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August 2010

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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,

Member Since:

Nov 14, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

50k:  4:59 at Buffalo Run in 2010  (32 miles)

Marathon:  3:01 at St. George in 2009!

Half:  1:29 at Painter's/ St. George in 2009.  1:27 at Salt Lake in 2009 (aided course)

10k: 40:53 Greek Festival 10k at Sugar House park in 2010.

5miles: 32:10 Dam 2 Dam in 2009.  Master's winner.

5k: 20:00:00  19:54 in May 2010.

2008:  Ran the Slam + Boston

I need to update this!

Short-Term Running Goals:

Carpe Diem.

Don't trip over my own feet.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running.

Personal:

1 wife

1 girl child

1 boy child

1 big dog

1 little dog

I'm a geologist for my day job.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
259.8812.0011.368.45291.69
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.200.000.000.0010.20

7 ez on JRP. 89°-90° at lunch.

5k ez on JRP. 92° p.m.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.000.000.000.0015.00

Ran from work to Memory Grove and up City Creek...  mostly ez pace- 8:55 ave. 88°- 91°.  A bit hot and tired by the end....

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

6 or so ez miles on JRP. ~88° but some clouds made it feel nice and not so hot.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.100.000.000.0013.10

1/2 mary on the JRP. 8:39 pace @  82°-90°.

I felt like I had a hangover this morning.  Not a drop to drink last night but dinner (yuck) and an evening at Lagoon (an amusement park).   A slight headache and a sour stomach had me dreading this run.  I drank a bunch of water and a guava nectar, took ibuprofen ( I very rarely take any kind of pain meds), took a quick "nap" on the floor of my office, and delayed the start of my run till just after noon.  To my surprise my run went just fine.  I started slow and naturally picked it up a bit as I went.  Now I just need another nap (I wish I had the time) and I might almost feel back to normal.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.400.000.000.607.00

7 miles w/ 6x100 strides.  City Creek.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.8012.000.000.0014.80

The plan called for 3 ez and 12 at marathon pace miles.  I decided to run the pace miles up and down City Creek Canyon, even though the elevation change isn't anything like my goal race.  Since City Creek is steep, I planned to just run at marathon pace effort and see what that brought.

Last year at this point in my training I was one week back after a missing a week due to a sprained ankle.  Then my 12 MP miles were up and down Provo Canyon and I really choked.  Today I feel like I really rocked it!

1.7 mile warm up. 12 MP.  1.1 cool down.  72°-74° (cooler in the canyon)

uphill    downhill (roughly corresponds to uphill mile)

                      6:09(.57mi)

8:42                6:10

9:12                6:10

8:51                6:28

9:06                6:14

10:30              6:00

11:31(.43mi)   6:14

Average pace up and down- 7:40.  Downhill/aided PRs-  5k = 19:07.   5 mile = 31:06.  10k = 38:35.  What does all of this mean?  Probably nothing but I hope I feel as good on race day.  I was running at what felt like a hard but sustainable effort.  I hope I can hold this effort for 26.2.


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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.200.000.000.0010.20

10 ez on JRP @ 80°-83°.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.800.000.002.209.00

9 miles w/ 6 x 600m intervals @5k pace w/ 90 sec recovery.  84°-88°. 

~1.2 mile warm up.

0.38 mile @ 5:35 pace, 1:28 recovery

0.38  5:31,  1:42 rec

0.37  5:49,  1:58 rec

0.37  6:05,  1:47 rec

0.36  6:17,  1:50 rec

0.36  6:23

~5 more very sluggish miles.

I ran with (far behind) the fast guy on the intervals.  I succumbed to chasing the rabbit and ran way too fast on the first 3.  Then I was really hurting on the final 3.  My 5k pr pace is 6:24.   Ugh, trying to run fast is really, really hard.  Now I need to figure out how to get my work done without falling asleep.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

6 needed recovery miles on JRP.  ~88°

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.100.000.000.0011.10

11 miles ez on JRP.  ~79°  :)

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.300.000.000.008.30

8 ez w/ 10x100 strides.  Neighborhood and Memory Grove.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.000.000.000.0015.00

up and down City Creek for 15 cruise-control mile.  This ends my recovery week.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.200.000.000.007.20

7 miles around the hood and up Memory Grove.  

