Rhett

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Location:

Lake Havasu City,AZ,

Member Since:

Sep 29, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

23 marathons

6 Bostons (2007-2011, 2017)

3 Half Ironmans

2 Ironmans

3 50 Milers

1 Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim

Marathon PR:

     2:59:00 St. George 2008

     2:58:03 Boston 2010

 1/2 Marathon PR:

     1:25:41  Havasu Half 2009

     1:24:09 Painter's St.George 2010

 Half Ironman PR:

      5:25:02  HITS Havasu 2014

5K PR:

       18:23  LHC Turkey Trot 2014

        18:22  LHC Turkey Trot 2017

50 mile PR:

        7:56:14 Avalon50 2016

Short-Term Running Goals:

Break 3 hours again

Doing it a Boston would be sweet!

It was sweet!

UPCOMING RACES

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Have fun!

 

Personal:

Married

4 kids

Optometrist

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Salomon Sense Pro 4 Lifetime Miles: 320.00
Salomon Ultra Pro Lifetime Miles: 387.00
NB 1500 V6 Lifetime Miles: 219.00
Adizero Pro Lifetime Miles: 57.00
Hoka Clifton 8 Lifetime Miles: 346.00
Brooks Ghost 14 Lifetime Miles: 343.00
Brooks Ghost 14 #3 Lifetime Miles: 163.00
Inov8 G270 Lifetime Miles: 20.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 recovery miles followed by a good hilly 10 mile bike ride.


 

Asics DS Racer Miles: 4.00
Comments
From Yasir on Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 19:19:51 from 99.20.240.157

I'm going to take your advice on the biking. how should I set these bike like what intensity how far to go considering I try to run 6 days a week for 60 or more miles.

From Smooth on Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 23:37:33 from 71.219.132.183

Great week of running and cross-training and recovery! Very intelligent training plan! :)

From I Just Run on Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 09:23:02 from 67.79.11.242

That's called a "brick" ... pretty smart aren't I? :-)

From Rhett on Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 13:17:47 from 24.121.0.8

Smooth, I'm at least trying to be "intelligent" about my training. You never know until race day if it works.

IJG, you got it. It's a Tri thing.

Yasir, That is a tough question as every runner is different. Over the last 11 years I have run 15 marathons and am now training for number 16. Not once have I trained the same way for any marathon. I have tried to learn from each training cycle and change things up based on what worked for me, so everything I do is anecdotal based on my experience. I see that you seem to pound out 10 milers pretty consistently and I'm guessing at usually about the same pace. If that is working I wouldn't recommend getting on the bike. I like to use the bike as recovery from or preparation for my harder runs. For me that works. As a matter of fact, my first sub 3 I ran 4 days a week with 2 days cross training. My second sub 3 and my marathon PR I only ran 3 days a week with 3 days cross training. Now those 3 days a week were all very hard runs and fairly long. Anyways, there is more than one way to skin a cat. So hopefully that helps with the biking question.

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