| Location: Broken Arrow,OK,United States Member Since: Dec 13, 2009 Gender: Male Goal Type: Boston Qualifier Running Accomplishments: Route 66 Marathon 2012 (3:12:34)
Route 66 Marathon 2010 (3:35:05)
Glow Run 5k Aug 2012 (19:28)
Aquarium Half Marathon 2013 (1:30:17)
Post Oak Lodge Half Marathon Trail Run 2012 (1:46:22)
Aquarium Half Marathon 2011 (1:39:19)
Oklahoma City Memorial Half-Marathon 2010 (1:42:22)
Williams Route 66 Half-Marathon 2009 (1:42:52).
15k Tulsa Run 1:00:34 (2013) 1:01:48 (2012), 1:05:12 (2010) 1:09:05 (2009), 1:11:37 (2005), 1:14:26 (2004).
Short-Term Running Goals: 2013 Goals: Qualify for Boston in Oklahoma City on April 28th. Goal missed. Actual time: 3:20:37.
Qualify for Boston in Tulsa at the Rt. 66 in November.
PR in the half marathon in Jenks on April 6th. (Sub 1:30) PR of 1:30:17...close enough!
Marathon Finish Williams Route 66 2010 (3:35:05)
Run a sub 20 5k Full Moon 5k 2011, 19:34
Long-Term Running Goals: Win my age division. (Alzheimer's 5k 2010, 21:21)
Run a sub 3 marathon
Run an ultra.
Personal: I'm married to a very supportive, although slightly less enthusiastic runner than I. Alisha has run a little with me and participated in several 5k's, but mostly she supports me at races. She ran her first half in November, 2011. We have a son who was born in 2010, the year that I ran my first marathon. I participated in my first Triathlon in April 2011. I think I may have been bitten by the Ironman bug. Though an Ironman finish is a long term goal, I want to BQ first.
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| New Balance 1080 Orange Miles: 58.02 | New Balance 1080 Blue Miles: 54.33 | Ravenna 2 White/Black Miles: 21.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 77.25 | Nap Time: 7.00 | Total Sleep Time: 84.25 | Weight: 153.13 | Calories: 13625.00 | |
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This was my first run back since the marathon. I met Kevin at 101st and Garnet and we ran for an hour on the trail towards his house. It felt good to wake my legs back up after 8 days of time off. It was also good to run with Kevin again after several months of conflicting training schedules. I've been having a conversation with my friend Shane who is a very experienced runner and recent Boston qualifier from Oklahoma City. He suggested that I change up my training in order to BQ. His suggestion was to take the next six months and continue to run 60-70 miles per week and to also run about 4 half marathons. This would allow me to improve my lactate threshold while also building my racing experience. The half marathons can be run more often and require little to no recovery. So my schedule would look like this. 4 half marathons over the next six months. Then take a couple of weeks to recover and then build back up over six months for the next marathon. I told him I would look at the idea, but that I had two reservations. 1. I've already signed up for my home town marathon in November. 2. This is the big one. My work schedule make is difficult for me to run that many races that close together. It can be hard to find that many half marathons that happen on Sunday that I don't have to travel very far to participate in. I have to be picky about which Saturdays I take off because I only get a few per year. If I could find all local races that I could run Saturday mornings before work I could swing it. I will look to see if this is even feasible, but as of now I feel I will probably stick to plan A and build back up for the fall marathon. If I don't qualify then, I will try something different.
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| New Balance 1080 Orange Miles: 7.41 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 | Weight: 157.00 | Calories: 768.00 |
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| | Easy 6. Super humid. I'm still in recovery mode, but I'm feeling good. A pretty windy storm blew through last night. We had 40 mile per hour winds. The pond outside my neighborhood had piles of trash and debris that must have blow in and collected at each end in the shallow area and on the bank. |
| New Balance 1080 Orange Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 152.00 | Calories: 618.00 |
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| | Easy 10. I think my body feels pretty normal again. I may try some light speed intervals this week if I'm still feeling good. It was such a beautiful morning. |
| New Balance 1080 Blue Miles: 10.01 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.50 | Weight: 152.00 | Calories: 892.00 |
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| | Easy 5. It's that time of year when it starts to get a little warm outside. I think I'll run 8 tomorrow with some 100's. |
| Ravenna 2 White/Black Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | Weight: 155.00 | Calories: 599.00 |
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| | I ran 9 miles at a steady state pace of 7:42 with 7x100's at the end. It felt nice and refreshing to run at that pace. I've had a hard time getting back into it since the bonk in Oklahoma City. I think I made it through that today. |
| New Balance 1080 Blue Miles: 9.10 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 152.00 | Calories: 968.00 |
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| | I ran14.52 miles this morning on Riverside with Shane and a few of the other runners from Tulsa Runner. It was nice and breezy, but very humid this morning.7:53 AP. 74 with 94% humidity.
