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Location:

San Antonio,TX,

Member Since:

Dec 13, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

5K PR - 18:01 - Nov '14

10K PR - 38:37 (workout) - Oct '14

Half-marathon - 1:22:43 - Jan '14

Marathon - 2:58:43 in Boston! - Apr '13

50 mile - 7:49:30 (2nd) - Nov '15

Short-Term Running Goals:

- Balance

- Run more trails, volunteer, more social running, run with a team

- Race a lot more.  learn.

Race results / possible schedule:

Apr 2 - Hells Hills 25k trail - 4th

Apr 9 - Toughest 'n Texas 20-mile Trail - 2nd

May 7 - Paleface - Trail Marathon - 3rd

May 29 - American Hero road 25k - 2nd

Jun 25 - Pedernales Falls 30k nighttime Trail - 5th (sick)

Jul 16 - Muleshoe Bend 30k nighttime Trail - 3rd

Jul 23-24 - Fossil Valley 9-hour nighttime Trail - 2nd

Aug 6 - Colorado Bend 30k nighttime Trail - 4th

Aug 27 - Reveille Peak 30k nighttime Trail (entered)

Sep 10 - Franklin Mountains 50k (entered - not all-out effort...I hope)

Sep 17 - Lighthouse Hill 20-mile trail (entered)

Sep 24 - J&J 50 mile trail

Long-Term Running Goals:

Compete in a few more ultras without going off course (again)

Sub-18 in a 5k

One.  Good.  Marathon.

Personal:

I started running at age 30, in late 2009.  I have 2 daughters (10 and 8 yrs old).

  

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony A5 Lifetime Miles: 1054.70
Kinvara 2 - Gray/red Lifetime Miles: 1551.08
Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Lifetime Miles: 1244.23
1160s Lifetime Miles: 888.70
Saucony A5 Red Lifetime Miles: 565.10
Saucony A6 - Yellow Lifetime Miles: 214.00
Saucony A6 - Red/blue Lifetime Miles: 61.50
NB MT101 Trail Lifetime Miles: 302.00
Fastwitch 6 Red #1 Lifetime Miles: 286.50
Fastwitch 6 Red #2 Lifetime Miles: 267.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
56.603.5060.10
1160s Miles: 26.10Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 22.00Saucony A4 Miles: 12.00
Weight: 0.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

90F.  8:36 AP.  5 miles in the afternoon sun.  That was dumb...I almost stopped and walked toward the end.  Definitely a terrible runner in the heat.

1160s Miles: 5.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(2)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.502.5012.00

68F, 93%.  7:22 AP.  Still in the 60's this morning, so I ran out 4 miles easy, then planned on doing 2 min on / 1 min off the whole way back.  The effort was about right - didn't kill myself but definitely working hard.  Sadly, the paces were mostly around my old LT runs, 6:10-ish, although it was mostly a gentle uphill on the way back.  The last mile or so, I must have ended up on everyone's favorite shortcut to Fort Polk.  It had a lot of traffic and there was no shoulder, just tall grass that was awkwardly sloped.  So I kind of gave up after having to deal with that for a few minutes.  Still got in 15+ minutes of harder-effort running.

PM:  4 more on the hotel TM, 7mph, with varying inclines to make it more like actual running.

Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 8.001160s Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(3)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.701.008.70

AM:  69F, 93%.  4.5 @ 8:30's or 8:40s, I think.  Just recovery today, I'll go a little longer tomorrow.

PM:  4.2 on the hotel TM.  This time I changed the speed every quarter mile, kind of all over the place (7.0 to 10.5), but it made the run go faster and was slightly less boring.

1160s Miles: 8.70
Weight: 0.00
Comments(5)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.400.004.40

AM:  74F, 91%.  4.4 @ 8:18 AP.  More recovery today.  Why do today what you can put off 'til tomorrow?  Or something like that.  I just figured since I'm doing more miles this week, I'd take it easy again.  On a possibly related note, my hotel is in a really terrible spot for running.

What is that "in" thing at the bottom of all the entries? 

1160s Miles: 4.40
Weight: 0.00
Comments(6)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.000.0010.00

73F, 93%.  8:14 AP.  Not feeling it...

Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(3)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.000.008.00

AM - easy 4

PM - easy 4 on the TM.  Wow, forgot to even enter my AM run until now.  That's how you can tell I'm not really into running right now.  But I think the fire will come back when there are races to train for.

Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 4.001160s Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(3)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
12.000.0012.00

74F, 95%.  7:33 AP.  Felt ok.  There's a pretty nice road west of the hotel that is secluded and has a canopy of tall trees covering it.  Such a thing does not exist in San Antonio, but in this part of the country the pine trees are plentiful.

I was kinda tired by the end, but did what I could.  Still going through the motions at this point, but maybe if I stay in some kind of shape (round is a shape) I can get it back this fall.  Did I mention I'm fat?  I gotta be at least 10 lbs heavy if not more.  If I wasn't shameless, I'd run with a shirt on to hide my dunlap syndrome.  But c'mon, it's hot out there...

Saucony A4 Miles: 12.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(2)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
56.603.5060.10
1160s Miles: 26.10Kinvara 3 - Gray/red Miles: 22.00Saucony A4 Miles: 12.00
Weight: 0.00
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