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Tour Decatur

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Member Since:

Feb 19, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Half Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

2:43 Marathon

1:17:45 Half Marathon

59:09 10 miles

17:15 5k

Still Running (again) after all these years

Short-Term Running Goals:

get back to it and not be a fat blob

Long-Term Running Goals:

Enjoy running my whole life

Personal:

Married 21 years- - two kids - 18 year old boy and  15 year old girl

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
37.000.000.003.1040.10
Weight: 146.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.100.000.000.008.10

felt pretty good after 3 days off - very busy and with the tweaky achilles, I diidn't mind taking fri and sat off.  Maybe not the way to go but i got a lot of stuff done around the house and my mother in law's house.  I'll see how badly out of shape i am this saturday with the local school district's 5K. 

8.1 @ 7:06 ave pace

Weight: 146.00
Comments(1)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

ok - I signed up for the Georgia half marathon next March.  It is the first day of sign-up so that have some great discounts -- $40 isn't too bad.  I still don't know what to do for the fall goal race.  There is a new marathon run by the Atlanta Track club - on Halloween weekend.  I should do that one.  But there is also the Silver Comet Half on the same weekend.  That is a great PR waiting to happen.  Or I could wait and run the Chickamauga Marathon or Half two weeks after that. 

pre lunch run 4.5 @ 6:50 ave pace -- the weather is so nice

post work run - another 4.5 @ 7:16 pace -

Weight: 146.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

got out before driving into work today - felt ok - not great

4 @ 7:26 ave pace

Weight: 146.00
Comments(2)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.500.000.000.007.50

never really felt in the groove on this one - not sure why

7.5 @ 7:10 ave pace

Weight: 146.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.400.000.000.005.40

don't feel really great today- feel like my throat is constricted a bit - 

5.4 - @ 6:58 ave pace

Weight: 146.00
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Race: Tour Decatur (3.1 Miles) 00:18:07, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.000.000.003.106.10

This is the local race that benefits the education foundation.  It gets huge participation cause all the elementary schools have track club after school to get the kids ready and excited for it.    My whole family ran.  My wife and daughter did the mile.  That's my wife's first race ever.  My son wanted to do his first 5K, too.  Very fun. 

So we watched the milers go out and cheered our ladies as they finished.  Then it was 5K time.  The guy who's won the last two or so wasn't running this year, but when we all lined up there were some guys that looked fast and at least a few who actually are fast.  So any hopes of winner were out the window.  BUT the goal really was to do my best and not puke or quit.   :)

I somehow avoided the sprinting kids at the start andgot up to speed and tried to maintain an even pace.  There lots ups and downs on this route - defenitely not a PR route. 
first mile was 5:43
slowed down but at that point it was just hanging on
I didn't have another gear when I needed one.  That's the lack of speed training rearing it's head.  
I yo-yo'd with another guy in the last 1 mile or so which made it fun especially when I finally passed him on the last .25 (he surged a bit too early and I had a little in the tank).
This is the first time I've won the masters race - hey that's cool - I got a $50 gift certficate from two different running stores.  I don't think I've won anything like that before.  That'll help by some shoes and stuff in the future. 

After the finish I ran back and got to run the last mile or so with Sawyer.  That was really cool.  He did great in his longest run ever!

~3 @  ~7:30-8 min pace

3.1 @ 5:51 ave pace

BIG positive is that the achilles held up.  My right leg hamstring or something is still really tight but I can deal with that. 


Weight: 146.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
37.000.000.003.1040.10
Weight: 146.00
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