Missed the second run of today's planned double.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.100.000.000.0015.10

15.1 slow and hot miles.  I was dragging today.

Bacon.  This morning in the office the smell of bacon came wafting through.  The smell continued to intensify until a bacon haze filled the air.  This set off the fire alarm.  The entire building (100s of people?) spent maybe 1/2 hour in the parking lot waiting for someone to determine that it was just some bacon cooking fool and not a fire.  I heard it was someone in human resources.  Sheesh!

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.100.000.000.009.10

6 ez on JRP in am.  Hurray for a few clouds and a few drops of rain that made it all the way to the ground!

5k ez on JRP in pm.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.100.007.000.0012.10

JRP.  2 warm up. 7 @15k-1/2 mary pace. 3 cool down.  I packed my fanny pack with ice and water in an effort to combat the heat.... Well I wasn't hot!  I was soaked from my ear wax to my toe jamb!  

 6:52 blustery head wind.

6:53 windy and starting to rain.

6:53 raining.

6:48 downwind in hard rain.

6:57 headwind and a deluge of rain.

6:41 slosh, slosh, slosh....

ave 6:50.  Not sure if these were 15k, 1/2 mary, or ? pace.  The intense rain, lightning, and thunder made it tough to gauge my effort.  I guess I felt pretty good though.  I was pushing but not super hard. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
22.200.000.000.0022.20

22 ez.  downtown, Memory Grove, 11th Ave, City Creek, home.  SLOW and tired.  This run would have been a lot more beneficial if I had done it tomorrow after an ez day today.  Oh well.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.100.000.000.005.10

5 miles at 10,000 feet.  Slow and ez pace on Skyline Drive.  A bit sore from the week.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.200.000.001.909.10

 

 9 miles w/ 5x600m @ 5k & 90 sec recovery.  I didn't run 5k pace but just tried to do better than I did a few weeks ago...  Last time it was 84°-88°.  This week ~ 71°.  This run is on the left. 

mile  pace, recover time

0.37  5:48,  1:36 rec -- 0.38  5:35, 1:28

0.38  5:49,  1:37 rec --  0.38  5:31,  1:42

0.37  5:56,  1:37 rec --  0.37  5:49,  1:58

0.40  5:56,  2:02 rec --  0.37  6:05,  1:47

0.36  6:01,   last one  --  0.36  6:17,  1:50

plan called for 5 this week  --  0.36  6:23

I lost focus on the last one.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.100.000.000.0014.10

14 just get it done miles on JRP.  I got it done.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.100.000.000.006.10

6 ez in the am.  Supposed to do 4 more this pm but right now the air quality is poor....

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

AM 4 ez on JRP.

Lunch 5 ez on JRP.  My most consistent running partner is moving to Texas where her husband will be a traveling nurse.  :( 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
18.100.000.000.0018.10

18 miles-City Creek.  Not much to say...

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.630.004.360.0011.99

The plan called for a race this weekend, but I didn't have the time for one.  :(  So I decided to just run some fast miles.  To make it fun, I ran slowly up City Creek Canyon, then blazed down.  Gravity makes one "fast."  Here are my DOWNHILL splits-

5:59:78  (My first ever sub 6 mile!  Garmin said I  was close, so I pushed to finish below 6.)

6:06

6:11 (2 short up hills)

6:04

last .4 mile @ 5:57

6:04 pace for 4.37 miles.  6:04 pace gets an 18:50 5k!  Isn't gravity swell.  :) 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.250.000.003.7511.00

11 miles with 6x 1000m intervals @ 5k pace, 90 sec rec. 

3 miles warm up.

.63 mile 5:59 pace, 1:39 rec

.62    5:58, 1:42

.62    6:05,  1:54

.62    6:07,  1:50

.62     6:08, 1:50

.62     6:16

4.75 more ez miles on JRP.

Not a great job on these today.  I usually run at 11 or 12, but didn't get out the door till about 3pm.  I just didn't feel that great today.  But at least I got it done and put in an honest effort.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.800.000.000.0015.80

For a change of pace I ran from work to downtown and up City Creek Canyon.  I overshot my planned 15 miles by a bit.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
259.8812.0011.368.45291.69
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