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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
83.241.006.752.7593.74
14 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 14 - Blue Miles: 37.3815 - Brooks Glycerin 11 - Blue Miles: 39.8612 - Saucony Kinvara 4 - Neon Miles: 16.50
Weight: 152.07
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.160.000.000.006.16

Spent the day doing some long overdue work around the house - pathcing holes, digging the weeds, etc... nursing this sunburn from yesterday too.

Today, my legs felt like I had run 3 faster races yesterday, 2 weeks after a 50 miler preceded by a hard racing month.  6.16 miles shuffling at 8:30 pace.  Core and leg strength stuff for anbout 10 minutes.  Been eating alot.  I have 10 pounds to lose over the summer.

 

14 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 14 - Blue Miles: 6.16
Weight: 154.00
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20.000.000.000.0020.00

Happy Memorial Day.  Special thanks to all who have sacrificed and continue to do so. 

Off work today - AM long run.  One of my favorites - the Grandview course.  House to Grandview Lake, 7 mile loop around the lake, and back home.  kept it nice and controlled on a sore left groin/hip/quad.  Felt decent and even the whole way except for a little bit of pain on the downhills.  Made sure to not make the same mistake as last couple runs of this route - took a gel and a water bottle with me.  Started off at about 60 degrees and was probably 70 and sunny when I got done.  20 miles - 2:37:17. 
 

15 - Brooks Glycerin 11 - Blue Miles: 20.00
Weight: 152.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.471.000.750.005.22

Feeling a little under the weather since yesterday's long run when I thought I might have had some allergy problems.  The usually itchy eyes and runny nose, but maybe acold to boot?  I don't know - either way, I could barely keep up with today's workout.  Called it quits after 2 reps of 400m @ 5k, 800m at MP.  Pretty hot, and a lot of people out there today.  I even sounded a lilttle congested when talking.

Jogged around the track the rest of the workout. 

5.22 miles - 39:25 total

14 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 14 - Blue Miles: 5.22
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
19.300.000.000.0019.30

run home from work - Seymour to Columbus.  Took half a day off to burn some accrued personal time that will turn into dreaded sick time PTO.  pretty warm - about 80 degrees.  I was feeling pretty good at the begininng of the run and throughout the day after feeling pretty crappy yesterday.  Kept it around 8min./mile most of the way. struggled at the end when I ran out of water (carrying a water bottle) and my watch died on me.  Nice enjoyable run until that point. 

Now, I think I started over on recovering from this stupid cold/allergy stuff... 

19.3 mi. - 2:38

14 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 14 - Blue Miles: 19.30
Weight: 150.20
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19.860.000.000.0019.86

AM - long run back in to work from the house - left the house shortly before 5 am hoping to get to work at 7:30a.  Enjoyable run, since it was about 20 degrees cooler than yesterdays run home.  First 1.5 hours in the dark and it was little foggy.  Had the headlamp (uncomfortably) on over my manky old hat.  It was a relief totake that off.  Carried a water bottle and a couple of gels, which I was extremely thankful for near the end of the run.  I was rewarded this morning with a beautiful morning, weather wise and very little traffic for most of the run.  I did have to make a #2 pit stop (under a local steel grated bridge) :).  No attacking dogs or mean vehicles today, surprisingly.

Again, kept it around 8 min / mile.  Feeling pretty decent compared to yesterday and considering that my volume is getting up there in a hurry with these runs.

15 - Brooks Glycerin 11 - Blue Miles: 19.86
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.700.000.000.006.70

AM: easy 3 miles before work - about 8:45/mile.

pm easy 30 mi utes- hot and sunny at 4pm

14 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 14 - Blue Miles: 6.70
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7.750.006.002.7516.50

Quaff is doing a 24 hour relay to try and raise money for cancer.  Each group of 5-6 people is to run 3 x 2 hour sessions spread out over 24 hours. Our goal for the 24 hours is to run 240 miles total.  At 6min./mile average, we all keep a close watch on the capabilities of each of our groups and run intervals accordingly.

Our first session: 6AM-8AM: wonderful weather - the sunrising to start our session was awesome.  About 55 degrees and nice and low humidity.

This first one essentially a track session with full recoveries.  Our group of 5 people wound up doing 3x1mi. and 2x800m each within our first 2 hour window.  We have 2 more 2 hour sessions of somehting like this today - one at 2pm and one at 10pm.  We turned in to pretty solid efforts.  Its hard to resist going a little faster with alot of people around watching, too :)

3x1mi. - 5:30, 5:21, 5:17 with full recoveries (we're talking like 20 minute recoveries, while 4 other people run 1 mile), and then we decided to finish up the 2 hours with 800s:

2x800m - 2:25, 2:26

A little harder effort to maintain pace on the 800s than I would've liked, but, hey there were alot of people out there watching...

8.91 mi. total (between mini WUs and cooldowns) - 57:55

more to come at 2pm

Second Set: 2pm-4pm.  85 degrees and sunny - much more difficult in the heat and on somewhat tired legs.  Group decided on 800s this time.  Started off hitting the first couple hard - somebody offered some racing flats that were super light and my size for free, so had to try to run fast wearing them.  First 2 x 800s were 2:26, 2:28... paid the price - the rest hurt - 6x800s: 2:54, 47, 45, 45, 47, 47.  And then somebody got the bright idea of finishing up with a 400m.  Little kids walking around the track (a bunch of people there for other Relay for Life events- walking and kids' stuff)  liked to try and race us (for about 100m)  They actually helped along - 64 for last 400m.  That hurt. 

7.59 miles total - about 53 min.

1 more 2 hour session tonight from 10pm to midnight to finish out the 24 hours.  Wow - I pulled out all the tricks to try and convince my legs that they could move fast enough for some 1mi./800 intervals again.  Could barely hobble around the track once during a WU jog.  We called in some alternates and I enjoyed the conclusion of the 24 hours of running with pizza, coffee, and snacks.  Hats off to my group and about 10 other guys who filled in randomly on top of their group assignments.  268.5 miles total for the 24 hours!! 

The real story was that of all the cancer survivors and families of cancer victims.  One of the girls in my group recently lost her mom to cancer - the relay happened to fall on the day of her mother's birthday also.  On her last lap of her last rep, the DJ (guy running the loud speaker) sent out the dedication song to her mother... and, as she was coming down the home stretch and passed off the baton to the next runner, she broke down in tears.  As her husband consoled her and they held each other by the fence outside of lane 8, the emotion of the moment and the event really hit home with me. 

12 - Saucony Kinvara 4 - Neon Miles: 16.50
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
83.241.006.752.7593.74
14 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 14 - Blue Miles: 37.3815 - Brooks Glycerin 11 - Blue Miles: 39.8612 - Saucony Kinvara 4 - Neon Miles: 16.50
Weight: 152.07
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