| Location: Austin,TX,USA Member Since: Jun 07, 2010 Gender: Male Goal Type: Boston Qualifier Running Accomplishments:
2006 – London Marathon – 3:42
2007 – London Marathon – 3:49
2008 –Austin Marathon – 3:19.20
2009 – 3M Half Marathon – 1:29.20
2009 – Austin Marathon – 3:23
2009 – San Antonio Marathon – 3:36
2010 – Steamtown Marathon – 3:17:56 (PR)
2011 - Austin Marathon - 3:27
2012 - London - 3:27 Short-Term Running Goals: Break all my PRs during the Austin FIT Distance Challenge:
10K - 40:41
10 miles - 68:02
1/2 Maration - Decker - 1:30:30
1/2 Marathon - 3M - 1:29:25
30K - 2:30
Marathon - 3:17 Long-Term Running Goals: Break 3 hours for the marathon Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 124.00 | 7.25 | 11.95 | 0.25 | 143.45 |
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| Saucony Mirage 3 - White #2 Miles: 32.70 | Saucony Mirage 3 - Grey Miles: 29.40 | Saucony Kinvara 4 - White Miles: 20.50 | Brooks PureCadence 2 - Black Miles: 31.35 | Brooks PureCadence 2 - Red Miles: 29.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.90 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.90 |
| Easy run with Mark.
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| Saucony Mirage 3 - White #2 Miles: 7.90 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 easy mile before race day!
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| Saucony Mirage 3 - Grey Miles: 4.00 |
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IBM 10K (6.2 Miles) 00:43:35, Place overall: 121, Place in age division: 13 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.80 | 3.00 | 3.20 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| Wonderful morning for a run. Alas my training did not warrant the time that a day like today deserves. Still I'm right about where I thought I would be so I at least I'm still good at guaging my pace/endurance. There is lot of work to be done. I take solice from the fact that I ran over 2 minutes slower in this race in 2007, and still ran a 3:19 in the marathon 4 months later. Stranger things have happened.
As I said I knew I wasn't in great shape so I went out easy. However, perhaps a little too easy. First mile was 7:15 pace, which was also due to congestion issues. I will never understand why someone who is running 1 10+ minute mile pace decides to push towards the front! On the second mile I picked it up, and also in the 3rd, stuggled through #4, just about held it together in mile 5, and then pushed with everything I had in the tank. That last mile was at about 6:30 pace, but it shouldn't have felt that tough to average 7:01 for a 10K. Its 3 weeks until the 10 miler that is the Run for the Water. I have set myself a goal to run faster than I did today. Let's see if i can do it!
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| Saucony Kinvara 4 - White Miles: 11.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Spring Creek. Cut it short as legs tired after Sunday. Great morning for a run...I felt cold ;o).
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| Saucony Mirage 3 - White #2 Miles: 7.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.15 |
| Easy run.
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| Saucony Mirage 3 - Grey Miles: 5.15 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.75 | 0.00 | 3.75 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| 1,200s at the track. Could feel lack of fitness on this one. Still did long cool down for good mileage. AS they said in Field of Dreams...."if you build it (stamina and endurance from training)...they (or perhaps speed in this case) will come"!!!
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| Saucony Kinvara 4 - White Miles: 9.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.20 |
| This was supposed to be 5 easy miles, but legs felt like lead, and feet like anchors to the ground. However, I wanted to get in a few so hat I can try to hit 50 for the week!
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| Saucony Mirage 3 - White #2 Miles: 5.20 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.70 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.70 |
| Hot and humid out. For the first couple of miles my legs felt ok, but then I started going backwards. Pace was pedestrian to say the least. However, as Tom Petty said...I won't back down...and I didn't. 50 for the week...YESSSSS!
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| Saucony Mirage 3 - Grey Miles: 11.70 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.25 |
| Legs felt like lead ;o(
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| Saucony Mirage 3 - White #2 Miles: 3.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.55 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.55 |
| Wilke. I suffered, but I made it through.
