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Location:

Spanish Fork,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jan 15, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Lifetime PRs:

Marathon: 3:07:59 2013 Big Cottonwood Marathon

1/2 Marathon: 1:24:30 2008 St. George Painters

10K: 38:39 2008 SLCTC

5K: 18:44 2009 Nestle Art City Days

55-59 AD PRs:

1/2 Marathon:???

10K:???

5K:???

Short-Term Running Goals:

2024 plans:

Work on core strength
Overcome lingering injuries
Have fun!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Consistently place in the top 5 of my age division as long as my body will allow it.

Beat Terry Bean at any distance at least one time before I depart this earth.

Take care of mind and body so I can be in it for the long haul. Don't do STUPID THINGS!

Run until I'm 99 with Kim by my side and remember that EVERY RUN IS A GREAT RUN!

Peace of mind by striving to live like this

Personal:

I've been married to the lovely Kimberly for 38 years. We have 5 great kids and 5 great grandkids.

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Tue, Jul 15, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.20	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.20

AM: Easy recovery with Kim. Ran our river bottoms 10K loop but with some add-on at the end to get to 7+ miles. Didn't wear the garmin today, just went off Kim's. Hopefully with taking it real easy today I'll have some zip for tomorrows planned 4.5 mile tempo run at 10K pace. I think I'll tempo the last 4.5 miles of the Speed Spaniard course.

Ave pace 9:45.

Late AM: Went to the gym and got in 10 minutes on the bike followed by core workout. The last few times on the bike I've been checking my heart rate every so often to see if it's really as hard for me to get the heart rate up on the exercise bike as I perceive it to be. What I find is that my heart rate gets up to about 110 within a minute after starting out but then just sits there and I have the hardest time getting it to move above the 110-115 range. Today I cranked just a bit harder and was able to get up to a whopping 120. I suppose the problem is that my quads are just too wimpy to really crank the pedals very aggressive as my legs get tired long before I work up much of a sweat and get the heart rate up. So maybe counting 10 minutes of bike = 1 mile running is a bit generous. I'll have to run a 10 min mile sometime and check my heart rate to compare.

Comments

From Dale on Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 14:46:59

Good discipline, keeping it easy when you need to.

You'd asked about my workouts a few days ago....here's a good article on some different Fartlek workouts from my coach.

http://www.runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=12897

I find Fartleks much better for me over track workouts. First, I don't get consumed trying to meet previous times nearly as much. Second, I run them on the hilly terrain around here, so it's like a combo hill/interval workout for me. Last, it's much more stimulating over the track. Just my two cents.

From JimF on Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 16:34:30

Tom,

I used to do a lot of cycling and my heart rate was always much lower on the bike then running. Even when I was in races my heart rate didn't get that high. It is weird because I would be breathing hard and the legs would be burning but the heart rate didn't get as high as what I would precieve as the same effort running.

From Brent on Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 21:52:30

Tom, I checked my heart rate yesterday, rode as hard as I could for 30 minutes, got my avg. heart rate to 153. But, it was a butt kicking workout to get it that high. Normally, the heart rate is only about 125 during a normal hard bike ride. My max HR on running a few months ago was 176 while doing hard speed workouts. As I have returned back to running, it is not the legs, it is getting used to the cardio.

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From Terry on Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 23:54:34

You don't see a Tour De France running event that lasts 3 weeks. I think biking isn't near as hard on the body as running.

From JohnA on Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 00:50:36

When you are biking you should be at the same cadance as running which is 90 revolutions per min (90 lefts per min). If you are biking correctly, I don't see why you should'nt get your heart rate up.

If you use clips for your feet, then you both pull and push, which makes it easier to go faster and do more work.

My is a little lower on the bike, but I think I have a spastic heart rate too.

I think not using stablizer muscles as much on the run helps to make biking easier.

Outdoors tends to add 5-10 beats per min. than indoors. Heat also adds bpm.

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