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| New Balance 1080 Orange Miles: 14.52 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 152.00 | Calories: 1691.00 |
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| | I ran 8 miles with 6 800's. I jogged for a quarter mile between each 800. The first one felt tough, the next three felt a lot easier, the fifth about killed me, and the sixth was not too bad. Splits: 3:05, 3:01, 3:01, 3:05, 3:16, 3:05 My jogs in between looked like this: 2:10, 2:08, 2:08, 2:14, 2:18. I felt good to get a workout in. This was my first real good workout since OK City.
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| New Balance 1080 Blue Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 154.00 | Calories: 773.00 |
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| | Easy 6. 52 degrees. It was nice and cool this morning, which felt great since it has been so warm and humid these past few days. |
| New Balance 1080 Orange Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 7.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 154.00 | Calories: 545.00 |
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| | General aerobic run. 7:52 AP. I'm felt good despite being a little bit tired from not enough sleep. |
| New Balance 1080 Orange Miles: 9.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 152.00 | Calories: 919.00 |
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| | Recovery run. 7:59 AP. The temperature felt really nice out this morning at 59 degrees with a breeze. I'm feeling like I have not had any time to devote to the blog lately. I'm on vacation next week, so I will catch up with everything then. |
| New Balance 1080 Orange Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 152.00 | Calories: 605.00 |
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It was a beautiful morning for a 16 mile run. 7:55 AP at 66 degrees. I'm excited after a very busy month to take some time off and travel to Branson with my family. Of-course by time off I in no mean time off from running. This week I'll be running the hilly streets of Branson. My schedule for this week: Mon: Rest Tues: Gen Aer 8 Wed: 3x2 mile tempo Thurs: 12 MLR Fri: 35min RR +6x200 Sat RJ 7 miles Sun: LR 16
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| Ravenna 2 White/Black Miles: 16.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.25 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.25 | Weight: 152.00 | Calories: 1738.00 |
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Branson, MO. 1:03:32. 7:51 AP. We are on vacation this week in Branson, which means I'll be getting plenty of hill workouts. Yesterday I took Ty on a go cart track called Wild Woody. It had four stories of uphill fun. He kept a pretty serious look on his face most of the time, but I knew he was having fun when I shouted out 'woo-hoo' and he yelled out too. I'm looking forward to taking him to Silver Dollar City today. He will be able to ride a lot more rides than he did last year.
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| New Balance 1080 Orange Miles: 8.09 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 153.00 | Calories: 803.00 |
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Branson, MO. 66 degrees. 5:20 AM. Tempo run 2x3 miles with 2 mile warmup and five minute cool down. I jogged for 3:15 in between the two 3 miles repeats. My average pace 7:24. First 3 mile set splits: 6:57, 7:02, 7:01 Second 3 mile set splits: 7:05, 7:04, 7:03 I would have done these splits about 10 to 15 seconds faster, but for several factors. First of all the hills out here are beastly. Yesterday we spent 8 hours walking and playing with Ty at Silver Dollar City. Considering all of that this was all I could muster and I'm happy about it.
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| New Balance 1080 Blue Miles: 9.02 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | Weight: 153.00 | Calories: 955.00 |
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| | Branson, MO. 5:33 AM. 63 degrees. Mid week MLR. 7:57 AP. My legs felt a little bit heavy today. I think that's because I've been getting such a good workout in on these hills all week. I'm looking forward to Riding The Ducks this morning and enjoying a nice glass of wine this evening with my book as our Branson vacation rolls along.
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| New Balance 1080 Blue Miles: 12.05 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 153.00 | Calories: 1117.00 |
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| | Branson, MO. 35 minute rhythm run. Splits: 7:43, 7:31, 7:10, 6:58, 6:47. I then recovered by jogging for 1:30. I then ran 3 200's with 50 second recovery jogs. 0:44, 0:43, 0:44 Just like my tempo run this week I definitely felt the Branson hills and the fatigue of spending a lot of time sightseeing and playing.
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| New Balance 1080 Blue Miles: 6.15 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 154.00 | Calories: 634.00 |
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| New Balance 1080 Orange Miles: 58.02 | New Balance 1080 Blue Miles: 54.33 | Ravenna 2 White/Black Miles: 21.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 77.25 | Nap Time: 7.00 | Total Sleep Time: 84.25 | Weight: 153.13 | Calories: 13625.00 | |
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