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| Saucony Mirage 3 - Grey Miles: 8.55 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.35 | 1.25 | 3.00 | 0.25 | 8.85 |
| Oh yes, that felt good. Finally a cool day to see if there was any life in my ol' legs...and the answer was YES! Still a long way from my best, but I made it rhough the workout, and felt strong all the way through. I didn't have the extra gear on the final 400...but still managed a mini hammer drop.
OK the workout was warm up, 2,000 @ MGP, 3 x 1,000 @ HMGP, and 4 x 400 @ 5K pace. As usual the pacing gets totally thrown out the window. However. we decided not to too foolish. The 2,000 was done at about 1:43/1:44 per lap....or about 6:55 mile pace...maybe one day I'll run a marathon at the speed. 1,000s were done at about 1:37 per lap. 400s were about 1:31/1:32...the last one was at 1:21. Mike flew past me at about 150 metres. I held on until 200 meters. He made a move...I tried o counter....but it wasn't quiet there. Still I finished strong. I needed a confidence booster ahead of the 10 miler...
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| Saucony Mirage 3 - White #2 Miles: 8.85 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.20 |
| Easy run over Hancock Gold Course. Legs felt pretty good.
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| Brooks PureCadence 2 - Black Miles: 5.20 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| I stepped outside this morning, and I felt COLD!!!!!! It was good conditions for a run albeit a little breezy at times. Decided to run from the house as I didn't fancy the point-to-point. I felt good until the last 1 1/2 miles when I could feel I was going into uncharted terriroty distance wise. It was then that I realized that I hadn't run that far in a training run since January. I could also feel the extra miles from the past couple of weeks. I'm going to back off the mileage next week so that I can run a good 10 miler next weekend....I'll then be seeking 50 miles the folloiwing week as I gear up for Decker, which will be the acid test of any progress I have made on the fitness front!
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| Brooks PureCadence 2 - Red Miles: 15.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.15 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.15 |
| Felt good after 2 days off. Sometimes it needs to be done...
Hill workout on Rainbow. Different to last time. This time it was an 800 metre loop with 90 second recovery. We did 6 loops then 2 x backwatds and 2 x sprints...but the backwards/spints were much longer than normal so it all evened out.
Liking the transition to Brooks so far. They simply have more room in the toe box than the saucony's. My right little toe was getting a little smushed in the Saucony's...and that was even after I tried a pair 1/2 size up, which were a little loose in general. The brooks are a little spongy at first, but that soon goes away.
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| Brooks PureCadence 2 - Black Miles: 8.15 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Easy recovery run.
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| Brooks PureCadence 2 - Red Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Strange run this morning. Started with the group for a Fartlek on the trail. However, it was very dark on the trail and got a little spooked when almost took a tumble due to a part of the tral being cut up....and I wasn't running hard. I just didn't fancy pushing it so headed home early.
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| Brooks PureCadence 2 - Red Miles: 5.00 |
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Run for the Water (10 Miles) 00:00:00, Place overall: 213, Place in age division: 29 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Train wreck...that's how I'd describe that run. I knew I wasn't in the best of shape, and I was a bit unlucky with a few thinsg this week, but that was pretty soul destroying. Hopefully I can re-group in the coming days. If I run that badly at Decker then I may quit running....;o(
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| Brooks PureCadence 2 - Black Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Easy run with Mark.
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| Brooks PureCadence 2 - Black Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| Only got about 3 hours sleep due to storm related issues so knew it was futile to attempt a full workout. Therefore I figured a few 800s would get the bloody pumping, but not destroy me at the same time. I did 4 x 800s at a pretty good clip. Wanted to do more and go faster, but I think it would have been detrimental in the long run.
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| Brooks PureCadence 2 - Red Miles: 5.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 124.00 | 7.25 | 11.95 | 0.25 | 143.45 |
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| Saucony Mirage 3 - White #2 Miles: 32.70 | Saucony Mirage 3 - Grey Miles: 29.40 | Saucony Kinvara 4 - White Miles: 20.50 | Brooks PureCadence 2 - Black Miles: 31.35 | Brooks PureCadence 2 - Red Miles: 29.50 |
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