouts before the half.

Fastwich Miles: 13.00
Weight: 147.60
Comments(9)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
15.500.0015.50

AM:  77F, 91%.  12 @ 7:54 AP.  When I stepped out of my font door it felt like a warm fart cloud outside.  So I'm glad I decided not to attempt a workout.  Instead, I drove to the trail, slogged around for 95 minutes, and when I came back I had a parking ticket on my windshield.  Whaaaa?  Apparently you can't park at any parks/city trailheads before sunrise.  I've parked there a hundred times, and I don't think I've ever arrived AFTER sunrise.  So, a $35 training run.  Fortunately there's a Walmart parking lot a quarter mile away.  If I had more spare time in my life, I'd devote it to getting that city ordinance revoked.  But since I don't, I'll just write a smart ass comment on the memo line of the check when I mail it in.

** Never mind, I'm fighting it.  I researched the ordinance.  Curfew hours are 11pm to 5am and my ticket was written @ 6:55.  The ordinance allows individual parks to set more restrictive operating hours, and this one does, but they may not change hours of curfew violations.  My ticket quotes "park curfew" hours violation.  I go to court in 2 weeks.

PM:  snuck in 30 min / 3.5 TM miles at the end of the day.

Kinvara 1 - Blk/orange Miles: 15.50
Weight: 145.80
Comments(9)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.500.5010.00

AM:  76F, 93%.  6 @ 8:38 AP.  Apologies to the family of gnats that I massacred by running through your cloud.  I tried to brush you all off together so you could decompose as a family.

PM:  4 TM miles with wussy strides.  I need to attempt some kind of workout in the soup tomorrow, no matter how pathetic.

Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 4.001160s Miles: 6.00
Weight: 145.60
Comments(3)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.003.0011.00

AM:  75F, 91%.  Decided I might be able to handle some 600s, but my legs were tired, it was miserable outside and I couldn't.  I ran a 2:10, 2:15, then quit on the third rep, almost involuntarily.  Usually I weigh the pros and cons for awhile before pulling the plug but this was instantaneous...weird.

So this week was pitiful for workouts, but with a 16-miler on Sunday, it'll be my highest mileage week in about 18 months.  Next week our weather will move from "really crappy" for running to "kinda crappy," so I'm pretty excited; should be able to do some stamina work.  Here's the scale:

65 and humid -- meh

70 and humid -- kinda crappy

75 and humid -- really crappy

80 and humid -- just shoot me now and get it over with

I can't wait until it's "meh" outside...hopefully the week after next.

PM:  mini-workout on the TM.  Kinda complicated to detail, I was pushing buttons every 30 sec or so!  Short story -- 2 fast miles around 5k average, 5 mi total.

Saucony A5 Miles: 11.00
Weight: 146.40
Comments(1)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.000.000.00

Stomach bug going around the house.  Now I feel it coming back again, like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind.

Weight: 0.00
Comments(1)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
67.008.5075.50
Saucony A5 - Blue Miles: 15.00Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 11.00Fastwich Miles: 13.00Kinvara 1 - Blk/orange Miles: 15.50Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 4.001160s Miles: 6.00Saucony A5 Miles: 11.00
Weight: 146.68
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