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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
83.250.004.003.7591.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

AM: 9 miles moderate with Lee and Christina. Way too humid for January.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.000.000.000.0016.00

AM: 8 miles. Big week ahead.

PM: 8 miles at lunch with Quint.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.250.000.003.7514.00

AM: 6 relaxed miles. Christmas decorations are put away, everyone is back to work or back to school. I'm ready to get focused. Tonight is my first real track workout in over a month. We're repeating a ladder we did in late September when I was at a peak, firing on all cylinders. So tonight's workout should be...telling.

PM: 8 miles at SPC track. I ran a descending ladder with Mike and Lee. Here's the format:

1 X 1 MILE, 400 REST, 1 X 1200, 400 REST, 800 WITH 200 REST 800 WITH 400 REST, 4 X 400 WITH 200 REST

I last ran this workout Sept 23rd, and it was one of my best track workouts to date. At the time, I was coming off a couple months of high mileage, and I had a few weeks of sharpening under my belt.

Since then, I've had positive weeks, but also a few weeks lost to a hamstring injury and the flu. This was my first real track workout in over a month.

I didn't think I could match Sept 23rd tonight, but I was hoping to be in the neighborhood. Overall, I was. I struggled most on the 800s, at which point the missing stamina became pretty apparent. Overall though, I can't complain. The parentheses indicate the number of seconds over (+) or equal to (=) my comparable time from Sept. Recovery pace was slow, 2:30-2:45 per 400.

Mile: 4:59 (=)
1200: 3:42 (+1)
800s: 2:26 (+1), 2:27 (+2)
400s: 1:11 (+2), 1:09 (=), 1:09 (=), 1:08 (+1)

I'm hoping this is more a baseline than a peak now.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.000.000.000.0014.00

AM: 7 miles.

PM: 7 miles at lunch.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.004.000.0016.00

AM: 10 miles on a (Florida) cold and windy morning. Plan was 4 mile tempo at 15k target pace (5:27). Averaged 5:40 for 4 miles. Part of that was on me, but the wind today could not be denied.

PM: 6 miles at lunch with Quint.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.000.000.000.0014.00

AM: 10 miles in the outer darkness.

PM: 4 miles after work with strides. Went to Lakeland to work on a client site today. It gave me a new appreciation for Tampa/St. Pete.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

AM: 8 miles with strides. Heading off to Orlando in a couple hours.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
83.250.004.003.7591.00
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