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Location:

Venice,FL,USA

Member Since:

Oct 31, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

5k:
21:01, (6:46 pace) 11-19-11.
20:08, (6:29 pace) 9-1-12 (Part of a Mini-Triathlon Relay).
19:17, (6:12 pace) 11-17-12.
19:19, (6:13 pace) 11-23-13.
19:30, (6:17 pace) 1-4-14.
20:34, (6:34 pace) 9-13-14
19:49, (6:23 pace) 10-25-14
19:32, (6:17 pace) 11-22-14
19:40, (6:19 pace) 12-19-14
19:49, (6:23 pace) 1-31-16

8k:
34:42, (6:57 pace) 3-17-12.
32:11, (6:28 pace) 3-16-13.
32:32, (6:33 pace) 3-15-14. 

34:00, (6:50 pace) 3-14-15.

33:09, (6:40 pace) 3-11-17.

32:56, (6:38 pace) 3-17-18.

10k:
44:18, (7:08 pace) 4-14-12.
41:22, (6:39 pace) 12-15-12.
42:11, (6:47 pace) 4-13-13.
41:06, (6:37 pace) 12-8-13.

42:03, (6:46 pace) 3-5-16

44:35, (7:11 pace) 8-26-17
12k:
53:53, (7:14 pace) 3-24-12.
49:20, (6:37 pace) 3-1-14
15k:
1:18:16, (8:24 pace) 2-26-11.

1:04:37. (6:56 pace) 2-20-16

1:08:25 (7:18 pace) 2/22/20

Half Marathons:

1:37:57 (7:28 pace) 1-26-20. Fort Lauderdale - A1A 
14 Marathons:
1.  4:12:08, (9:37 pace) 1-9-11. Disney.
2.  4:18:18, (9:51 pace) 10-30-11. MCM.
3.  3:42:26, (8:29 pace) 1-14-12. Charleston.
4.  3:13:15, (7:22 pace) 10-7-12. Steamtown.
5*.  3:12:26, (7:20 pace) 1-19-14. Louisiana.
6*.  3:14:06, (7:24 pace) 4-21-14. Boston.
7*.  3:19:38, (7:37 pace) 7-19-14. U. of Okoboji.
8*.  3:16:27, (7:30 pace) 2-22-15. Mercedes-Benz
9*. 3:30:38 (8:03 pace) 5-15-16 Sugarloaf

10. 3:24:21 (7:48 pace) 11-5-16 Savannah RNR

11. 3:27:37 (7:56 pace) 5-12-18 Brookings

12. 3:46:02 (8:38 pace) 10-7-18 Towpath

13. 3:35:11 (8:13 pace) 9-12-21 Med City

14. 3:45:45 (8:37 pace) 4-16-23 Coastal Delaware

* = These 5 races were run at 67.9 seconds per pound. If I want a PR, I need to weigh less than 170 pounds.

Short-Term Running Goals:

2023 GOALS:

Coastal Delaware Running Festival Marathon - 4/16/23 - Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Long-Term Running Goals:

Continue running as often as I can, as far as I can, as fast as I can. Teaching my kids (by example) the rewards that come from putting in the work. Very slowly get to 50 states.

Personal:

I'm married, with two sons, 17, and 18.

I started running because someone dared me to.

I ran my first race 3 days after my 40th birthday. (Disney)

My profile picture story: http://www.melissajill.com/blog.cfm?postID=1492&boston-marathon

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4 on the trails. saw 2 snakes today on the paths. corn snake and black racer. 

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Tuesday and Wednesday North Jetty // Harvey | Venice Jetty Surf Report

my oldest flipping and my youngest falling backwards. 

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1 on the trails, then 3.5 miles hood route. After 5 consecutive days of taking at least one kid surfing, I think the streak ends today. The gulf of mexico is a lake today. It has been a really good week, though. 

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5 on the trails.

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2 on the trails. saw 3 snakes. so then, 3.5 miles hood route. 

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6 on the trails

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1 mile on the trails. Then I met and talked to the tire-dragging guy (Isaac) for a really long time. Then 5.5 miles hood route. 

