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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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Thu, Jul 30, 2015
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

AM: 8 miles, workout fail. Woke up exhausted, went through the motions of getting ready, did my warmup. I struggled through the file half-mile at MP and pulled the plug.

Always a bummer when that happens, but I've been on for awhile so I'm not too worried.

PM: Absolutely exhausted, no running.

Comments
From Jason D on Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 21:16:32 from 45.46.20.59

In my most of cliched of phrases, but it works for running, "onward and upward." It sounds like you weren't completely suprised given how tired you were. And it will get cooler in, what, October :-) ? Really solid long run this past weekend and several long runs close together last week or the week before.

From Mike on Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 07:04:59 from 66.249.88.183

I agree with Jason. Just transfer this to extra focus on Sunday. This is going to help more than hurt, imho. Onward and upward.

From Drew on Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 18:16:23 from 173.171.218.92

Thanks guys. I was tempted to try to make up for yesterday with something today, but I took Mike's advice, and felt good on an easy run.

Jason - good luck at Beach to Beacon. Quint, our friend and training partner, is heading up there too. You'll be a minute or two ahead of him but in a race like that it probably translates to dozens of people.

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