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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: 17.80 Month: 188.40 Year: 510.50
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: 609.15
Saucony ISO Freedom 3 #2 Lifetime Miles: 154.30
Altra Rivera Lifetime Miles: 337.95
Altra Rivera (Dark Blue) Lifetime Miles: 121.50
Saucony Kinvara 5 (2023 Vault Shoe) Lifetime Miles: 263.15
Saucony Kinvara 5 (2023 Vault Shoe II) Lifetime Miles: 228.00
Saucony Kinvara 13 Lifetime Miles: 188.90
Saucony Endorphin Pro Lifetime Miles: 170.00
Saucony Freedom 5 Lifetime Miles: 43.70
Saucony Kinvara 13 #2 Lifetime Miles: 20.30
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
64.750.006.003.7574.50
Inov-8 Roclite 295 Miles: 15.25Kinvara 2 White/Blue Miles: 10.25Saucony A6 Miles: 15.50Kinvara 5 Miles: 13.00Saucony A5 Miles: 10.00Kinvara 5 Blue Miles: 10.50
Weight: 174.63
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.500.000.000.0012.50

Lunch(ish): 7.25 miles on the trails.

I slipped and fell and scraped my knee. It hurt a lot, but I think it's fine. Ran on my baby, Forbidden Drive, for just a short stretch. It's been a while.

PM: 5.25 miles. Did some strides. They felt good.

Inov-8 Roclite 295 Miles: 7.25Kinvara 2 White/Blue Miles: 5.25
Weight: 173.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.500.006.000.0015.50

AM/Lunch: 15.5 miles, averaged 7:20 w/ 6 x 1 mile (~1:45 recovery jog)

Jogged to the tempo loop. Construction everywhere. All I can say is I hope they are making it pretty because that loop is magical and I have work to do in the next 3 weeks.

Jogged some more trying to figure out what to do. Try to find another loop I marked out. Couldn't find it. Saw a track at a school but it was funny looking and the fence looked high and not inviting. I saw a U-shaped residential area road and just ran it blind. The makeshift loop worked nicely even though it wasn't quite a mile (~.8). Ended up with a very sufficient warm up of 5.4 miles.

5:51, 5:51, 5:48, 5:53, 5:53, 5:55 (~5:52 average), split slightly long on a few but close enough.

3.1 cool down. Took down a low hanging fruit Strava course record. It's not an easy hill.

PM:Likely off. Not sure I will fit anything more in today, which is fine.

Saucony A6 Miles: 15.50
Weight: 174.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

AM: Off. Too much work to be done

PM: 8 miles on the trails.

Inov-8 Roclite 295 Miles: 8.00
Weight: 174.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.000.000.000.0013.00

Lunch/PM: 13 miles. Did some strides.

Quite sluggish. Thinking tomorrow is a complete rest day rather than a workout day. Not sure when my last rest day was. I'll move the workout to Friday. Except I think we are getting rain and snow . . .

Kinvara 5 Miles: 13.00
Weight: 174.80
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lDay off.

Typically a sluggish run wouldn't make me take a day off (they are the case in marathon training), but I have woke up the last two days feeling almost as tired as when I went to bed and my body is telling me something I think. Tomorrow's workout should be interesting with the snow (gross).

29 days on. I used to be able to go 40-80 days. I'm getting older I guess (running a bit faster though).

I haven't got the workouts in I wanted to before the 5k in two weeks, but I will be rested for the race which I never do in a 5k. I have two 5k paced workouts scheduled, but doing that crap on the treadmill is not my thing. Might have to just suck it up and let the snot fly indoors.

Late: stretching and rolling, core, push-ups

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.250.000.003.7514.00

AM: Springside Track - 10 miles, averaged 7:33

Mile Breakdown Workout in the snow

I bombed this one on the tempo loop a few weeks ago, and thought I might do it today (among some other options). It was snowing, but I figured I'd try it. I jogged to the track and it was already covered but I could see the lanes through the snow (that ended pretty quickly). I cleared off my usually starting point on the finish line and continued warming up and snow continued to fall. I got busy without much of a proper warm up (3.1 miles, a few pickups but no strides). I just ran and didn't take an 200 or 400 meter splits, just the concluding split. You can see I wasn't really consistent throughout.

1600 in 5:31/400 jog

1200 in 4:14/400 jog (5:36 pace, which was off target)

2 x 800 in 2:45 and 2:50/200 jog (off target second interval)

4 x 400 in 79, 81, 80, 80/200 jog (more or less on target)

Not bad for the first track workout of the year. I am sure I was mentally slowing down on the snow and not getting complete traction but I doubt I would have been too much faster. I was end of race effort after the last 400, so I felt good about my effort. Pleased to get this one in. I wasn't sure I was going to.

2 mile slush plod cool down

PM: Treadmill - 4 miles. More snow than expected. Light core session and pushups.

Saucony A5 Miles: 10.00Kinvara 5 Blue Miles: 4.00
Weight: 174.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.500.000.000.0011.50

PM: Treadmill - 6.5 miles

Evening: 5 miles

Kinvara 2 White/Blue Miles: 5.00Kinvara 5 Blue Miles: 6.50
Weight: 174.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
64.750.006.003.7574.50
Inov-8 Roclite 295 Miles: 15.25Kinvara 2 White/Blue Miles: 10.25Saucony A6 Miles: 15.50Kinvara 5 Miles: 13.00Saucony A5 Miles: 10.00Kinvara 5 Blue Miles: 10.50
Weight: 174.63
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