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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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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
331.6341.0010.300.00382.93
Saucony Peregrine - Black Miles: 58.78Blue Triumphs Miles: 200.30Saucony Ride 9 - Blue Miles: 66.75Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 47.30
Weight: 150.23
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
21.100.000.000.0021.10

AM - Trail run with Quaff guys.  Ran solo for 90 minutes B4 everybody arrived at 8a.  Definitely picked up pace and put in some good efforts with some faster guys leading.  Definitely got dropped a couple of times.  21.1 miles - 3:26:19.  1780 ft. climbing

Saucony Peregrine - Black Miles: 21.10
Weight: 149.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.300.000.000.0011.30

Slow miles after beatdown on the trails yesterday.  went to gym, used the bathroom, got on TM, and got back off to run outside.  11.3 miles - 1:52.  2 Bathroom stops, with one emergency in the park.

Blue Triumphs Miles: 11.30
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.300.000.000.005.30

Made the trip down to Lexington Sunday for nephews BDay on Sunday and to visit with my mom on Mon., Tues., and to run in Bluegrass 10k downtown.  5.3 easy AM miles around my moms place out by Fayette Mall.  A nice park with a paved loop about 1 mi. away.  Shilito PArk brought back some memories. 

Saucony Ride 9 - Blue Miles: 5.30
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Race: Bluegrass 10k (6.214 Miles) 00:37:44, Place overall: 21, Place in age division: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.006.200.0014.20

7:30 am race, met Nathan and his awesome run group at Triangle Park.  Those awesome guys gave me a shirt and picked my packet!  "Good Times" indeed!  Great to run with them and chat with them.

Race itself was humid and an absolute struggle to hang on to ~6min. pace.  Really not in any kind of shape for 5k's and 10k's honestly.  stuck with it and forced a couple of sub-6 miles on aided sections.  37:44 for 21st place was good for today, given current fitness.

Saucony Ride 9 - Blue Miles: 14.20
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.400.000.000.006.40

easy lunch run - 5.5 miles- 46:12

walk at work

Blue Triumphs Miles: 6.40
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

AM run with NAthan around the neighborhood before work.   about 5 miles

walk at work

Blue Triumphs Miles: 6.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.900.000.000.001.90

walks at work

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Race: Pershing Fire 5k (3.107 Miles) 00:18:34, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.200.003.100.006.30

AM series race in Freetown, IN (aka - BF).  Arrived to lone gas station in town to discover no ATM or bathroom.  luckily, Danny paid for the race entry .

Warmed up jogging and some strides.  Tractors literally backed out into the road and nearly ran over all of us close to the start line after the race started.  Pretty sure the A-holes intentionally did this...

Anyway, the race was okay.  Humidity off the charts, and probably carrying a couple pounds of the poor diet over the last week around with me.  5:50, 6:00, and a horrible 6:20 split on a slightly uphill last mile.  3rd place finish in 18:34. 

Jogged a cool down after

Blue Triumphs Miles: 6.30
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
37.100.000.000.0037.10

LR - started at 7:30a, in some mild temp., but sky-high humidity.  Road running on PplTrail.  Planned out and back to 450N brewery on pvmt. / county roads, turned sour around 25 miles.  Ran out of tailwind laced drink in w2 handhelds and only had water.  That probably had something to do with it.  Lesson learned on that one.  Carry more calories.  Cut the distance a bit short of the planned 40 mile goal and walk jogged final ~10 miles.  37.1 miles - 6:08:50.   

Blue Triumphs Miles: 37.10
Weight: 149.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.400.500.000.009.90

AM - TM walkjog after some foam rolling.  threw in some hill climbing for about 10 minutes.  4mi. - 39:40.  Feel okay after yesterday's LR failure. 

Lunch Run - easy run outside 4mi. - 40min.

walks at work

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 9.90
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.306.000.000.0012.30

walk at work.

PM - run around the neighborhood.  5mi. cutdown to AT, recovery jog, and 2 mi. AT.  11.3mi. total - 1:30:29

Blue Triumphs Miles: 12.30
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

easy lunch run - jog over to gym, 3 mi. on TM, Str/Cond.: Lunge, Squats, Core, and even some PUs, jog bak to work.  PM - easy 3.2 miles - 34 min.