He's 40 and does those 12 and 24 hour spartan-typed races. So he trains on trails, and rarely runs roads. He trains by what his garmin watch / heart rate monitor tells him to do. He also trains with headphones, adheres to dynamic stretching, watches his diet, sleep, and does extensive cross training. He uses pre, post, and during workout dietary supplements. Most importantly, he drags the tire to simulate hills (since most of his races have a lot of hills). I said why not run the bridges over the intercoastal waterway? That would be running on pavement, which is kind of a deal breaker. 

It's funny. I really enjoyed talking to this dude. But for training and goals, we couldn't be more different. Running is my therapy. I feel bad that this guy will never know what it's like to work out a problem that has been bothering you for a while on the course of the run. He feels bad that I will never reach my best performance because I don't plan and micro analyze every training run.

Just know that if you ever see me post my heart rate on a run, my blog has been hacked. 

https://fastrunningblog.com/u/tomkutt/blog-7-on-trails-8-15-am-start-It-39-s/11-16-2020.html

 

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12.9 miles. hood route to legacy trail to Venice Avenue and back. If April can do a 50 miler as a rut buster, I can do not quite 13. 

I saw an old friend at 1.5 deep and talked to him for a minute or two. He's the guy that was part of the "push a car for a marathon" fundraiser group. 

I guess talking to tire puller heart rate hair product yesterday got me thinking that I need to get on with training for a race. I can't run for the sake of running with no race on the horizon. Med City Marathon is in 4 months, the price is right, and flights there are cheap. So here we go. Let's see if I can actually get there, and what time I can pull off. 

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10.2 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to colonia and back. Low humidity today. I had the most obscure song in my head today. Psychopomp by the tea party.

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3 on the trails. i never felt right, so i went home. 

4pm: 3 on legacy trail. from troll music north over roberts bay and back. 

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2 pm start. Hot breeze. we had AC repair guy eat up the morning at our house. 2 on the trails. 3.5 miles. hood route, then 2 more on the trails. I had Chris Isaac's Baby did a bad, bad thing stuck in my head for all of it. 

Also, my oldest turned 16 today. We had a big dinner celebration. So, all the people that were made during Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne are now getting their driver's licenses. 

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at the track. 2 up. (8) x 400M, 2 down. 1:34, 1:36, 1:38, 1:35, 1:35, 1:31, 1:32, 1:30. Better than expected. 

I've been thinking about signing up for a race, since that is now becoming a thing again. I didn't want to do it before seeing if I could run something faster than "easy". 

 

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6 on the trails. surprisingly snappy pace. Also:

1. Today Spouse and I are married for 27 years. I always feel very lucky in this aspect of my life.

2. I signed up for MedCity Marathon in Rochester, Minnesota. I have 4 months to get back to being a decent runner. 

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4 on the trails. then 1.5 miles hood route. I spent way too much time talking to folks I haven't seen in a while today. 

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16.25 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to the circus bridge and back. Right at 10 minute miles. I never pushed it. I haven't run this far since 5/16/2020.

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8 miles. Hood route to legacy trail. then an extra 0.25 mile run to an emergency bathtroom stop, then home. 

Pm: 0.5 up. (10) x 0.15 mile hill (north bridge) sprints. Jog down hill. 0.5 cool down. I could have used a longer warm up / cool down. If you want to know if you're in shape or not, do some hill sprints. Wow. I have work to do.

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5 on the trails

PM: 3 more on legacy trail. 1.5 north from troll music over Roberts bay and back.

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1:30 pm at track. 1.5 up. (4) x 800M w/ 400M recoveries. 1.5 down. 3:25, 3:21, 3:25, 3:27.

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6 miles. middle 2 in 14:59. 2:30 pm start. 

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4 on the trails

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16.25 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to circus bridge and back. 2nd to last mile in 7:44. Hot and sunny. 3 separate equipment failures with the camelbak at miles 2, 9, and 12. clips kept popping out. Oh well. At least there were no emergency bathroom stops on this run. 

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7 miles on legacy trail. venice avenue north to 3.5 miles and back. 5 pam start. the boat ramp was packed. there was a steady stream of boats going under the dona bay bridge too. decent, but slow run. 

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2.75 on trails. 2 @ 15:11, hood route. 2.75 hood route home. 

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