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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
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Yesterday I had a 6 am flight out of Seattle so had to get up very early to get to the airport and when I got home we went straight to my neice's wedding rehearsal (my daughter's are in the wedding).  So missed my run yesterday.  Seems like the travel is costing me about 1 day a week of training.  Hopefully, it will get more manageable.

Beautiful morning (55, light wind).  I planned on doing a tempo run this morning.  I have my in-laws coming in town for the wedding so have a busy day planned or I might have did a long run.  Anyway, ran 4 miles easy to get warmed up then ran a 4 mile tempo with 1 mile cool down.  The goal was to run around 6:45 for the tempo miles.  Here are the splits for the tempo:

1st - 6:52

2nd - 6:44

3rd - 6:40

4th - 6:32

I didn't feel great this morning so I wasn't sure how this was going to turn out.  The first mile of the tempo was probably the worst.  I just didn't feel like I could get going.  The 3rd and 4th were my best ones as I felt like I was gettting into a groove.  Overall pretty good run.

66:04 (7:20 avg)

Comments
From Robert on Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 22:05:46 from 71.32.163.35

Great tempo run. What are your race plans for the rest of the year?

From JimF on Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 19:32:32 from 68.58.92.129

Thanks! I am going to run some 10ks this summer to try to run a faster time before I get too old for PR. Ha! Then going to run another marathon in the fall.

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