Of Mice and Marathons

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Location:

Lake Orion,MI,

Member Since:

Dec 28, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs

16:52 Phillies Charities 5k (2016)

35:52 Beach to Beacon 10k (2015)

58:10 Broad Street 10 Mile (2016)

1:16:02 Philadelphia Rock and Roll Half Marathon (2015)

2:46:54 Philadelphia Marathon (2015)

Personal:

I live in Michigan with my wife, Megan, and our boys, Charlie and Sawyer. I started running in September 2010.

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Miles:	This week:	34.80	Month:	129.20	Year:	677.60
Miles With Megan Lifetime Miles:						613.75
Nike Zoom Streak LT2 White/Orange Lifetime Miles:						189.95
Saucony Kinvara 5 Viziglow Lifetime Miles:						530.45
Kinvara 10 Lifetime Miles:						186.30
Kinvara 10 II Lifetime Miles:						137.80
Miles With The Boys Lifetime Miles:						99.90
Nike Zoom Streak LT4 Mr. Pinks Lifetime Miles:						21.60
Saucony ISO Freedom 3 Lifetime Miles:						631.45
Saucony ISO Freedom 3 #2 Lifetime Miles:						154.30
Altra Rivera Lifetime Miles:						337.95
Altra Rivera (Dark Blue) Lifetime Miles:						129.10
Saucony Kinvara 5 (2023 Vault Shoe) Lifetime Miles:						263.15
Saucony Kinvara 5 (2023 Vault Shoe II) Lifetime Miles:						250.70
Saucony Kinvara 13 Lifetime Miles:						226.60
Saucony Endorphin Pro Lifetime Miles:						193.50
Saucony Freedom 5 Lifetime Miles:						59.30
Saucony Kinvara 13 #2 Lifetime Miles:						35.00

Sun, Apr 08, 2018

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
7.30	5.00	1.00	0.00	13.30

Noonish: 13.3 miles, averaged 7:32. HR 155.

40' Aerobic Builder

6:47, 6:42, 6:36, 6:33, 6:35, 6:22 (6:35 Avg. HR 169)

30' up/30' down. Covered just over 6 miles (6.07). About 8-9 seconds faster than last week and kept it below 170 avg HR. Felt pretty good. Legs started to stop firing in the last mile. Left leg does that sometimes. Could have run 5-10 seconds faster on the last mile I think. I feel less wiped out throughout the afternoon than last week.

Altra One 2.5 Miles: 13.30

Weight: 178.80

Comments

From Derunzo on Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 20:54:53 from 98.229.177.205

Very nice.

From Tom K on Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 11:38:27 from 47.206.60.114

"I just started to get to the point where I could start to get to the point of getting in shape again." You might be there, bro. This is really good!

From Jason D on Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 12:21:09 from 141.210.128.230

Thanks. To put it in perspective, since fall 2013 almost any time throughout the year I have been able to run the 8-mile version of this at the same pace, and have run it as fast as 6:08 average and have run the 10-mile version (the Big Boy version) as fast as 6:13 average. But I think I am officially getting to a solid starting point. Pleased with how things are rolling at this point.

From Jason D on Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 12:30:45 from 141.210.128.230

Well, there was that time before Boston I did a half marathon tempo @ 6:30 pace for the second half of a 24-mile run. Pretty sure that this compromised my effort in the race 3 weeks later.

http://jasondodge.fastrunningblog.com/blog-FINAL-BIG-WORKOUT-LONG-RUN-24-miles-a/03-29-2014.html

From Tom K on Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 07:35:25 from 47.206.60.114

After 10 miles, is it still a tempo? Don't we get into another category at that point?

You know, I just re-read your posts between your linked post and Boston. There's some good stuff in there. My favorite has to be the non-traditional view on tapering.

It's crazy the number of FRB-ers that were at 2014 Boston. I wish I used that opportunity to meet all of them.

From Jason D on Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:57:28 from 73.144.91.168

For me 10 miles is generally the limit. As I hopefully get faster that number can increase because the overall time will be lower.

Boston 2014 was a great buildup for me. I went from being on the couch in January to a half marathon PR in March and although I blew up in Boston it helped me to build throughout the rest of 2014 for a nice PR that fall.

I wish I had taken the opportunity was well but after the race I was not well. Completely out of it and sick (heat exhaustion).

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