Mike's Marathon Training Blog

June 2008

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Location:

San Antonio,TX,USA

Member Since:

Feb 26, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

2008 Ragnar Relay Del Sol, 1st Public Service Male Team, Marathon PR 2:58:39, PR Half Marathon 1:25:47, 10K PR 40:04, PR 5K 17:26  PR mile 4:57 Lots of races all over the world!

Short-Term Running Goals:

1. Qualify for Boston 2. Complete the Run for the Red in under 3:00 3. Run a 1:20 Half Marathon 4. Run a 2:49:59 or better at the Ridge to Bridge Marathon, Jonas Springs, NC on Oct 22, 2011. Run RocknRoll San Antonio Marathon Nov 13, 2011.

Long-Term Running Goals:

1. Run hard, have fun, improve myself and help improve others.

2.  Get faster and stay healthy!

Personal:

Married with 3 children, 1 dog and 1 snake.  Living in San Antonio, TX. Active Air Force Reserve Instructor.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
62.2059.05121.25
Night Sleep Time: 150.50Nap Time: 3.75Total Sleep Time: 154.25
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8.000.008.00

8 miles easy,  1 at 7:19 the rest between 6:43 and 6:55.  Final avg was 6:55 for 8 miles.  Felt great.  Good things happening here at work too!

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
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1.005.006.00

6 miles,

7:01, 6:41, 6:39, 6:31, 6:28, 6:29

Felt great! 

Congrats and Good job to the BPR runners who finished the SD Rock n Roll yesterday!!!

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.25Total Sleep Time: 7.25
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4.000.004.00

HILL WORK OUT

4 miles of "hills" on the treadmill.

easy 7:40 ish pace overall, on setting 10 of 20 on the hill difficulty. Not too bad, it got up to 7.8 incline

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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1.005.006.00

6 miles, avg of 6:40/mile

 

I figured out that I have to resubmit my blog entry after the day changes in the USA to get my mileage correct. I am guessing that its to prevent people from loggoing miles before they can really run them??  But being 7-10 hrs ahead of the US messes me up...

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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6 Miles, half Tempo pace 6:29 avg overall

6:44, 6:10, 6:04, 6:14, 6:55, 6:45

Felt good, tough to get in thouse fast miles consistently, but it will come with time.  I need to build my base to get my speed up for longer miles.

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.50Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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1.005.206.20

I found another road to run yesterday, so I explored it today.  It was .45 long, so I can get an extra .9 out of it, and if I hit it on the way out and back on my run I can get an extra 1.8, so its not bad at all.

6.2 miles, 6:55 avg

7:13, 6:51, 6:47, 6:48, 6:54, 6:53

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
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6.000.006.00

Well well well, todays weather is not very nice.  We are having a Shamal (Big Dust Storm) and it is just brown outside. You can see maybe 200 meters at times. Winds are sustainde around 20 knots.

Obviously all the dust in the air is not good for running so I opted to run to the big Army gym, 1 mile down the road, did 4 miles on setting 11 on the treadmill and then 1 mile home.  The incline got up to 8.5 today and I stayed at 8 or 8.1 miles per hour. 

Felt good, but I sweated more than I have in a long time.  The entire front of my shirt is soaked.  Of course wearing AF PT gear doesn't help since its not moisture wicking fabric.

 

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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6 miles, then a quick launch for work... Run was good, flight was eeeehhh not so good.

Lots of wind on the way back in.  The Shamal is still around but not as bad.

Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50
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2.004.006.00

The Storm is back and its worse!  About 100 meters of visibillity and winds up to 40 knots.

I went for another hill workout, 1 mile to th Army Gym, 4 miles at 7:30 on setting 12, 1 mile home.

Yesterday was a day off to relax due to some crap that happened on Monday.

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
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6.000.006.00

6 Easy miles, 7:18 pace average.  It was dry and dustya nd I got a mild nose bleed  miles in. :(

 

 

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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3.000.003.00

3 miles around 7 min avg Woke up late...will try to hit the treadmil later

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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8.850.008.85

Easy 8.85 with an old friend that I havent seen in about 3 years.

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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1.005.856.85

6.85 total

1 mile warmup at 7:09 followed by a comfortable paced run.

Miles were:  6:44, 6:41, 6:43, 6:43, 6:44, 5:39(6:38 pace for last .85) 

Felt great, but I did have a little bit of a weird feeling in my left ankle for the first mile or so.

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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3.000.003.00

3 hill miles on the treadmill.  The weather was horrible today, less than 100 meter visibility. 

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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0.007.507.50

7.5 miles at a comfy pace, 6:43 overall average

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
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6.100.006.10

6.1 miles at about a 7:10 avg.  I did not really feel like getting up this AM, but I did and I am glad.

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
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8.250.008.25

8.25 Easy Miles.  I am switching from day to night shift over here so I slept in this AM to help me stay up later tonight.  I ran at night and it was still hot!  Around 100 degrees still.  I was ok running, but switching to a night run after eating all day, flying for an hour or so and sitting on alert in the heat in the afternoon messed with me physiologically. 

I had to stop twice for the bathroom, the second time was not good and I decided to head back in and cut my planned run .75 miles short. Not bad, but I was looking for my longest run here yet.

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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No running today, but I hit the gym and did, push ups, Lat pulldowns and situps.  Felt good, but it was extrememly hot in there.  I was cooler outside at 110 degrees.

Night Sleep Time: 9.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00
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2.004.506.50

Long night with transitioning to night shift and on top of it we flew 4.3 hours for literally nothing (operation cancelled).  Luckily I got a 2 hour nap when we returned from our flight.  I was woken up to retrive my gear at the end of our Alert Duty period and decided to skip a morning run and opted to go to bed! 

I woke up feeling good and hit the treadmill for 6.5 miles on random.  I avg'd around 6:45/mile.  I plan to run in the morning, outside if I am back and its not too hot, otherwise I might stick with the pre-work treadmill run.

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 2.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00
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0.003.003.00

3 quick miles.  I am feeling better and getting on track with the night schedule here.  I hope to run in the morning today!

Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00
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1.001.002.00

Still adjusting to Nights, yesterday I had a stomach virus and I am still messed up with sleep.  I am hoping to finally sleep well today.  I stayed up all night plus I ran a bit with some of hte guys when we got done work at 5am.  We went and ran over and back 5 times on a Hardened Aircraft Shelter (HAS).  I have no clue what the distance was, but it was about 20 minutes total, so I posted 2 miles.

Im kind of lacking in motivation, I miss my running group and competition...

 

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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I am away from my deployed base, to another one.  I am somewhat settled and I got to run this AM and got in 6 miles.  I will run when done work in the AM also, but I think more traveling is in order :(  I gotta get back in gear, but a few extra rest days were kind of nice.

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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62.2059.05121.25
Night Sleep Time: 150.50Nap Time: 3.75Total Sleep Time: 154.25
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