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Purdue Boilermaker Half Marathon

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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
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Saucony Kinvara 13 #2 Lifetime Miles: 20.30
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
79.507.0013.101.00100.60
Saucony Kinvara Miles: 6.00Saucony Kinvara 2 (2) Miles: 18.50Newton Trainer 5 Miles: 21.00Newton MV2 (Black) Miles: 21.25Saucony Kinvara 2 Miles: 10.25Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 4.00Newton Trainer 4 Miles: 4.25Newton MV3 Miles: 15.35
Weight: 171.83
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.500.000.000.0016.50

AM/Lunch: Spring Vale Cemetery - 10.5 miles, averaged 7:56. Beautiful fall day.

PM: North side - 6 miles, averaged 8:11

Saucony Kinvara Miles: 6.00Saucony Kinvara 2 (2) Miles: 10.50
Weight: 172.20
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.000.000.000.0016.00

AM: Firecracker loop w/ modified wick - 11 miles, averaged 7:47. Did some strides.

PM: Rest Haven Cemetery - 5 miles, averaged 8:17

Newton Trainer 5 Miles: 11.00Saucony Kinvara 2 (2) Miles: 5.00
Weight: 172.40
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.257.000.000.0013.25

Skipped the AM because I had to do some academic work. I hate when that happens. 13.25 miles, averaged 7:03 w/ Aerobic Builder: 7-Mile AT Tempo over slight rolling hills in 44:48 (6:26 average): 6:28, 6:30, 6:28, 6:29, 6:26, 6:24, 6:17. 3 up, 3.25 down.

Not sure why I never do workouts in this park (Murdock). Just under a mile around the perimeter, two bathrooms and fountains. I guess I worried about the downhill, which are short but somewhat steep (enough that I have to work a bit to keep my feet under me). Uphills are likewise short, but they force me to slow down and change my form (which is what I was looking for). Could have gone 8 or 9, but with a race this weekend, and no idea what recovery will be like tomorrow (no shakeout run, up and down hills) 7 was probably more than plenty. Pleased with this one.

At one point I thought I heard crying, but I looked down and it was just my fat cells :-)

Newton MV2 (Black) Miles: 13.25
Weight: 171.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.250.000.000.0016.25

AM: Spring Vale Cemetery + North side detours - 10 miles, averaged 8:04

PM: Greenbush/Creasy/Union to the Rest Haven for a lap or two then back - 6.25 miles, averaged 8:05

Newton Trainer 5 Miles: 10.00Saucony Kinvara 2 Miles: 6.25
Weight: 170.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.001.008.00

AM: Off. Work to be done, but I have a race Saturday anyway and I am gunning pretty hard for my first 100-mile week without stretching it too much the next 3 days. On the academic side of things, I decided to postpone the job search, which has me relieved as it allows me to focus on finishing my work in a quality fashion. Should stop me from stress eating, which I have been doing lately, which accounts for the weight that hasn't gone anywhere despite running 89 miles per week for the last 9 weeks. 200s into the fall air this afternnoon to stretch the legs.

PM: 8 miles w/ 8 x 200 in 37.6. Slower than I wanted, but these were about +10 meters (.13 on the Garmin), so my goal of 35-36 was probably not far off. Wanted to run about 4:45-4:50 pace, but mostly to stretch the legs out. That's where I was.

Newton MV2 (Black) Miles: 8.00
Weight: 172.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

AM: 4 miles easy, averaged 8:25. Did some pace strides up and down hills as I encountered them. Legs are tired, but the first mile today suggested they are still breathing. 9:15 as usual and I tried to crawl as much as possible.

PM:  Rest Haven - 4 miles, averaged 8:13. Did a few paces strides. Felt ok.

Saucony Kinvara 2 Miles: 4.00Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 4.00
Weight: 172.00
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Race: Purdue Boilermaker Half Marathon (13.109 Miles) 01:20:20, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.500.0013.100.0022.60

AM: Boilermaker Half. Missed my sub-1:20 goal, but this was a workout at the end of my biggest week ever and if I said I was disappointed I'd also have to consider myself foolish. 

Rainy and 42. My first race of perhaps 30 or so that it has rained (Beach to Beacon had a passing shower this summer). This is the second year of the race and the 3rd revision to the course, but I double checked to make sure it was still certified. Indeed it is. Timex it is. I wanted to run about 6:00 minute pace on the flats and work the hills by effort, finishing 1:18:30-1:20. I was running close to 6 flat for the first 6 or 7 miles, then the uphills started and I lost some time, which was to be expected. My real goal was to finish in the top 10. I was 9th for the first two miles (we were packed up, which was super fun), and a few guys fell off around mile 4 and I moved into 5 for most of the race, passing a young fellow at mile 12 to break into 4th (a top 3 finish would have required 1:18 something). I felt like I raced according to effort today, and kept it honest. I was pretty tired from mile 7 on, but I didn't feel completely dead-legged in the final 1-2 miles (just heavy). On a flat course I'm not sure how much faster my time would have been. The real goal is in two weeks anyway, so that is were I am looking. With 50-60 miles in my legs rather than 80 and a dead flat course, I expect a decent PR (of course not as big as the last jump).

2.25 up and 3 down. I started to bonk and get dizzy on the cool down (I decided to run without a gel for the first time in a half, took no water given that it was coming from the sky and it was cool). So . . . things I consumed while running my cool down: large cup of Gatorade recovery, a granola bar maybe 2, a banana, some rice cakes, 2-3 packages of fancy graham cracker things. Some other crap too I think. I felt better after that. Good practice for potential, future ultras too.

Rich, chocolatey goodness: 5:59, 6:03, 6:14, 6:00, 5:47 (quite downhill), 6:08 (slight hill toward the end) 6:04, 6:13, 6:22, 6:16, 6:11, 6:30 (hills), 6:02, ~33 seconds for the partial. It's a .1 steepish downhill, which I both love and hate.

My second fastest time for the half, so that's also good (a minute faster than my old PR last April)

About mile 8 I heard a young woman say what sounded like "they went out too fast." I almost gave her a Mr. Murphy lecture on being a good volunteer but I figured if I stopped I would roll back down the hill from campus into the Wabash river.

PM: 4.25 in the cemetery in just under 35 minutes.

My first 100-mile week! A PR in mileage by 5 or 6 miles I think. Maybe another one next week, but it's hard to tell. Definitely something into the 90s, a number that has served me quite well over the last 9-10 weeks.

 

Why do we lose good running form? See knee drive on #3.

Newton Trainer 4 Miles: 4.25Saucony Kinvara 2 (2) Miles: 3.00Newton MV3 Miles: 15.35
Weight: 172.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
79.507.0013.101.00100.60
Saucony Kinvara Miles: 6.00Saucony Kinvara 2 (2) Miles: 18.50Newton Trainer 5 Miles: 21.00Newton MV2 (Black) Miles: 21.25Saucony Kinvara 2 Miles: 10.25Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 4.00Newton Trainer 4 Miles: 4.25Newton MV3 Miles: 15.35
Weight: 171.83
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