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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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Thu, Jun 10, 2010
Total Distance
8.00

wow so i just typed a longass thing about two modes of nonrace running and then comand+left key went back on the browser. bullshit. anyway mode 1: sleeping. mode 2: awake. people try to stay in their comfort zone on workouts, and just underperform, they sleep. we slept today. also we agreed that our easy runs, regardless how good we think we feel or how fast we think we can go, are not recovery runs, like they should be. so we are no longer bringing a watch on the runs, going to go by the feeling, and save it for the workouts, where we will really put in the effort. we thought we would be able to cruise through 3 miles at 5:40 and just flopped.

2.5 warmup, 3 tempo, 2.5 cooldown

17:23 overall, not bad, not good enough though. 5:49, 5:51, 5:41. we were really surprised that the second mile was still slow, but we must have still been asleep. mile 3 we thought would be like 5:30, but it was just what we were supposed to do all along. we went out the first half at 2:52, about right, a little slow, feeling good. but from there we didn't turn it on at all to fix the pace, just kept striding. anyway, learning experience.

Comments
From wheaton on Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 21:45:02 from 68.1.178.103

Hey, thats a good workout. A 3 mile tempo is threshold pace, not VO2max. Using your recent 5k your threshold should be 5:58 and using your mile PR it should be something like 5:50. You outperformed that. It would have made a sub 18 5k if you continued.

Of course I am glad that you made jake see sense about recovery runs. What distance does he run anyway? Does he run at his college? If so his coach is an idiot. Where does he go? And what are his PR's?

From wheaton on Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 00:20:24 from 68.1.178.103

Also you can't expect to improve 4 sec per mile for the same workout in 2 weeks while increasing load and intensity and racing 3 days previously. Training isn't so straight forward. I wish it were. You have to take it as it comes and be happy and surprised when it does. You can't expect anything.

From Henry on Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:58:53 from 99.141.74.126

okkkk lol. agreed, recovery should be better now. he does 5ks and 8ks i think. he was red-shirting this year, but was training with the team, kind of a silly situation, but he'll be officially on the roster this year. his 5k PR last year, before getting a hernia, was 16:20 and it sounds like he was on his way down. he goes to Quinnipiac, in Connecticut.

From wheaton on Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 09:04:26 from 68.1.178.103

Just because he is fast doesn't mean he is training correctly. Its the survival of the fittest type of training. If you take a bunch of guys and train them super hard, most will get injured or not improve due to overtraining, but a few will improve just because they started out with more fitness. Had the training been different one of those other guys might have surpassed them all (at least in theory) because his system had more potential but started out behind.

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