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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
7.00

Haynes, you won't be happy with me, but I'm gonna try to keep it up! I might scratch the extra miles on harder days like today... This was "7 steady," which is supposed to be 6:15-6:30 pace. We meant to do 6:30 or 6:40, but went out fast and stayed fast, like 6:20ish pace... Final time was 43:58 for 7, I'm told that's 6:17 pace. It was rough, but aerobic. Hard towards the end, but not impossible or race pace. Felt like a tempo I guess. We were very even apparently, only had a fast mile towards the start and picked it up the last mile.

Tomorrow on his schedule is easy 5. I'll probably add on a few more there. The rest of the week is easy runs.

Comments
From wheaton on Wed, May 19, 2010 at 00:44:44 from 68.1.178.103

whats that training plan? I say summer of malmo all the way -- basically means you do doubles every possible day with one tempo run a week. He suggests doing the tempo run in a group on a track starting at a pace everybody can manage and slowly picking it up dropping people who can then rest for a lap then jump back in. But that requires people which are hard to come by. But if your friend is doing this plan and your schedule allows you might do well with that training. Always easier to stay on it with someone else there to keep you honest.

From wheaton on Wed, May 19, 2010 at 14:29:39 from 68.1.178.103

Not bad. But too fast in my opinion. You cant recover from that on a daily basis.

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