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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
43.0021.0064.00
Saucony A5 Miles: 15.001160s Miles: 6.00Fastwitch 6 Red #1 Miles: 10.00Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 12.00Saucony A6 - Red/blue Miles: 15.00Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 6.00
Weight: 152.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.007.0015.00

48F, NNW 15-25 mph.  15 @ 7:10 AP.  Cold front finally arrived.

Picked it up on the way back home, last 7 @ 6:32 AP.  Hit the gas for the last mile downhill to my house and ran it in 5:31 - probably the fastest full mile I've done on a training run...felt pretty good, definitely ran it hard but still had some gas in the tank at the end.

Saucony A5 Miles: 15.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(4)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

37F, ~17 mph wind.  6 @ 8:21 AP.  I might need to find my hat if it gets any cooler!

1160s Miles: 6.00
Weight: 153.60
Comments(1)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.000.0010.00

37F.  10 @ 7:42 AP.  A few short strides toward the end, but the legs are still kinda cranky from Sunday.  So, recovery tomorrow and then I'm thinking ~90 min of solid aerobic running on Thursday to close out my 2 week Bandera training block.  Sad!

Fastwitch 6 Red #1 Miles: 10.00
Weight: 151.20
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

46F.  6 @ 8:07 AP.  Felt good, ready to run harder tomorrow.

Next year I really want to have fun with running, and have several goals to that end.  One of them is that I want need to race more.  I had so much fun running and racing back in 2011, and got a lot faster...partially by racing more, I think.  2015 was pathetic by comparison...5 races all year?!

If I get my way, and run all the races I've penciled in for 2016, it should be a fun year!

Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 6.00
Weight: 152.60
Comments(8)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
1.0014.0015.00

44F.  15 @ 6:25 AP.  Big breakthrough today.  It's been a long, long time since I've been able to write that.

Original plan was just to average 7:00 for this run (~50k effort?) but in the back of my mind, I knew I'd probably test myself a bit more.  Ran mile 1 in 7:04, which is undoubtedly a mile-1-early-AM PR.  Then the next 14 were 6:42, 6:45, 6:41, 6:50, 6:30, 6:25, 6:27, 6:25, 6:23, 5:58, 6:12, 6:02, 6:07, 5:44.

To put it in perspective, the last 13.1 miles today works out to a low 1:23, maybe 30 seconds off my PR.  Averaged 6:10 for the last 10 miles, ran sub-38 for the last 10k, and averaged 6:01 for the last 5.  Now I just need to hope for a full recovery in 9 days...the angel on my shoulder was telling me to slow down and this was unnecessary, but the devil on the other shoulder needed to see what I could do (he won).

Anyway, good segue into my last chart of the year.  In the past, I'd looked at each month in a vacuum and gotten discouraged when I cratered a month of training.  But I think our fitness is more about what we've done in the past year, not in the past month (today's run solidified that for me).  So I'm looking at my training volume now, using the trailing 12-months' weekly average (red line) instead of looking at each month separately (dotted blue line).  It certainly explains my lack of improvement in the last couple marathons (Apr-14 and Jan-15), and why the Jan-15 race was a little better.

Anyway, I've planned out the next year with yearly volume in mind, instead of hitting weekly goals, which don't always make sense.  Goal is to move the red line to 70 by the end of the year.  Motivation right now is 10/10, and it hasn't been there in years.  Looking forward to a great 2016, happy new year all!

Saucony A6 - Red/blue Miles: 15.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(6)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

45F.  6 @ 8:08 AP.  Goal is to nap a lot today.  We hosted a party last night so I couldn't go to bed until waaaaaay after I usually do.  Our neighborhood goes absolutely bonkers with fireworks!

Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 6.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(4)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

41F, raining.  6 @ 7:47 AP.  All I could think about was all the mud being generated at Bandera.

Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 6.00
Weight: 150.60
Comments(1)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
43.0021.0064.00
Saucony A5 Miles: 15.001160s Miles: 6.00Fastwitch 6 Red #1 Miles: 10.00Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Miles: 12.00Saucony A6 - Red/blue Miles: 15.00Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 6.00
Weight: 152.00
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