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Location:

New Palestine,IN,USA

Member Since:

Oct 23, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

5k - 18:59 (3/09)
4M - 25:06 (9/09)
10k - 41:01 (11/07)

Half - 1:25:58 (11/09)

Marathon - 3:06:33 (12/09)

Short-Term Running Goals:

1:25 for the half marathon
Sub 39:00 for the 10k.
3:07 marathon
18:30 5k

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Long-Term Running Goals:

Break 3:00 for the marathon.

Personal:

Married, two daughters (18 and 15).  Masters runner trying to get competitive in my age group.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Ride 5 (Red) Lifetime Miles: 372.70
ASICS Excel 33 Lifetime Miles: 152.00
Saucony Ride 7 Lifetime Miles: 249.00
ASICS DS Trainer Lifetime Miles: 212.20
Asics Cumulus 16 Lifetime Miles: 241.30
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.007.000.0017.00

Still in DC and it was a cool morning (27 and windy).  Today I wanted to do a tempo run and since I didn't have a measured course to run I found a local track to run the tempo on.  I did a 2 mile warm up then jumped into the tempo run.  I planned on doing 7 miles at around 7:00 pace.  This  is slower than my normal tempo pace but wanted to run a longer tempo.  The first mile I was still cold and a little stiff so took me a little while to get going.  After this I felt good and the tempo felt pretty comfortable.  I pushed the last  couple of miles so felt the effort of that.  Here are the splits for the tempo:

1st - 6:57

2nd - 6:56

3rd - 6:54

4th - 6:52

5th - 6:56

6th - 6:47

7th - 6:42

 Glad to get this  run in while I was on travel.  I would like to do another easy run this afternoon but will see if the schedule will allow it.

 74:15

 PM::  I was able to squezze in another run after meetings and before a dinner meeting.  It was still cool this afternoon (36) and still windy.  I did an easy run and felt good after this mornings tempo run.  I have noticed recently that my easy runs are getting a little bit faster than a month or so ago which feels good.

 54:27

Saucony Ride Miles: 17.00
Comments
From rockness18 on Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 19:34:56

Jim, nice running today. Your workouts are noticably faster. Keep up the good work!

From will on Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 22:49:15

You are getting fitter and faster, those are some great mile times for this time of year. Keep the focus!

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