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Mayor's Cup 10 Miler (15k)

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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
40.2510.004.360.0054.61
Kinvara 5 Green Miles: 21.50Miles With Megan Miles: 11.25Newton Gravity III Miles: 5.00Kinvara 2 White/Blue Miles: 13.75Saucony A6 Miles: 10.36
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.250.000.000.006.25

AM: 6.25 miles w/ Megan.

HR 130. Felt good despite some terrible eating and drinking choices. Megan was on the move today. She asked me to speed up to 10k pace at the end so I switched my pace on and we picked it up. She was impressed.

Kinvara 5 Green Miles: 6.25Miles With Megan Miles: 6.25
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.500.000.000.0013.50

Lunch: 7.5 miles. HR 145.

The weather in Maine has been great. Lower 80s and dry.

PM: 6 miles. HR 131. 5 miles with Megan, then 1 mile barefoot on the tar running back and forth. I upped the ante from the grass. Road was pretty much rock free.

Newton Gravity III Miles: 5.00Kinvara 2 White/Blue Miles: 7.50Miles With Megan Miles: 5.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.005.000.000.007.00

AM: Off. Going to DEW Animal Kingdom. It's basically a redneck zoo, but very cool. The owners have a profound passion for critters.

PM: 7 miles. HR 161. 1 mile easy (9:00), then 5 steady @ 6:30 average over somewhat rolling course, 1 mile (~9:15)

Just a short workout to clear the grumpy care bear cloud hanging over my head. Too early for a workout after a key race but not much of a workout. Massively dehydrated and I ate about a dozen peanut butter snickers before the run. Guts sloshing everywhere. Effort was high. I got a side stitch during my short cool down. Pretty strong indication of bad dehydration.

Splits: 6:28, 6:37, 6:28, 6:23, 6:36

Kinvara 5 Green Miles: 7.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.250.000.000.006.25

AM: Off. Family time. 

PM: 6.25 miles. HR 131.

Pretty much a down week at this point. That's okay. Long tempo on Saturday for the Mayor's Cup. Plan is to run progressively at ~marathon pace.

 

Kinvara 2 White/Blue Miles: 6.25
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.000.000.000.000.00

Off. Travel.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.250.000.000.008.25

AM/Lunch: 8.25 miles. HR 154. Did some strides in the middle.

PM: Off. Decided to take the afternoon off and get some fluids in and get back on track from vacation/down week

+ stretching (very late)

Kinvara 5 Green Miles: 8.25
Weight: 0.00
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Race: Mayor's Cup 10 Miler (15k) (9.36 Miles) 01:00:24, Place overall: 11
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.005.004.360.0013.36

AM: Mayor's Cup 10 Miler - 13.36 total. 1 up, 15k steady state (HR 174), 3 mile barefoot cool down.

I decided to give this one a race report since it was technically a race and although I wasn't really racing for time or place I ran a little harder than I planned. Our team wasn't going to win eveything but I didn't want to go into it with that mindset.

This was the inagural Mayor's Cup and the Wanderers thought I was the best candidate for the 10 miler on the roads. I planned to run a 10 mile progression at roughly marathon pace, starting at just under 6:40 and cutting down. My diet and drinking at my parents' was full on vacation mode and I knew I wasn't going to run roughly 6-minute pace on this course. However, I still wanted to put in an effort and not embarrass myself (even though we aren't a competitive team).

All events had the same start and finish line, which proved near disastrous for my finish (more on that later.) The race started on the historic Bellmont Plateau, so I got to start and finish on part of the course. We took off roughly on time and had some decently dry air for the morning, beautiful for August. The first part is on grass and uphill on some rough sections, so I started sensibly and worked from there. Some decent downhills toward the end of the first mile into the second, then onto and out and back section of Martin Luther King Drive. Below, the slow splits and high heartrate at the end are the hills on the way back up.

I knew I wasn't going to be in contention for the win so I focused on running at an effort slightly higher than my 8 miler aerobic efforts I usually do. I began picking off some guys and working on a pack of ladies who died at various points, while only passing the last lady mere seconds from the finish line. The hills on the way back up hurt a good bit but then I was able to start a decent kick along the grass finish. RIGHT THEN THE 5 MILE RACE TOOK OFF and I ran through a crowd of people who knocked into the woman in front of me. I assured them that I would not stop and I didn't.

I knew the course was short beginning around mile 5 (and what's a kilometer between friends?) but I wasn't worried. I fully expected it.

The rich chocolatey goodness with heart rate (I wanted some early marathon training data to see my progression):

6:30 (160), 5:59 (170), 6:25 (172), 6:21 (174), 6:27 (175), 6:15 (177), 6:21 (178), 6:56 (179), 7:18 (180), 1:51 (181, ~5:15 pace); HR Avg 174

We had a BBQ and beers after. Pretty cool event that was quite well run given its complexity.

PM: Off.

Saucony A6 Miles: 10.36
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
40.2510.004.360.0054.61
Kinvara 5 Green Miles: 21.50Miles With Megan Miles: 11.25Newton Gravity III Miles: 5.00Kinvara 2 White/Blue Miles: 13.75Saucony A6 Miles: 10.36
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