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Location:

Columbus,IN,US

Member Since:

Jun 13, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

37 Marathons -- PR - 2:48:53 (Fall 2014)

A bunch of Half Marathons -- PR - 1:19:20 (Aug. 2015 - Converted)

10k - 36:30 Unaided // 35:25 (July 2014 - Aided)

5k - 17:28 (Aug. 2015)

1mi. - 4:58 (July 2014 - Track)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

10k and 5k's to get back into the swing of thing this summer

Sept. 21:  Mill Race Marathon - Under 3:00.  LET's GO!  

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

R2R2R in Grand Canyon  5/18/19 

Marathon < 2:45

Half Marathon < 1:18

Top 10 in Bluegrass 10k

5k < 17

Personal:

400m/800m competitively in track in high school.  Took 15 years off. Started running again in 2010.  Married to my beautiful wife, Tiffany, with 2 little boys, now 4 and 6.  I'm a civil engineer working for the Indiana DOT in Seymour, IN.   I live in a slightly larger town about 20 miles north - Columbus, IN.  Originally from Lexington, KY.

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Barefoot Running Lifetime Miles: 4.00
Swimming Lifetime Miles: 6.20
Elliptical Lifetime Miles: 81.50
Vilano Road Bike Lifetime Miles: 1216.95
Vilano Bike On Mag Trainer Lifetime Miles: 277.85
Red Peregrine Velcro Lifetime Miles: 314.94
Red Peregrine NO Velcro Lifetime Miles: 171.83
Saucony Kinvara 11 Lifetime Miles: 237.33
Blue Arahi 4.2 Lifetime Miles: 662.17
Nordictrack TM Lifetime Miles: 358.98
Hoka Bondi 7 Lifetime Miles: 325.22
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
304.5021.008.501.25335.25
CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 280.35Vilano Bike On Mag Trainer Miles: 10.00Saucony Iso 2 - Gray Miles: 13.00Saucony Kinvara 6 - White Miles: 7.20Clifton 4 Blue 1 Miles: 12.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.000.000.000.0014.00

Easy Mill Race out and back on my 39th Birthday.  Finished stronger than started for sure - 1:54 for 14 miles

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 14.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.354.000.000.0013.35

Hilly Half Marathon at lunch.  Out and Back on some Hilly Country Roads South of Seymour.  Finished strong.  13.35 - 1:37:19.

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 13.35
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.100.000.000.0013.10

Half Marathon - Out and Back to Mill RAce.  13.1 miles - 1:48:28

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 13.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.000.000.000.0014.00

Anohter Mill Race out and Back.  14 miles - 1:58:32 with 3 bathroom stops

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 14.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.100.000.000.0012.10

Easy 2.3 miles around neighborhood loop in am.

Easy 8.7mi. at lunch - 1:14:25

walk at work

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 11.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.600.000.000.0011.60

Mod 6.5 Ctdwn at lunch

Easy 5 in the evening right before sunset (5:15 pm)

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 11.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.000.000.000.0016.00

Easy HM for lunch - same hilly course.  1:42:15.

Walks at work

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 13.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.700.000.000.0013.70

easy hour at lunch - 7.6 miles

easy 30 minutes in PM - 4 miles

walks at work

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 11.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.000.000.000.0011.00

90 minutes at lunch - 11 miles

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 11.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
17.700.000.000.0017.70

Tough LR in the Rain.  Trip back to house down SR 11 was difficult in the muddy ditches, and puddles.  Windy and Rainy the whole run.  17.7 miles - 2:30:14

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 17.70
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.600.000.000.003.60

Easy does it.  Feeling the efects of the first big training period (~10days).  3.6 miles - 35 min.

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 3.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.000.000.000.0011.00

10 miles at lunch - 83 min.

walk at work

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 10.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.000.000.002.00

walks at work

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.600.000.000.002.60

walks at work

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.200.000.000.009.20

easy lunch run - 7.1 miles in an hour

walks at work

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 7.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.006.000.000.0014.00

1 mi. easy on TM - hurting the knee too much.  10 min.

Put the layers on and went outside - 13 miles w/ 6AT - about 7 minute pace for AT.  1:40:14

10 miles on the bike trainer - 30 minutes

Vilano Bike On Mag Trainer Miles: 10.00CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 14.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.200.000.000.0013.20

Icy roads and COOooOLD.  Bumped in to Tim Proctor - ran together and chatted for 6-7 miles.  13.2 miles - 1:44:42

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 13.20
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.000.000.000.0011.00

11 miles home from Sawyer's PreK.  Cold and scary on bridges - slow down cars!! :( 

89 minutes and glad to be done - felt a lot longer today. 

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 11.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.105.002.000.0013.10

7x1mi. at lunch - 6:45 down to 6:20.  12 miles total 1:28.  Pretty decent in 3 layers of clothes.  Fitness - yaah! 

walk at work

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 12.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 miles easy at lunch - 1:23:17.  Getting fit

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 10.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.252.001.501.2511.00

Crushed a lunch workout, other than the bathroom and GI distress. 

Ran over to Trinity HS track - one of those days when the WU is even strong.

11x400m at LT - stopped for emergency no. 2 after rep 7.  Angry GI the whole run.  

`10 miles total - 68:05

walk at work 

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 11.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 miles - easy pace at lunch.  80:55.  Got some new shoes at White River about 1 month ago, now, but forgot to start logging the miles in them. 

Its 45 degrees outside today.  Rain held off unitl after I was done.  Still struggling with the airways clearness - my nose is apparently a faucet. 
 

Saucony Iso 2 - Gray Miles: 10.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.000.000.000.0016.00

16 mile Long Run - 2:19:05.  Spittin wintry mix.  Needed the sweet tea + salt drink to get me through. 

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 16.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.800.000.000.0014.80

aimless easy jogging around neighborhoods in the am.  10k - 63 minutes

moderate effort in spurts in early PM - 8.6 miles - 1:06:35

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 14.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.200.000.000.0012.20

8.1 mile lunch run - 70 minutes

walk at work

3 mile jog in PM after work - 26:10

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 8.10Saucony Iso 2 - Gray Miles: 3.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.300.001.000.0010.30

walks at work. 

7.2 miles at lunch w/ pickups in straightaways on the Trinity track - 55:01

Need one good long run to really kick this Marathon training in to high gear. 

Saucony Kinvara 6 - White Miles: 7.20
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.704.004.000.0014.70

8x1mi. Cutdown w/ 0.25mi. jog recovery.  Out and Back to New Farmington (?)

Progressively faster in to TH zone: 6:35, 6:34, 6:24, 6:22, 6:39 (hills!), 6:27, 6:25, 6:15

This was much easier than the first couple attempts at this workout.  Some sort of fitness is coming back. 

walks at work

Clifton 4 Blue 1 Miles: 12.50
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

Easy 7 miles at lunch - 55:40

1 walk at work

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

Easy 12 miles at home - 1:43.  Took day off work sick.  Slept in a bit, and felt a little better in the afternoon for this run.  Kidsare sickly, also. 

CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 12.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
304.5021.008.501.25335.25
CLIFTON 4 Blue 2 Miles: 280.35Vilano Bike On Mag Trainer Miles: 10.00Saucony Iso 2 - Gray Miles: 13.00Saucony Kinvara 6 - White Miles: 7.20Clifton 4 Blue 1 Miles: 12.50
Weight: 0.00
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