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Location:

Austin,TX,USA

Member Since:

Jun 07, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

2006 – London Marathon – 3:42

2007 – London Marathon – 3:49

2008 –Austin Marathon – 3:19.20

2009 – 3M Half Marathon – 1:29.20

2009 – Austin Marathon – 3:23

2009 – San Antonio Marathon – 3:36

2010 – Steamtown Marathon – 3:17:56 (PR)

2011 - Austin Marathon - 3:27

2012 - London - 3:27 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Break all my PRs during the Austin FIT Distance Challenge:

10K - 40:41

10 miles - 68:02

1/2 Maration - Decker - 1:30:30

1/2 Marathon - 3M - 1:29:25

30K - 2:30

Marathon - 3:17

Long-Term Running Goals:

Break 3 hours for the marathon

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
VFF Spyridon Green Lifetime Miles: 125.41
Saucony Kinvara TR2 Lifetime Miles: 22.85
Newton Motion III - #1 Lifetime Miles: 125.05
Newton Distance III S - #1 Lifetime Miles: 87.15
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
31.357.002.000.0040.35
Mizuno Wave Elixir 6 - White/Yellow Miles: 6.25Mizuno Wave Elixir 6 - Green/Blue III Miles: 28.10
Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.250.000.000.006.25

Bit of a shocker this morning. I work up feeling a bit tired and lethargic. Then I opened the door to leg the dog out and it was pretty disgusting out. 77 degrees and 87% humidity = bloody awful. I took my running belt as I knew I’d need lots of fluids, but I just couldn’t get going. It was supposed to be 2 mile warm up, miles at MGP, then a 1 mile cool down. It became 6 ¼ miles of agonizingly slow miles. However, the positive is that I kept moving when all the time my legs were saying stop, go home, go back to bed. I’ll carry hat with me on race day….knowing that I can push through. However, I also hope that I’m not running 9 minute miles at the end of the marathon ;o). Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Mizuno Wave Elixir 6 - White/Yellow Miles: 6.25
Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.607.000.000.008.60

Much better run this morning. It was a cooler than yesterday, but the biggest help was that I got to run with a couple of folks. I jogged the .9 mile to meet them, which is just as well as when we started it was straight into the run, i.e. no warm up nonsense ;o). We did 7 miles at close to MGP. Here are the splits: 7:16, 7:09, 7:28, 7:16, 7:06, 6:59, 7:00. Average pace for those 7 miles = 7:10 min/mile. After that I jogged back to the house, and took the pup for a walk.

Mizuno Wave Elixir 6 - Green/Blue III Miles: 8.60
Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.002.000.006.00

Fartlek workout.  Felt great athe start, but then legs started to get very tired.  Running form became worse than normal so headed home.  I did a 15 minute warm up then 12 x 1 minute hard, 1 minute easy, and then a short recovery back to the house.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
19.500.000.000.0019.50

Made a number of errors this morning so I didn't have the best run.  On the plus side, it wasn't terrible and if I get my preparation right then I could still run a good time in SA.  This wasn't the best week, but a new one starts tomorrow so thats my focus!

Mizuno Wave Elixir 6 - Green/Blue III Miles: 19.50
Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
31.357.002.000.0040.35
Mizuno Wave Elixir 6 - White/Yellow Miles: 6.25Mizuno Wave Elixir 6 - Green/Blue III Miles: 28.10
Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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