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Valentimes 10k

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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

Sat, Feb 13, 2016

Race: Valentimes 10k (6.214 Miles) 00:36:54, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
1.82	0.00	6.18	0.00	8.00

AM 10k Series Race in Seymour. 5 degress, with windchill (or whatever "real feel" means) below zero. Resigned to slower goal time due to temp. and recent training results vs. percieved efforts. 5:45 first mile was too hard, as suspected, but, kept the rest right around 6:00. not much to say, since I'm pretty dissappointed with current fitness level. 36:54 - 10k for a lonesome 2nd place

Brooks Ravenna 7 Miles: 8.00

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Jason D on Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 23:59:10 from 68.80.27.222

There's definitely a threshold for cold weather running versus performance. 5 degrees is well below that.

Any thoughts on what to do going forward? My guess is that mileage is down somewhat. I found last year training in the winter that even though I was going my doubles I didn't have consistent longer runs because I was constrained by the 60 minute cutoff on the treadmill. My race times suffered even though I hit workouts that are typically indicator workouts. Could be a number of factors, of course. You might just need a few races to sort things out.

From joebell1981 on Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 06:12:59 from 99.39.133.24

Thanks, Jason. You hit the nail on the head, I think. Lower mileage, consisting of too much TM, with a lot of the 45-60 min. variety of workouts.

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