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Location:

North Charleston,SC,USA

Member Since:

Nov 02, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

 

 3 mile (2007) in the Marines  19:00
 5k (Mar 2010) 19:53
 10k (May 2010)  42:06
 10 mile (Nov 2009)  1:15:47
 Half Marathon (Jan 2010)  1:37:57
Marathon (Oct 2010)

3:47:06

12 Hour Ultra (July 2010) 60.8 miles

Short-Term Running Goals:

Qu’est-ce que c’est? 12 h Run (Jul 4) Over 60 miles 60.8 miles

Run a marathon under 4 hours

Run a 5k under 19 minutes

St. George Marathon (Oct 2, 2010)

Myrtle Beach Marathon (Feb 19, 2011) 

Possible upcoming races:

Charleston Half Marathon (Jan 2011) Sub 1:32

2010 Goals:

- Run 2010 miles

- Do 2010 Pull ups (2010+)

- 20,100 Push ups/Sit Ups (20100 so far)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run a Boston Qualifier

Run an ultra marathon

Run a 100 miler

Run at least one marathon a year

Sub 5:20 mile

Sub 18:30 5k

Sub 38 10k

Sub 1:25 half

Sub 3 hour marathon

Badwater Ultra

Hurt 100

Bear 100

Moab 100

Wasatch 100

Umstead 100

Personal:

My name is Vinh Nguyen. I'm 28 years old, former Marine...

Started running when I joined the military in 1999. I did not enjoy running until 2006-7 when I started training for my first marathon. In the Marines, we ran an average of 3-5 miles. I never ran any distances longer than that until I started training for the Myrtle Beach Marathon in 2007.

Currently working as a government contractor (electronics technician).

I finished my Associates of Science in August and have finally been able to train hard full time. I decided to take time of school to see how much of a difference it will make and maybe hopefully achieve my goal and qualify for Boston.

 "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
"The only easy day was yesterday"

 

 

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Pitbull feat Akon - Shut it down
DJ Khaled - All I do is win
Ludacris - How low can you go
TI - Big Things Poppin
Kanye - Amazing

 

 

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4 AM - 4 mile run

6 PM - 800m repeats x 8

90 second rest in between. I thought we were going to do a 400m recovery but I'm glad we didn't lol!

This workout was killer! Almost felt like puking twice!

2 mile warm up

1st 800 - 3:00

2nd 800 - 2:56

3rd 800 - 3:03

4th 800 - 3:05

5th 800 - 3:07

6th 800 - 3:16 (um, you can tell I was hurting/lolligagging on this one lol)

7th 800 - 3:07

8th 800 - 3:08

.5 mile cool down

Comments
From Kelli on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 13:24:45 from 71.219.71.229

Nice workouts!! You are a man with a plan.

I need the story behind your new picture. Who are all these men, where are you all running??? Is one of them you? Your other picture was a close up, so now I am just plain lost!

From nguyenvn on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 14:05:07 from 75.77.22.187

Thanks Kelli!

So this picture is of the 2008 Marine Corps Mud Run that my team (4 person team) ran in Columbia SC. I'm the one in the middle.

The mud run was 4.2 miles with 30 obstacles. It was more fun than challenging.

From Kelli on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 14:16:07 from 71.219.71.229

MUD RUN sounds challenging. What kind of obstacles? Sounds fun, actually. Maybe we need to do a snow run with obstacles (aside from the ice).

From nguyenvn on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 21:09:02 from 71.68.254.197

Kelli, here is a link to the mud run obstacles. A snow run sounds fun!

http://www.usmcmudrun.org/course.html

From Lyman on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 21:45:23 from 75.169.104.191

Those are some killer 800s today. To top it off you are only getting 90 seconds of recovery. I usually jog for 2.5 minutes between my 800s for recovery, which sounds kind of wimpy compared to your 800s. Do you have a race coming up?

From nguyenvn on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 21:54:44 from 71.68.254.197

Thanks Lyman! Those 90 seconds went by too fast! My next race is a 5k on Dec. 5th. Hoping to run it in 20:30-20:59 range.

From Huans32 on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 09:13:24 from 138.64.2.76

Excellent run. All but that one you were hurting on. You did really well. That is like the Yasso's. That would predict around a 3:05 marathon. AWESOME

From Lyman on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:24:16 from 170.135.241.46

I think you've got a shot at a sub 20:00 5-k given the speed of your 800s for the Dec. 5th race.

From Cal on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:41:23 from 66.133.117.3

Good speed on your 800's. Nice workout. You should have a killer 5k time in your race.

From nguyenvn on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 13:19:22 from 75.77.22.187

Huans - I wish I could run a 3:05 marathon lol. I'm not sure if the Yasso 800's are a good indicator for me. Hopefully I'm around 3:30 tho.

Lyman - That would be awesome if I ran a sub 20 but I'd still be happy with a 20:30. If the course is properly marked that is.

Cal - Thanks! Hopefully all goes well on race day. I always seem to train well but race poorly.

From Huans32 on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 16:40:40 from 138.64.2.76

Something interesting I noticed for your 800s. Just kind of remembering the 400s. You holding on to the same paces if not faster then what you did your 400s. Dude that is smoken fast. Your looking right at the 20:00 mark. So if I was you plan your 5k to run around that pace wise. And you should hit very close to it.

From nguyenvn on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 20:09:51 from 71.68.254.197

Huan - For my 400's, I used my Garmin watch to get my quarter mile splits. I'm not sure that it was very accurate b/c I was going off the chime (maybe some delay somewhere). For the 800's, I used a stopwatch on a 400m stretch (I went up and back). I think the 800's were more accurate. What do you think? I plan to run some mile repeats next Tuesday to see where I'm at.

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