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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
45.353.500.000.0048.85
14 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 14 - Blue Miles: 21.8515 - Brooks Glycerin 11 - Blue Miles: 10.0013 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 13 - Blue Miles: 16.00Elliptical Miles: 1.00
Weight: 154.20
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.850.000.000.0015.85

AM group run in BC State Park - 25 degrees and cold in the wind.  Several spots were icy.  This is a hilly course and was approximately moderate effort most of the way. 

15.85mi. - 2:00:48

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/416214023

 

14 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 14 - Blue Miles: 15.85
Weight: 154.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

PM treadmill at gym: 10mi. - 1:17:45.  

15 - Brooks Glycerin 11 - Blue Miles: 10.00
Weight: 154.40
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.503.500.000.006.00

PM treadmill run at the gym - WU slowly and felt every bit of the horrible diet I have been eating at the beginning of this run.  Took a little bit to get going and finally get my lungs and rest of body to decide to start working in unison...  A wierd felling.

WU for about 1.5 mi. and then started off a short 3.5mi. cutdown run.  9.2mph and increased 0.1 mph every 0.5 mi, - ended at 9.8 mph and felt pretty winded.  Not in great shape right now.

6mi. total - 43:40

14 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 14 - Blue Miles: 6.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

PM treadmill at gym: 4x4:00/0.5mi. hills - 6% at 7.5 mph.  messed around with incline and decline throughout at random points as well.

6 mi. total - 47:52

13 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 13 - Blue Miles: 6.00
Weight: 154.20
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.000.000.000.001.00

PM - XT @ gym - 1mi. jog, 5 min. rowing, 20 min. elliptical, light core work

Elliptical Miles: 1.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

AM: Beer Mile! this morning.  Four of the QuaffON! guys and I decided to give this silliness a try.  The challenge is this:  Chug a beer, run 0.25mi., Chug another beer, run 0.25mi., chug/run, chug/run.  This was not as fun as it sounds.  First of all, the weather was not ideal - 55 degrees, but pouring rain.  So, I decided to go for broke and ran shirtless as well...

After beer number one in about 30 seconds, I ran my quarter and was back at the start line for beer 2.  At this point I knew I would be a DNF.  Beer 1 was really hurting the stomach, already.  Beer 2 barely went down in about a minute, and I was a solid 2 minutes behind the leaders.  I dragged my butt another 0.25mi. and was in misery.  I got back to star for Beer 3 and could barely manage to sip any of it.  Fortunately, 2 of the other guys were in the same shape, and we agreed to call it quits.

Props to Dan and Tim for finishing.  Final time for them was 8 something.  World record for this is like 5 minutes...

ANyway, after that craziness, further craziness ensued - the rain here in Indiana had not quit since the night before, and alot of more remote roads and ditches were flooded.  The group went on a sobering 8-9 mile jog through the park in Brown County.  We mostly stuck to the very soggy trails, but ran in to a portion of the road part we were running where the water was rushing over it in a river like flow.  Fortunateley, the other guys are very familiar with the park, and waded a cross.  

We kept a pretty  good pace it felt like and this became a good adventurous hour or so of running.

Calling it 10 miles for the day, and about 80 minutes 
 

13 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 13 - Blue Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
45.353.500.000.0048.85
14 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 14 - Blue Miles: 21.8515 - Brooks Glycerin 11 - Blue Miles: 10.0013 - Brooks Adrenaline GTS 13 - Blue Miles: 16.00Elliptical Miles: 1.00
Weight: 154.20
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