| 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 | 48.02 | 7.11 | 55.13 |
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1140s #1 Miles: 20.00 | New Blue Asics Miles: 11.02 | 1140s #2 Miles: 24.11 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 8.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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A muddy 8 miles, 8:31 pace. A storm came through overnight (first rain I've seen in 5 months) and it was actually breezy and wet. Everything is covered in mud.
My quads are still sore from Friday so I took it nice and easy. |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 12.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
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It continued to rain most of the past 24 hours and it was a mess outside this morning. What kind of a desert is this anyway? Also, all vehicles on the road were collaborating with each other to force me into every mud puddle on base. By the second mile my shoes were fully waterlogged.
I slogged through my planned workout anyway, which was 6 easy, 6 MP. 6 easy miles were @ 8:17 avg, then did the MP(ish) miles @ 7:35 avg. 7:56 AP for the run. The heavy shoes notwithstanding, it felt pretty comfortable. |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.02 | 0.00 | 6.02 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.00 | 5.00 | 11.00 |
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7:33 avg.
I hadn't done a sustained tempo in 4 weeks so I figured it was about that time. Plan was 6 easy, then 5 fast - the first time I've tried to string together 5 tempo miles in a row. My target for the fast miles was 7:00-7:10.
6 easy miles: 8:04 avg pace. I kinda get psyched up mentally before a tough workout and end up doing my warmup miles too fast, but oh well.
5 tempo miles: 6:54 avg! Splits were 7:05, 6:55, 6:51, 6:55, 6:45.
Pretty motivating workout for me, there have definitely been some fitness improvement spurts going on the past couple weeks. After backing off in tempo mile 1 to hit my target, I decided to let myself run whatever felt right after that. I hit that threshold point right around the end of mile 3 and it went from feeling great to feeling tough in about a 60-second span. I pushed through the weakening legs though, to hold the pace for the last 2 uncomfortable miles. Mental victory! That's the most important kind for a dummy like me. |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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8:31 pace. Not sore from yesterday, which is good news.
Tomorrow I'm gonna do a test -- run a half marathon at marathon pace (7:45) and see how it feels. If it still feels nice and easy at the end, maybe I won't be nervous to start the actual marathon at that pace. |
New Blue Asics Miles: 5.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 11.00 | 2.11 | 13.11 |
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Well, as an experiment the run failed but it was a lot of fun. I was trying to run it at 7:45 pace as a dry run for the marathon but ended up progessively getting faster. After awhile I quit fighting it and just had fun with the run.
AP 7:26, 1:37:27 (unofficial PR). Splits: 7:37, 7:34, 7:40, 7:32, 7:28, 7:27, 7:26, 7:24, 7:22, 7:23, 7:15, 7:21, 7:15, 0:44.
Really, it probably ended up being close to HM race pace. If I was running it as an actual race from the beginning, I doubt it would've been a lot faster -- maybe a couple minutes, tops. I didn't finish the last couple miles like I would've in a race, so as to have a short recovery, but the effort was pretty solid.
I think I still accomplished part of what I set out to do today because I don't think 7:45 is a crazy pace to start at for the race, seems very doable now. |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 48.02 | 7.11 | 55.13 |
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1140s #1 Miles: 20.00 | New Blue Asics Miles: 11.02 | 1140s #2 Miles: 24.11 |
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