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Location:

St. Petersburg,FL,

Member Since:

Dec 30, 2014

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

  • 5k - 3/8/14 - Armadillo Run - 15:58
  • 10k - 2/7/15 - BDR, Safety Harbor - 33:17
  • 15k - 2/21/15 - Gasparilla - 51:05
  • 1/2 - 12/14/14 - Holiday Halfathon - 1:13:31
  • Marathon - 10/04/15 - Twin Cities - 2:38:46

Short-Term Running Goals:

2016 Races

Clearwater Halfathon - Jan 11
Donna Hicken Marathon - Feb 14
Gasparilla 15k - Feb 20
Florida Beach Halfathon - Mar 6
??? Chicago Marathon ???

Long-Term Running Goals:

Find balance. Run with my girls. Break 15 in the 5k.

Personal:

Born in 1973 in Southern California.

Ran in high school for Arcadia. They have a famous cross-country team now. In my day, we were famous for dodging our coach during runs.

Over the next 15 years I ran very little, but life was awesome. I lived mostly in Northern California, where I met my wife. We moved back to her native state of Florida in 2005, where I gradually started running more seriously.

 

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Race: Triple Crown 3200 (1.988 Miles) 00:09:57, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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AM: 5 with strides, track race tonight.

PM: 5 miles, including a 3200 at the University of Tampa.

This was a lowkey event, run in a single heat. The closest I've run to this distance was the 2 mile in high school, and my intention was just to lock in with fast runners and knock out two miles (well, 3200) as quickly as possible.

My training partner Lee gave me another talking to on Tuesday about not racing against the clock, sticking with the competition, etc. I promised him this was a good race to implement that approach, and I did my best to stick to it.

I expected the race to go out fast, but after 200 meters the pace felt fairly conservative. So on the backstrech I took the lead and led the group for the next 300 meters or so. The first lap passed in 1:11-1:12, and shortly after that the reality settled on me that I couldn't hang with that and expect to finish in one piece. The train passed me by over the next 400, and I slowed a second or so per mile.

Normally I'm pretty good about maintaining my pace, but in the humidity it's very hard to run an aggressive pace and stick with it. I don't think starting hard had any seriously negative impact, but I don't think it helped massively either. I felt a tangible wall, right around 5:00 pace. I ran mostly 75 second 400s, and felt OK, but my training right now is not optimized for sustaining paces much faster than that.

All in all though, this was a positive race. I ran a full week of mileage and hung around better than I did in my last 5k. I came through 1600 in 4:56, and at that point I focused on keeping my time under 10 minutes. I hit the 7th lap in 8:46, and was able to close in 71-72.

The most important thing for tonight was to adjust myself to running much faster than 5:55 pace. My family came out to cheer, and my older daughter ran 800 meters of the cooldown with me. My friends made a big deal of that, and that was something I could really be proud of.

Comments
From Mike on Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 08:51:00 from 65.34.80.35

I'm really excited to see the positive impact that your running/exercise has on your daughters. Even though it's only a couple of laps, she was just excited to do that with you. I can tell you I had NEVER been excited to do any running at that age, so that's a special thing to possibly carefully facilitate with her.

From Jason D on Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 13:52:42 from 68.80.27.222

Good stuff, Drew. I am just now learning about racing versus racing the clock. I've known the difference for some time, of course, but actually doing it is harder.

From Drew on Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 14:21:42 from 173.171.218.92

Oof, I am not comfortable when I need to race outside of planned target paces. Sometimes that works well for me, sometimes not. I'm trying to get better at it.

Never got to say "Thanks!" for sending all the 4/3/2/1 details, so Thanks! I was pretty blown away that you could handle such short rest between sets in your variation. I'm leaning toward the 1/2 mile rest Jake did, and even that sounds a little scary.

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