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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
61.7013.202.500.0077.40
Hoka Arahi Miles: 26.90Hoka Clifton 5 Miles: 8.00Brooks Adrenaline - Navy Miles: 18.10Saucony Kinvara 6 - White Miles: 8.10Blue Clifton 4 Miles: 14.30
Weight: 155.60
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.300.000.000.008.30

8.3 miles slow and feeling sick from popcorn and a b=gallon of vanilla coke last night at Avengers.  Grandview loop plus Sawmill.  Decent morning other than the gut issues.  

Kids birthday party today - the wife got a bouncy house apparently.  

Hoka Arahi Miles: 8.30
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.050.000.000.0014.05

Easy 6 miles home from kids school in am.  Happy Birthday to our little 6 year old today.  9 min pace

Easy 8 miles home from kids school in pm. 73 min.

Hoka Arahi Miles: 6.05Hoka Clifton 5 Miles: 8.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.250.000.000.006.25

easy 20 min in am - 2.1 miles

easy 4.15 miles in pm.

300 mile month... somehow. 

Hoka Arahi Miles: 4.15Brooks Adrenaline - Navy Miles: 2.10
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.600.002.500.0014.10

easy 4 miles - am.  Music helps with the motivation

Lunch failed wrokout in the wind.  4x800 TH: Very windy warmup over to Trinity track.  did some strides and pickups and was feeling pretty good.  Gave it go to try 6-8x800m.  Heart rate and effort level spiking at 6:30 pace.  Not good.  Barely made it a nd recovered enough to get the jog back to work.  In pretty poor condition right now.  It might take every bit of the summer to get back in to the range of previous fitness.   

Saucony Kinvara 6 - White Miles: 8.10Brooks Adrenaline - Navy Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

AM: gear test of new Ultimate Direction vest.  3.8 mi. jog over to Columbus Unit from house.

AM2: run on the canal b4 Central Office meeting. 3.2 miles

AM3: run on canal for lunch.  5 miles in the rain - 43 min.

Brooks Adrenaline - Navy Miles: 12.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.400.000.000.008.40

 miles easy at work and decided to leave early and hit some trails in the nice weather.

Grandview Trail loop was muddy and sloppy.  6.4 miles - about 80 minutes

Hoka Arahi Miles: 8.40
Weight: 0.00
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Race: Indy 500 Fest Half (13.109 Miles) 01:25:15, Place overall: 184, Place in age division: 18
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.1013.200.000.0014.30

Promising progress toward recovering fintess levels! 

Bandit racing of Indy half in the rain.  Game time decision to make the drive up to the City from Columbus this morning.  There was supposed to be an I-65 hard closure starting Friday night, but, it got delayed due to the rainy weather.  

Made it to the start line in time to almost get in position within corrals to not be slowed down by the crowd, but, not quite.  Mile 1 was 6:40, and required a bit of effort to weave in and out of the crowd.  Actually got settled pretty well in to 6:15-6:25 pace for most of the splits.  Encouraging step forward in fitnedss and progress.  In my rush, I forgot to wear the watch, and the phone with Strava record app. didn't work out.  It apparently stopped recording somewhere around the Racecar track.  I got in another high five at the racetrack finish line from Frank Shorter :) 

Judging by the folks I finished around, and the percieved effort, a 1:25 was pretty close to accurate for actual finishing time.  A long way to go, but, progress to be certain.  Would have been nice to see splits in the end - I felt like it was a pretty good effort.  Saw some familiar faces, surprisingly.  Lisa S., Kevin and Gary, and even Perez.  In all that crowd, its funny taht I saw that many ppl. that I knew.  

Blue Clifton 4 Miles: 14.30
Weight: 155.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
61.7013.202.500.0077.40
Hoka Arahi Miles: 26.90Hoka Clifton 5 Miles: 8.00Brooks Adrenaline - Navy Miles: 18.10Saucony Kinvara 6 - White Miles: 8.10Blue Clifton 4 Miles: 14.30
Weight: 155.60
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