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Location:

London,UK

Member Since:

Feb 10, 2013

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

MARATHON

St. George Marathon

  • 2013 - 3:48:49

Maine Coast Marathon

  • 2014 - 3:38:10

No Highschool/College running

Short-Term Running Goals:

 

Race Schedule - tentative

Santa Claus Run Battersea Park, December 5, 2015

Edingburgh Marathon May 29,  2016

Long-Term Running Goals:

Learn something new every day.

5K: 19:30

halfmarathon: 1:30:00

marathon: 3:10:00

 

Personal:

I live in London. I grew up skiing and played soccer my whole life.  Started running in 2012.

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Newton Momentum Lifetime Miles: 191.52
Brooks Cascadia Lifetime Miles: 314.02
Nike Turf Shoe Lifetime Miles: 106.51
Nike Luna Racer Lifetime Miles: 37.67
Bike Lifetime Miles: 528.34
Newton Distance Lifetime Miles: 10.65
Brooks Cascadia 7 Lifetime Miles: 150.57
Swim Lifetime Miles: 8.10
Montrail Bajada Lifetime Miles: 78.97
Saucony Mirage Drei Lifetime Miles: 235.16
Altra Olympus Lifetime Miles: 112.72
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.000.000.000.0011.00

AM: Easy mile 10miles AVP: 9:46; had a bad stomach (milk is not a good breakfast for me);  did a new route downtown Atlanta and then CNN Northside and back on 14th street PP VH.  1.6 miles warmup and cool down; whether is humid!

I liked the route; was a nice city tour with little traffic. 

 

Interesting observation about endurance:  I think it makes sense to let the body/mind decide how long (miles) and how fast (pace);  in order to build up this endurance animal in me, i am thinking i just let my body/mind run off and see how long it goes; i was afraid of long distances, long runs, and new places of running; in our usual environment everything is restricted by time and space (makes sense);  i think running can be the sport where time and place can get irrelevant (at least in the mind and a partially in terms of space);  so i just try to let things go and run where my mind leads me; did that today and i discovered a total new part of the city; did the same 2 weeks ago; that way the feeling of boredom does not come up; in contrast, by running different routes where the mind/body let me run ahead, i believer, i am getting closer to what Sasha described the essence as least i think i am getting closer; i think of it at running for the sake of running and not for the sake of time and distance;  rather being ambitious and get things done in time and place and a certain manner; i try just to let it go on the easy runs;  i think these are the runs were the inner strength shows. Not sure whether this makes sense, it makes sense for me; it is basically running without limits; in our daily life we have all these limitations; but running can be the moment where someone leaves behind all limitations; i am not an endurance animal by all means but i am trying to get there; i think that leaving behind our own created limitations and our responses to limitations is one (my) approach to get to what we call endurance; persistence is the key for this.

Saucony Mirage 2 Miles: 11.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Rob Murphy on Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:40:47 from 163.248.33.220

I'll buy that. Good thoughts.

From Fritzelac on Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 06:15:25 from 71.56.122.114

Thank you for noticing.

I run the races without taper; not sure how other runners do it. I currently try to run those Sascha 10 miles a day constantly; I know this is key to develop endurance. I recently played soccer the night before to be tired for the race; i guess this was not a good idea as soccer in some ways is a total different form of moving around.

By the way tomorrow my actual marathon run prep starts; i will use the Hanson's program plus continue to use a St. George (Veyo, ... ) training regimen for flatlanders in the South;) (including treadmill up/downhill and some biking).

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