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Member Since:

May 10, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

800: 2:13, Junior year high school

Mile: 4:54, Junior year high school

2-mile: 10:48, Senior year high school

5k: 17:12, CVS Downtown 5k, Fall 2009 16:58, Proud to Run 5k, 6/26/2010

8k: 29:32, Red Rooster Ramble, Spring 2009

10k: 37:30, Chicago Proud to Run, Summer 2009

Half Marathon: 1:26:50, Hog's Back Half, November 2009

Short-Term Running Goals:

Summer:

build to up 70+ miles per week, occasional core and races, follow Jake's school's summer training plan until about August when I'll focus more on the half marathon; new goal: under 17 for 5k. 16:30 for 5k by the end of the summer


 Fall:

By next October I'm shooting to be under 1:20 for an Albany, NY half marathon.

Otherwise, just keeping up the miles so that I'm healthy, and possibly competitive, for a long time to come.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Eventually I would like to run a marathon, hopefully going under 3 hours, maybe significantly so. I'll think about that one when it's more in sight. I hope to continue improving my 5k time in the meantime.

Personal:

I'm an undergraduate at Brown University and part of the running club there. I'm told I should read Once a Runner, especially now that it's in print again... We'll see if that happens. Ok, so I read it, haha. It's awesome.

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Total Distance
8.00

4x4min fartlek, 4 min rest, about 5:20 pace average (fast first one, prolly slow on third one, never over 5:25 i think). overall run in about 56:14. MY GROIN HELD OUT!!!! YAAAUSSSSS!!!! lol. this was good. hot hot hot day though, mid-80s, agh. first one was tough, especially since it was kinda faster. jake led that one, derek and i followed. i led the next one, probably was also fast, got into the leading mentality and definitely felt like i was moving. number 3 was tough, in the sun (so was 2 actually), and then the end up was up a small hill... i think we hit a wall on that one. but the last one we still were able to power out pretty well. i actually felt strong on the last one, kinda led, coulda picked it up or gone the full mile! but it was hot as hell out, stopping hurt... just glad that's done! easy week now, and 5k on saturday lol

Comments
From wheaton on Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 15:41:02 from 72.146.31.164

Hey, finally back on the grid now in alabama for a while. HOT HOT HOT here like mid 90s-low 100s for high. Ran with some super slow pokes at 5am this morning and it was 75F and 100% humidity... at 5AM, what?

Anyway, this is the kind of workout that scares the hell out of me. How are you measuring the distances/paces? Today I am thinking about doing 5x1k at 5:20 pace with equal time recovery. But its gonna be 95+ degrees. Honestly am thinking about using a gps for distance so i can do it on a road by the river and jump in between reps lol. Am scheduled for 3x2miles at threshold which I would much prefer but there is a 5mile race this saturday which would make a good tempo. Would sorta like to race that and count it as vo2max and do my threshold work today. Im such a threshold beast and a vo2max pansy. Why is that? Am I doing vo2 too fast? Threshold too slow? bah who knows.

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