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January 08, 2009

Brooks Adrenaline GTS 8 Women

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Location:

Logan,UT,

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

5K: 14:48
10K: 30:27
Half Marathon: 1:09:27
Marathon: 2:18:09 (aided), 2:22:34 (unaided)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis in June of 2008. Need to learn how to manage the disease and the treatments, and figure out what sort of training I can do with it.

I would like to spend the winter building a really strong base, and potentially try another marathon in 2009. Next big race will be the Indy Mini Marathon in May, 2009.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run another marathon...well.

Personal:

Personal Blog: Of Marathons and Maps.

1 wife, 1 kid, 1 dog.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to your good. - Ovid

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. - Romans 5:1-5

Favorite Blogs:

Stacy

Miles:	This week:	25.50	Month:	46.25	Year:	46.25
Nike Air Pegasus Lifetime Miles:						455.25
Nike Elite Lifetime Miles:						430.00
Saucony Tangent Lifetime Miles:						100.00
Brooks Axiom Lifetime Miles:						293.75
Montrail Hardrock Lifetime Miles:						100.00
New Balance 780 Lifetime Miles:						50.00
Saucony Racing Flats Lifetime Miles:						5.00

Sat, Mar 24, 2007

Easy Miles Marathon Pace Miles Threshold Miles VO2 Max Miles Crosstraining miles Total Miles

15.50 0.00 4.00 0.00 0.00 19.50

AM - Easy 8.3-mile run with Cody this morning. Ran up to USU track and did some 100m striders. Hit a nice pace going back down. 7:15/mile pace overall.

(Adrenaline orange: 151 miles)

PM - Ran 11.2 miles with Cody and James down Blacksmith Fork via 2-car shuttle. I wanted to get a good downhill workout in preparation for the Ogden half and the Ogden marathon. The plan was to warm up for a couple miles and then do a 4-mile tempo at half marathon pace. I would hoping I would be able to run 5:15-5:20 pace on the downhill and have it feel easy. Unfortunately, a strong headwind damped both my spirits and my stride. I ran 22:20 for the tempo, so a 5:35/mile average. HR was in the upper 170s (88-89% max) for the bulk of it. I felt like I could never get going and that there was never "enough" downhill. Still, it was a good workout, and my pace was very steady on all the splits I got. I actually felt pretty good afterwards during the rest of the run (aside from being very hungry), and the 7:00-pace was comfortable. So that was good.

Ave HR for entire run: 152

Max HR during tempo: 181

Ave pace for entire run: 6:30/mile

I feel like I don't really have a great indicator of my true race potential right now. All of the Ogden races have been so hilly that times are meaningless. I was hoping this workout would give me an idea of where I'm at, but the headwind made it hard to correlate to the Ogden course. My body got the workout it needed for sure, but my mind is still wondering. I'm pretty sure that sub-1:10 should be doable though.

81 miles for the week (yea!). 79 miles scheduled for next week.

(Burn: 77 miles)

Comments

From steve ashbaker on Mar 24, 2007 at 21:47:11

Hi Paul, do you know the percentage of declination in the Ogden half?

From James on Mar 25, 2007 at 00:02:08

Thanks for the good run today. I hope you made it to your dinner appointment before they ate everything without you.

Sorry that you weren't able to get a good idea of the shape you are in from the workout this afternoon. I'm sure that the headwind and earlier running this week and today had something to do with that. I do know that you are in excellent shape, and you sure make it look easy.

From Paul Petersen on Mar 25, 2007 at 10:40:04

Steve: its about a -1.2% grade.

From Mike on Mar 25, 2007 at 13:51:11

Nice week. I am very impressed that you have stuck to your planned increases without getting too excited. It is easy with the beautiful weather to run too much and blow all of your good training.

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