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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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Thu, Oct 16, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.500.000.002.500.004.00

Today I set out to run 10 half mile repeats with a one minute walk break in between.  Right from the start I knew it wasn't my day, and by the fifth repeat I was only running a 7 min mile pace.  My marathon pace is 6:50, so I definitely was not getting in the speed work I wanted.  I should be doing the repeats at about 5:50 pace.  Since I obviously wasn't accomplishing what I wanted, I called it a day after 5 repeats.  Heck, Monday I ran 3 miles averaging 6:14, I don't know what got into me today. 

Comments
From Teena on Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 00:26:40

That's weird!! Wish my good days would come near your bad days!! You are so stinkin' fast!!

From huans32 on Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:49:03

Rough day it looks like. I hate days like that. Good thing is tomorrow is a new day.

From JeffC on Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:00:23

Nothing wrong with abandoning a workout when it isn't going your way. We're not even two weeks out from SGM, give it time, it'll come back.

From Rhett on Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 15:59:59

Thanks for the encouragement. I have days like that every now and then, and if it is a speed day, I've learned just to call it a day and live to run another day. No reason to run slow when I'm supposed to be doing speed work.

From huans32 on Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 16:04:08

Very wise choice though. I would say the hardest workouts for me are the speed ones by far. I would rather do a 20 miler then speedwork.

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