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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
27.1710.0037.17
Night Sleep Time: 31.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 31.50
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.253.005.25

5 Mile Tempo Run

1 Mi WU @ 7:40, Tempo Miles 6:33, 6:35, 6:51 1 Mi CD @7:58, extra .25 mi to get home.

Felt pretty good, but was getting warm and tired on mile 4.  Additionally it was slightly uphill and direct into the wind, but the main reason for decrease was fatigue.

Overall I'm happy with it and continuing with my training aiming to break 2:50 in Oct. 

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.000.007.00

LRG 7 people today.  Ran together for first mile, then 4 of us stayed mostly together for the last 6 miles.  I felt really good and had one short burst down to sub 7 to catch up after checking on a runner.  Mostly stayed between 8:30 and 9:10 for the other miles.

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.553.255.80

ran to track

0515 800 WU Dynamic WU, Burpees and Situps Me plus 2

200Fast, 200 Easy, 400 F, 1 min rest 800, 2 min rest, 1200 3 min, 1600 

 0615 400 CD/WU (515 runners did 800) Me plus 4

Dynamic WU, 20/20 PU SU

5x 200Fast, 200 EZ

400 CD

Jogged home

 

Felt pretty good, a little tired on 615 workout, but was pretty consistent for long workout.  Times a little slower than I'd like, but still strong and steady so no complaints.

 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.100.003.10

Hill repeats with LRG. Warm up was a bit short, before repeats need to do longer first.  Good hill to run, but busy traffic area.

Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.253.756.00

0515 Run to Track Me plus 1

800 WU, Dynamic WU, 5 Burpees 20 Situps

Yasso 800's x 5 2:58, 2:57, 2:55, 2:55, 2:55 : 2 Minute Rests

800 CD

0615 Me plus 3

400 WU, Dynamic WU, 20 PU 20 SU

5 x 400 1:24, 1:24, 1:22, 1:22, 1:16

400 CD

Run home 6.0 Total Miles

Felt GREAT today, should have pushed more earlier.  Overall really good workouts.  Have had a blister on right pinky toe all week, has been mildyl painful but not hindering.

 

Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.020.0010.02

Zonked out last night! Had a rough finish to the work day yesterday and have to work a few hours today now instead of having a 4 day weekend.  

Met with Joe from LRG everyone else took the day off since we have an extra day off.  Joe wanted to run his first 7 miler, his previous high mileage was just over 6.  I ran with him for the first 8.5 miles, I got  in about .75 extra while he took a bathroom break.  He felt really good and went for a total of 8 miles.  He's not on here, but great job Joe!  I got in my last mile and half on my own and felt pretty good.  We had minimal wind this AM which is highly unusual here.  Hope its the calm before the storm!  Texas desperately needs some rain.

Overall I felt really comfortable.  The pace was much slower than my norm (about 10 min miles) but my last mile and a half were down to mid 8's to high 7's.

Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
27.1710.0037.17
Night Sleep Time: 31.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 31.50
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