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Member Since:

Mar 09, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Not going to list high school PR's.  They don't count anymore.

5k - 19:53 (6:23 pace) - Blue Talon 5k - 11/29/09

8k - 34:36 (6:57 pace) - Ntelos 8k - 11/11/07

10k - 41:33 (6:41 pace) - Monument Ave 10k - 4/02/11

10 mile - 1:08:40 (6:52 pace) - Army 10 Miler - 10/21/10

1/2 Marathon - 1:36:52 (7:23 pace) - MAC NCR Trail 1/2 Marathon - 5/07/11

Marathon - 3:28:16 (7:56 pace) - Vegas Marathon - 12/05/10

50K - 7:10 (actual moving pace unknown) - Run Under The Stars 10 Hour Endurance Run.  6/12/10.  Ran on the same day as the Hatfield McCoy Marathon.

Short-Term Running Goals:

to continue to improve.  Would love to get the elusive BQ.  Ive been a consistent runner since 2006 but I truly didn't take training seriously until the fall of 2010.  Before that.. I pretty much relied on my athletic ability to just get me to the finish line of events.  Still truly haven't figured out the marathon distance.  Currently just spending time awaiting for my marathon training to begin in June.  Aiming for a strong fall Marathon PR.  We will see.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Have to finish NYC, Boston, Pikes Peak & Chicago.  After that would love a shot at Commrades and possibly a 100 miler.  Who wouldn't want a belt buckle.

Personal:

Married with two kids (9 & 5)

Marathon Maniac #2635  woo hoo!!

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Mizuno Wave Rider 14 - Yellow & Black Lifetime Miles: 451.51
Mizuno Wave Rider 14 - All Red Lifetime Miles: 323.38
Mizuno Wave Rider 14 - All Red 2nd Pair Lifetime Miles: 68.40
Mizuno Wave Rider 14 - Blue & Black Lifetime Miles: 336.49
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
42.881.0043.88
Mizuno Wave Rider 14 - All Red Miles: 43.88
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.250.005.25

5 easy (8:08, 7:49, 7:45, 7:38, 7:26)

felt great.  no issues.

This weeks schedule is to be played by ear.  Everything to be either TOF or easy.  Will probably run something like this :

M - 5

T - 8

W - 5

T - 5

S - 17

Thats 40 miles for the week with Sunday pending still feeling good.  Hopefully to resume full fledged training next week.  

Mizuno Wave Rider 14 - All Red Miles: 5.25
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.131.008.13

8 (8:54, 8:55, 8:56, 8:54, 8:57, 8:44, 8:39, 6:37)

felt great again.. no issues. 

Mizuno Wave Rider 14 - All Red Miles: 8.13
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4.890.004.89

4.89 @ John (8:59, 8:30, 8:25, 8:22, 8:33)

Pretty warm run and humid again of course.  What I thought was uncharged Garmin turned out to be a Garmin that wasnt responding to anything including plugging into the computer.  Got home and called the support line.. he walked me through a hard reset by holding Lap Reset and the power button and viola.. it came back to life.  Odd.. hopefully not a thing of future things to come with the product.

Was good running with John.. it had been probably close to 2 months since we had been able to get our schedules together and plan something.

Unable to ice afterwards but will hit the foam roller very shortly here at the house 

Mizuno Wave Rider 14 - All Red Miles: 4.89
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.460.008.46

8 (warmup, 2x 3 miles, cooldown)

Warmup mile (9:04)

1x 3 miles (8:46, 8:10, 8:03)

2x 3 miles (7:48, 7:52, 7:45)

Cooldown mile (8:25)

The storm cooled down the temperature quite a bit.. probably low to mid 80's degrees.. humidity rather high still.

Felt great. 

Mizuno Wave Rider 14 - All Red Miles: 8.46
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
17.150.0017.15

17 (8:25, 7:48, 8:05, 7:59, 8:08, 8:09, 8:14, 8:18, 8:25, 8:19, 8:20, 8:34, 8:46, 9:01, 9:18, 9:54, 9:41)

Nice positive split long run.  lol.  Felt like a$$ for the second half of that run.  No real aches or pains.. my body simply hit the wall and didnt feel like running.  If they all came easy then  I guess I wouldnt be so challenged by the sport.  

Might need to start thinking about using gu's now that these runs are creeping up there distance wise.  Regardless.. the miles are in the bank.  

Myself and a handful of others are totally the slowest on the team by far.. but quite a few team mates are injured with stress fractures, knee issues, IT bands, etc and many have decided to either move downwards or have been demoted by the coaches to a slower team.

onwards

Crash 

Mizuno Wave Rider 14 - All Red Miles: 17.15
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Mizuno Wave Rider 14 - All Red Miles: 43.88
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