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Big Bear Marathon

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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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1/4 mile warm up walk on TM then,

Pilates, then 30 minutes (10 miles) on stationary bike.  

Calf feels good this morning.  I may try and do a short TM run or maybe some jump rope tonight.  Trying to error on the side of caution with the calf since race day is this Saturday.

 

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1/4 mile warm up walk on TM. 

Core work.

Lower body weights, only to sets of everything instead of the normal 3.

10 minutes jump rope

1 mile on TM stating very slow and gradually building until the last 1/4 mile at sub 6 minute pace.  

Calfs felt good.  Had good push off.  No niggles until like the very last step of the mile run when I felt a tiny little something in my left calf.  It seems fine now so hopefully it was nothing.  I usually know by the end of the day.  Hopefully I won't have any tightness or knotts in the calf this evening.

Brooks Ghost 14 Miles: 1.00
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Yesterday evening my left calf was definitely sore.  This is giving me big cause for concern since race day is Saturday.  I did some massage and stretching.  This morning it felt much better.  I am not going to run or do any type of exercise that stresses my calfs until the race.  

30 minutes stationary bike this morning riding easy except for 2 1 minute hard pushes.

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Pilates then a visit to the PT. My left calf is a mess. Not sure I'll be able to race Saturday. I'm going to try though. 

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Sat in the hot tub for a bit before packing up and heading out to Blake's for the marathon tomorrow. Still very worried about my calf. 

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Race: Big Bear Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:33:52
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Big Bear Marathon 

My calf was bothering me last night so I KT taped it and told Blake that if it didn't feel better in the morning I wasn't going to run. When I got up this morning I tested it out with a little run up and down his street and decided to give it a go. 

It was a perfect day to run a marathon, cold and sunny with no wind and a serious downhill course. Blake and I ran together from the start keeping our pace right at my BQ qualifying time of 3:25. My calf bothered me on and off from the start but I decided to go as far as it would let me. We had so much fun running and talking. The miles went by quickly. At about mile 22 I started laboring a bit and my calf started hurting more. I continued to press on and mad it past mile 25 still on pace to BQ when suddenly my calf quit and I told Blake to continue on. I had to walk the last mile which was no fun and I clearly lost a lot of time and didn't BQ, but I loved the race just getting to run with Blake. We really had a lot of fun. He finished strong in 3:25:21. 

Brooks Ghost 14 #3 Miles: 26.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
27.200.000.000.000.0027.20
Brooks Ghost 14 Miles: 1.00Brooks Ghost 14 #3 Miles: 26.00
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