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Havasu Turkey Trot

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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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Salomon Sense Pro 4 Lifetime Miles: 320.00
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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
31.006.000.006.100.0043.10
Asics Tarther Miles: 13.00Reebok Reelflex Miles: 3.00Brooks Ghost 5 Miles: 15.00Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 9.00Brooks PureConnect Miles: 3.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.003.000.008.00

I didn't have to go into work until late this morning so I was able to do my speed work in the morning today.

8 x 600 m (2:12 avg- 2 seconds too fast)  with 400 m recovery jogs (2:45)

Felt good. I was a tiny bit too fast but close to the prescribed time per 600 m.  I'm really trying to do everything at the speed that is prescribed so I hopefully won't get injured.
 

Asics Tarther Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

3 easy miles before work (8:00)

3 easy miles after putting kids to bed (7:45)

Reebok Reelflex Miles: 3.00Brooks Ghost 5 Miles: 3.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.006.000.000.000.009.00

2 mile warm up

6 miles at mp (6:48).  A few seconds per mile fast but I was very consistent with my fastest mile being 6:47 and my slowest being 6:49. 

1 mile cool down

Each Wednesday on this program I am scheduled for a mp paced run.  It started right with 6 miles which I wasn't sure I would be able to maintain, but it was a beautiful morning and it wasn't too bad.

Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 9.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

7 easy miles.  Legs felt pretty good considering my hard run yesterday.

Brooks Ghost 5 Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

3 very easy miles

I was supposed to do 6 today, but I'm going to race a 5K tomorrow morning and decided to give my legs a little break after a hard week of running.

Brooks PureConnect Miles: 3.00
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Race: Havasu Turkey Trot (3.1 Miles) 00:18:56, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.003.100.0010.10

Today was the annual Havasu Turkey Trot. Cade, my 9 y.o., and Doone, my 21 y.o. wife :), did the race with me. No one else wanted to do it this year. Cade loves running and won his age group. Doone enjoys running and did a great job finishing strong.

I didn't know what to expect as I have only been concentrating on running for three weeks now since recovering from my half IM. I did a 2 mile warm up (7:45) then got ready to race. A bunch of youngsters took off blazing fast from the start. By the 1st mile they had all lost there steam and I was in third place. Mile 1 was 5:51. I was about 100 yards behind 2nd and 1st was long gone. I faded a bit on mile 2- 6:15 but was still the sample distance behind 2nd. I tried to pick up the pace a bit and thought I was closing ground a bit but then 2nd picked up his pace. Mile 3- 6:09 and then I finished the last 0.1 at 5:31 pace, still about 100 yards behind 2nd.

3rd overall, 1st in my AG

A couple hours later I did 5 more miles to get in the rest of my 10 miles off long run I was supposed to do today. (7:40)

Asics Tarther Miles: 5.00Brooks Ghost 5 Miles: 5.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
31.006.000.006.100.0043.10
Asics Tarther Miles: 13.00Reebok Reelflex Miles: 3.00Brooks Ghost 5 Miles: 15.00Sketchers R (7/26/13) Miles: 9.00Brooks PureConnect Miles: 3.00
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