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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
57.702.006.210.0065.91
Saucony Mirage 2 Miles: 32.20Newton Momentum Miles: 6.50Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 12.00Bike-test Miles: 10.00Newton Gravity Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 41.00Nap Time: 1.67Total Sleep Time: 42.67Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

AM: Easy miles

Saucony Mirage 2 Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.50Total Sleep Time: 7.50Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.500.000.000.0010.50

AM: Easy 6.5 miles  (AP: 8:58)

 

PM:  Core/strength training 

Easy 4 miles

 

Newton Momentum Miles: 6.50Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 4.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

AM: Easy:  AVP  9.01.  Easy pace seems to get faster. 

Saucony Mirage 2 Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.83Total Sleep Time: 6.83Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.200.000.000.001.20

AM:  Easy

PM: Core (ball TSX)/Yoga 

Saucony Mirage 2 Miles: 1.20
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.002.000.000.0010.00

AM: Treadmil run; AVP 9:22; 2 miles warm u; 2 miles uphill (4%); 4 miles decline (pace 8;:00 - 6:45) (2%); 2 miles cool down

Bike-test Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.33Total Sleep Time: 8.33Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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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
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Race: Possum Trot 10K (6.214 Miles) 00:44:27, Place overall: 45, Place in age division: 4
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.006.210.0013.21

Race Possum Trot 10 at the Chattahochee River 

AM:  Warm up walk; then 4.25 warm up (instant oatmeal was a bad idea; cannot digest it easily thats it for now with instant oatmeal); was close to throw up after the race again; i think i need to eat earlier such as 3hours before and less; maybe only a banana and no fiber the day before a race;  race was fast in my first 4 splits but then broke down.

cool down; 2miles 

Newton Gravity Miles: 5.00Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
57.702.006.210.0065.91
Saucony Mirage 2 Miles: 32.20Newton Momentum Miles: 6.50Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 12.00Bike-test Miles: 10.00Newton Gravity Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 41.00Nap Time: 1.67Total Sleep Time: 42.67Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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