| 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 | 56.40 | 7.10 | 63.50 |
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Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 5.50 | Fastwitch 6 Red #1 Miles: 7.00 | Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 10.00 | Saucony A5 Red Miles: 10.00 | 1160s Miles: 6.00 | NB MT101 Trail Miles: 10.00 | Saucony A6 - Red/blue Miles: 15.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.50 | 1.00 | 5.50 |
| 50F. Mostly around 8-min pace, legs felt heavy and stuck, so I dropped in a 6:09 toward the end. It actually felt good. It's like my 8-9 minute muscles are tired but my 6 min muscles are fresh.
Right now I'm signed up for a half in January and Cowtown 50k at the end of February. I kind of regret signing up for the half. I want to do well at cowtown so I'm preserving the weeks leading up to that one. But I'm also thinking about maybe a 50k @ Bandera on 1/9, which is 2 weeks before my January half...if I do, there's probably no chance for a HM PR. Really feeling like I don't care about that though. Or getting a marathon PR this season - might replace Providence with another trail ultra. Always feels like the racing season is so short, so I'm trying to maximize my "fun."
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Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 5.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 7.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 46F. 7 @ 8:05 AP. Legs still have some kinks and stiffness.
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Fastwitch 6 Red #1 Miles: 7.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| AM: 48F. 6 @ 7:57 AP.
PM: 60F. 4 @ 7:28 AP. Lunch run. Felt better, but far from smooth. Next week, I think I'll start a mini speed block. Impossible to go worse than the last one, so I'm excited.
I saw a guy running shirtless on the PM run, meaning that for the first time in 2.5 years of living in San Antonio, I was MORE clothed than another runner. The apocalypse is upon us.
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Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 10.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.90 | 3.10 | 10.00 |
| 43F. 10 @ 7:06 AP. I can't find my light gloves. Every year this happens. Anyway, it was ok today...no wind and 95% humidity. I have my "Oklahoma gloves" which are thick, but left them in the bag.
Regardless, I liked the temps and put on the type A's today, encouraged by yesterday's PM run, and did a 5k in 19:33 (6:25, 6:20, 6:13, :35) on the way back (downstream - 15-20'/mile downhill). Recovery is definitely still needed from the race, but I gotta say my muscles needed a lot less recovery from that 50-miler than ANY marathon I've done. I guess plodding around on dirt is easier than running hard on concrete, even at twice the distance. Either that or maybe I underperformed...I wonder if you had perfect pacing and somehow maximized your effort if it would be worse? I'm happy either way - either I can go ahead and run a bunch of ultras since the recovery isn't bad, or I can go a lot faster when I run 'em. Mighta found my direction...
As a side note I got access to the Rockhoppers group (SA trail running club) and got some of the backstory of the race from a guy that was directing traffic at a transition point; the winner was adjusting his pace based on this guy's intel of how far back I was. I definitely need these guys on my side!
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Saucony A5 Red Miles: 10.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| AM: 39F. 6 @ 8:07. Take a look at JG's team in training page below:
http://pages.teamintraining.org/ma/boston16/jgillette
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| AM: 36F. 6 @ 7:49 AP.
PM: 63F. 4 @ 7:26 AP.
Tested out my new trail shoes! I bought them on specs alone (7.5 oz, 10mm toe drop) but I think they'll work fine. Going to take them out to Bandera in a couple weeks, so that's the real test. If I can do a long run without creating a gaping hole in my shoes, then these are the winners.
My AM run was on pavement but my PM run was a pretty hard effort on trails. I don't know, somehow, somewhere along the way, I let myself believe I was done recovering from the 50. No. Legs were crushed after the PM run, and I need to start taking the recovery more seriously.
After a big race, for me, one of two things will happen. Either I will get unbelievably lazy, or unbelievably motivated. Fortunately, the latter happened this time, but I need to de-motivate until my decrepit body says it's ready. Lots of fatigue today...not ready quite yet.
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NB MT101 Trail Miles: 10.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 12.00 | 3.00 | 15.00 |
| 39F. 15 @ 7:22 AP. Broke in my other pair of new shoes. Tried to keep the pace moderate, and did so until the last 3 miles, which were around MP...so hard to run in the Type As and NOT go fast. Probably save these new ones for a couple workouts then shelf 'em until the HM next month.
Up next, 3 days of real, actual recovery runs.
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Saucony A6 - Red/blue Miles: 15.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 56.40 | 7.10 | 63.50 |
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Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 5.50 | Fastwitch 6 Red #1 Miles: 7.00 | Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 10.00 | Saucony A5 Red Miles: 10.00 | 1160s Miles: 6.00 | NB MT101 Trail Miles: 10.00 | Saucony A6 - Red/blue Miles: 15.00 |
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