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Location:

FL,United States

Member Since:

Feb 08, 2015

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Certified course PR's:

Mile: 4:28.0 (Florida, Jan 2020)

5K: 15:12 (FL, Jan. 2020)

10K: 31:44 (FL, Feb. 2020)

15K: 49:03 (FL, Feb. 2020)

1/2 Marathon: 1:10:34 (FL, Feb. 2020)

Marathon: 2:26:57 (WA, July 2019)

100k (63.7 miles, trail): 9:11:00 (FL, Jan. 2019)

Personal:

I started running in 2010 and have (mostly) kept it a habit ever since!  

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PM: 12 miles, with 3 miles worth of hills/bridges at effort.

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PM: 10 miles

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PM: 1.2 miles recovery 

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PM: 13.3 miles with a hard 3-miler in there at effort/goal marathon pace.

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AM: 12 miles

PM: 8.9 miles

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AM: 12 miles, 4.5 fast at effort.  Workout was 6x4:00, with 2:00 recoveries.

PM: 8 miles, 2.5 fast on hills with John.  5:20/mile pace on the hills.

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AM: 10.2 miles

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PM: 13 miles, 3 miles worth of hills at effort with Jeremy, Steve, & John.

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AM: 10 miles.  85 degrees, but I felt fantastic for some reason.

PM: 5.1 miles.

 

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AM: 7.5 miles 

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AM: So I woke up this morning before my alarm, turned it off, and skipped my long run.  Very unlike me.  Worth.  It.

PM: Decided to work all day, and then felt like going for a run around 3pm.  Incredibly humid and hot- 91 degrees, almost full humidity, but fortunately windy.  The run turned into my long run, which was both good and bad.  Good: Got a 20-miler out of they way as planned, and ran it quick enough to benefit from it.  Bad: Turns out, I need to plan out some water along my route a little better.  The fountains are either turned off or too far in between, so I had one water opportunity at mile 12-13, and that was it for water until I finished.  Good: Although I had no water/nutrition, this is a great sign for working towards ultra-marathon goals.  Not that I won't have water/nutrition, but I will have similar mental anguish along the run.  Bad: this is pretty foolish for Florida.  91 degrees, believe it or not, is hot for Florida.  It's usually a humidity issue down here, not a dual heat and humidity issue.  This run could have easily gone downhill.  Good: It didn't, and I blasted it solo on some nice gently rolling hills and clicked along the miles.  

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PM: 10 miles

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AM: Intervals on the road.  4x6:00 intervals with 3 minute recoveries, 11.3 total miles.   (12)

PM: 8x100 and then 6x800 intervals on the trail.  Pretty challenging on dirt and tight turns, but it did make them a lot more fun!  11.4 total miles.  Ran with Steve & John.

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PM: 10 miles. Is Florida literally the only state not in the 40s/50s or lower right now? What is wrong with this place? Kill me.

Late PM: 6 miles

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PM: 12.2 miles, 3.5 fast of hill intervals.  

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AM: 10.1 miles

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PM: 20 miles.

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AM: 20.1 miles.  Mental.  Fortitude.

 Two straight twenty-milers about 14 hours apart after a decent mileage week.  Unreal.  I'm surprised at myself, I didn't think I'd truly go through with it when I decided about it in my head a week ago.  Had one 2-minute stop for water and a gel, just like yesterday, however today, John and Jeremy joined for 11 miles of the journey which sincerely helped.


I am considering taking a day off tomorrow...

 

 

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PM: 5.5 miles.  I don't know, I just thought about how I wish I was running my marathon today even though it was rightfully cancelled and knew I had to at least go run a jaunt somewhere.  I'm disappointed.  The weather was ideal, my fitness was great, and it had all the makings of a pretty epic PR day.  

 

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AM: 10 miles

PM: 9.7 miles, 3 at effort, but certainly not fast!

Tomorrow will be an off day for real.

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Day off!  

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PM: 10 miles, 3 of them hill intervals.  Taking days off makes me feel so sore.

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AM: 50k on the undulating Croom trails, solo.  I really should have waited a day to try this, as the weather Monday is/was much better.  Entirely too hot and humid for a solo session like this.  I had two drop locations, one at the halfway (miles 9 and 24)along the loop, and one at the start/finish (miles 16 and 31), and did two 15-mile loops with a 1+ mile run from my car to the back side of the trails.  

I thought I had prepared my drop stations well, but I definitely did not.  I made it through 24 miles just fine, and then I tripped over a root going up a hill, and did a nice roll.  It wasn't a huge deal, but I was now incredibly more aware of how my body was truly feeling.  Things stopped clicking along, and I felt every step from there forward.  The last 7+ miles were excruciating mentally.  

I love Croom, and I am disappointed in my lack of mental fortitude.  I walked a bit in those last couple of miles, and that's just... not like me.  To quit like that.  I felt sick, dehydrated, tired, and beat up at the end getting in my car.  Heading back to my primary drop station, someone had stolen my cooler too, so that put a damper on things.  

Oh well.  No one ever said running a trail 50k was easy.  I guess I just thought I was more durable than that.  One fall and all of a sudden mentally I was toast?  Come on now.  My ego is a bit bruised.

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AM: 3 fast miles of alternating 600s and 1000s (eight total intervals.  10.1 total miles.

PM: 7.3 total miles, 3 fast of alternating miles and 800s (six total intervals.)  

Felt surprisingly good, considering Sunday's mess.  

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PM: 9 miles.  Tried a new location with Steve- did not like it too much.  It was just too much repeptition.

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PM: 9 miles back and forth over the hills and bridges to get some semblance of hills with the group.

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