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.200.000.000.002.20

walks at work. off running

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.007.000.000.0011.00

Lunch Run - 7AT - averaged around 7:00, but felt a lot more controlled than I had been.  True AT effort.  10 total - 1:14:34

walk at work

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 11.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
32.000.000.000.0032.00

AM - Hilly Road Long Run: Ran out Carr Hill, Youth Camp, and over to Grandview.  2x around Grandview and back CHill/YCamp.  2350 Elevation gain.  Cooler temps, so 2 handhelds with Tailwind and a couple of Huma gels were spot on nutrition/hydration.  Only 2 bathroom stops.  32 miles - 4:54:50

Blue Triumphs Miles: 32.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.500.000.000.0010.50

Slowness.  Feel pretty tired today.  10.5 miles - 1:40.  There was some walking

Blue Triumphs Miles: 10.50
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.400.000.000.007.40

Lunch run over to gym, Str/Cond.: Core, Lunge, Squats, PUs.  5.5 total - slow

walk at work

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 7.40
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.804.000.000.0011.80

Lunch Run: 4AT and... puke.  so hot and humid - puked up a donut from the morning.  10 mi. total - 1:18:55

walks at work

Blue Triumphs Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.902.000.000.0010.90

AM - TM Ctdwn - 4miles - 28:15.  Followed with Strength/Cond. - PUs, Core, Pullups (attempted), and Dips (attempted)

walk at work

PM - Run with Nathan - Half around Grand View and back.  6miles - 53:09

Blue Triumphs Miles: 10.90
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.453.500.000.006.95

Lunch run - 3.5 mi. AT - serious humidity still. Tough to stay at 6:45 pace for very long.  5 mi. total - 35:58

walks at work

Blue Triumphs Miles: 5.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.200.000.000.003.20

AM - TM with hills - walk/jog.  3.2 - 30 minutes.  20 minutes of Str/Cond. - Core, PU, Rolling

Blue Triumphs Miles: 3.20
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
19.700.000.000.0019.70

AM - LR on trails with Zane and Christian Wagner.  8am start, but, was already 82 degrees and ridiculous humidity.  Hung in there for about the first 2 hours and then really struggled to walk and jog up hills.  Hit some road to make it back to the car.  Draining, hard run.  We all suffered a whole lot.  Lots of water stops.  Horseflies feasted on me almost the entire time in woods.  Did bump in to several of the guys out on trails.  19.7 miles - 3:10ish

Saucony Peregrine - Black Miles: 19.70
Weight: 151.40
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
20.500.000.000.0020.50

AM - Long Run - Grand View out and back.  Stopped around 5 miles and went number 2 in the fine corn fields of CR "x".  Shortly there after, started in to the loop around Grand View as a storm rolled in.  Got poured on for about 30 minutes, and enjoyed watching the lightning not hit me.  20.5 miles pretty slow, but, much less suffering than esterday's humid hell. 

Blue Triumphs Miles: 20.50
Weight: 151.40
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.952.000.000.0011.95

am - gym TM run - 2 min. intrval builder: got up to 10.1 mph.  6mi. total - 46:18

walk at work

lunch run outside with the crew from work.  4 of us today!  5mi. total - 50min.

Saucony Ride 9 - Blue Miles: 10.95
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.956.001.000.009.95

walk at work.

Lunch run: 7AT Ctdn. - 7:11 down to 6:09.  9 total - 1:03:25

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 9.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.700.000.000.0013.70

AM run over to Columbus Unit. Easy 3.8 mi.  GPS not picking up.

Lunch run in Indy on the Canal.  Asunny warm day with lots of people out.  about 6miles. Again, watch not working too well. 

Run home from unit.  Easy 3.8 miles. 

Blue Triumphs Miles: 13.70
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.400.000.000.009.40

Easy 4 miles jog back to car at the unit. Early AM

walks at work

lunch workout: jog over to gym, TM hill builder 21 min. for 2.1 mi.  got up to a 15% incline.  followed with 20 minutes of planks, lunges, squats, and PUs.  Jog back to work. 

 

Blue Triumphs Miles: 9.40
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.700.000.000.005.70

Easy 4 miles on TM before work - walkjog with hills - 41 min.  Foam rolling after

walks at work

Blue Triumphs Miles: 5.70
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
31.200.000.000.0031.20

AM: Long Run - 31.2 miles in 4:40:06.  All Road, but a good amount of climbing Youth Camp out and back, with 2xGrand View Loops in the middle.   Left foot really hurting on the bottom.  Is this plantar fasci ?  1 stop in the woods, and ran out of water in the 2 handhelds carrying.  Very good weather - 60 degrees and breezy for most of the run.  Got a little warm at the end.  Fortunately, a hose was available at one of new neighborhoods under oncstruction. 

Saucony Ride 9 - Blue Miles: 31.20
Weight: 149.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.9810.000.000.0017.98

AM: AT Workout - 10AT Effort - Very tired from yesterday.  7:05 to 7:25 was AT range.  Pretty rough.  Ran out of water with 2 miles left, and it was pretty bad.  about 18 total - 2:30.  100 mile week (Mon.-Sun.)  Need some new shoes.  My left foot is hurting. 

Saucony Peregrine - Black Miles: 17.98
Weight: 149.20
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.100.000.000.005.10

AM - walking on TM, foam rolling

easy 3 mile jog in grass at lunch

walk at work.

Feeling okay after a tough weekend

Saucony Ride 9 - Blue Miles: 5.10
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
331.6341.0010.300.00382.93
Saucony Peregrine - Black Miles: 58.78Blue Triumphs Miles: 200.30Saucony Ride 9 - Blue Miles: 66.75Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 47.30
Weight: 150.23
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