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Location:

Glendale,AZ,United States

Member Since:

Dec 16, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Recover From Injury

Running Accomplishments:

Pocatello Just Be Cuz Half Marathon 2008 - 1:14:40

4 mile race 2008 - 23:22

5k PR 2008 - 15:52

Pocatello Marathon 2008 PR 2:36:18 - I won the Race

Pocatello Half Marathon 2011 1:34:59 -A year recovery with the new titanium rod first race back.

Short-Term Running Goals:

May 5, 2012 Law Day 10K 38:39 4th Place

May 19, 2012 Tommy Vaughn Half Marathon 1:26:34 3rd Place

Marathon Debut form my accident some date (unknown)

September 1, 2012 Pocatello Marathon 2:54:57 6th overall

November 3, 2012 Just Cuz Half Marathon 1:19:04 second place overall. (what a difference a year makes)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Worship the Lord and praying early in the mornibgs and keep doing that. Staying humble and desperate for the Lord and praying for end-time revival for America.

My Long Term goal is to just run whatever I can.

^{Hebrews 4:16} So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

Personal:

Married, three kids all grown up... now four grandkids and two living with us

Psalm 119:105 NKJV Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

The sound of God is a travelling wave that never stops. It knows no time nor is there any substance it can't penetrate.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Ohana Racers Pair #1 Lifetime Miles:						405.46
Asics Banditos Lifetime Miles:						134.54
Brooks Adrenaline 8 Lifetime Miles:						552.43
Mizuno Idaten Lifetime Miles:						201.92
Saucony Grid Trigon 4 Lifetime Miles:						690.83
Saucony Grid Trigon 5 Lifetime Miles:						456.43
Mizuno Elixir 4 Lifetime Miles:						429.04
Saucony Tangent 3 Green #1 Lifetime Miles:						418.94
Saucony Tangent 3 Green #2 Lifetime Miles:						348.05
Brooks Axiom 2 Lifetime Miles:						522.89
Avia Lites II Lifetime Miles:						365.36
Brooks Axiom 3 Lifetime Miles:						450.58
Brooks Launch Lifetime Miles:						24.41
Brooks Ghost Lifetime Miles:						3.00

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
7.31	3.00	0.00	0.00	10.31

I started getting sick yesterday with a stuffy nose and a small headache and a sour throat so if I was going to feel like running this morning I was going to get to bed early last night. I was in bed before 10pm and slept close to 9 hours. I still woke up with a stuffy runny nose, cough and sour throat, but not bad enough for me to not run.

This morning I did 9 hill repeats over our overpass on Yellowstone. I want to get used to running rolling hills and I thought this was a good start. I ran 10.31 miles at an easy 7:15 pace in 1:14. I did push the hill repeats too hard. This will be my only run today. I don't want to break my immune system down too much.

I figure whatever flat marathon course I decide to run most of them have hidden rolling hills so today was a good training day for that. If you really call this a training day. I feel like I'm still in a post depression St. George Marathon mode. I can't get that race out of my head. I'm still astonished all the things that happened to me in just that one marathon.

(Ohana Asics Racers #1 - 347.8 miles)

Lunch and Evening

600 sit-ups and 200 push-ups. I've developed a cold, but I'm still going to try and run twice tomorrow.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 0.00

Comments

From JimF on Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 19:37:15

Hope you get to feeling better. Nice run considering you didn't feel your best.

I have a question for you. I noticed that you have done some back to back marathons without a lot of time between. I am considering coming back and running another marathon since I feel the weather really effected my performance and I want to see what I am capable of. I am considering the Huntsville marathon. It would give me 8 weeks between marathons. Do you think this is enough time for me and if so how should I plan my training to get ready? Do you think I can come back and put in a good performance or will the first marathon effect performance in the second one? I really appreciate your advice.

Thanks,

Jim

From wheakory on Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 23:07:36

Jim F - Sorry I didn't respond sooner. First give yourself a week of light running to recover or maybe even two. I actually ran faster and had better times each one that I did after another. I think you can get a better time because eight weeks is enough time.

The third week into the 8 week training session I would start to do a 4 to 6 mile tempo run once a week and then a long run of 15 - 18 miles (4 weeks from marathon do 20 miles). You want to have two easy run days. You really don't need to do more than one speed workout during this time, because you don't want to stress your body too much. You could change the tempo run to track work as well. I wouldn't go over 60 miles until maybe four weeks from the marathon then do a three week taper.

The main thing is make sure your recovered before you start back up.

From JimF on Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 18:34:40

Kory,

Thanks for the feedback it is very helpful. Especially the part about making sure that I am fully recovered before getting back into training mode. I am hungry for another chance and I might have tried to push back too fast. I will take a more conservative route. I also want to incorporate more tempo runs into my training especially some longer MP runs.

Thanks again,

jim

From wheakory on Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 20:16:09

Jim - I was going to mention doing longer tempo runs, but I think you might want to wait till after this marathon. Yout don't want to stress a lot of fast stuff until you have a long period to train and build-up to it. If you want I would do some pickup miles or strides on the end of your easy run days just to get more speed.

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