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Murray/Jordan 20-miler

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Location:

Seattle,WA,

Member Since:

Dec 30, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

2019: 10:29 2 mile, 16:33 5k, 27:14 8k, 55:50 15K, 1:16:04 HM

Post Mayan Apocalypse PRs:

200 31.13 (2016, ATC all comers)

400 69.96 (2015, ATC all comers)

800 2:19 (2016, ATC all comers)

Mile 4:58 (2017, ATC all comers) 

3000 9:34 (2017, ATC all comers)

2mile 10:29 (2019, CNW Grand Prix)

5000 16:33.6 (2019, CNW all comers)

5k 16:50 (2018, Green Lake Gobble)

8k 27:14 (2019, Beat the Bridge)

10K 35:16 (2017, Eastside Beltline)

15K 55:10 (2018, Magnuson Park Memorial Day)

10-mile 60:29 (2017, Atlanta 10 mile)

HM 1:16:04 (2019, Lake Sammamish Half)

30K 2:01:56 (2014, Striders WRC 30K)

Mar 2:50:07 (2013, Sojo Marathon)

 

Fiddy "Classic" Accomplishments (before I forget)

2:03 800, 4:11 1500, 9:47 3200, 15:26 5000, 32:30 10000, 1:11:15 HM (unaided), 2:32 marathon (Boston)

Seattle Half Marathon '08-'11: 2nd (1:13), 4th (1:11), 5th (1:14), 2nd (1:13)

2nd MI half 2010 (1:11)

10th Seattle RNR 2009 (2:35)

97th Overall @ Boston 2010 (2:32)

2011 3rd Place @ Des News (2:35) and Top of Utah (2:33)

I once beat 14 year-old Connor Mantz (2011 Utah Valley Half 1:11) and 16 year-old Ben Saarel (2011 Flat as a pancake 16:23 in the f-ing snow)

2011 Salt Lake Half 1st place (1:14), Capitol Half 1st place (1:14), Provo City 4th place (1:16, unaided)

2011 Ragnar Ultra 1st place Wasatch Back Relay

7th place SLC half 2009 (1:11)

2009 Fremont 5k 16:00, 2010 Dart Challenge 16:05, 2011 Draper Days 16:02

2009 Running of the Leopards 15:03, aided

2009 Striders 10mile 1st place (58 mins)

2007 3rd place SCIAC 5k 15:26

2006 D3XC nationals, 184th (of 280)

Short-Term Running Goals:

5/18 Bart the Brodge

6/9 RicknRail Murothin

Long-Term Running Goals:

get busy living or get busy dying

Personal:

Crop rotation in the 14th century became considerably more widespread after John.

 

 

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76.30
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Total Distance
11.50

Well, things didn't go as planned.  I made it to the first checkpoint in 6:13, which was 6 seconds slow (5:55 first mile).  But I had the wind at my back so I should have been fast.  However my legs were feeling pretty heavy and I didn't think that I could really go any faster.  That's only a little faster than I ended my long run last Sunday! I hoped that maybe I would start to feel better, but instead I started to feel worse, alot worse.  My legs were burning and demanding that I stop immediately.  Who knows how the run would have turned out, but I knew that continuing would have been a bad idea in the long run.  So I stopped my watch and slowed to about 9 minute pace and ran home.

I think the problem is that I've been trying to fit in too many workouts recently.  I had a really tough run on Tuesday, but had been feeling fine.  I'm going to do easy mileage for a few days and then I'm going to try to tackle then 20miler in under 2:05.  I think that more reflects the type of shape that I'm in right now.

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Total Distance
9.40

Did Sugarhouse twice.  pace was 7:05.  Started to feel better on the second loop, but I felt sluggish just like yesterday.

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Total Distance
10.00

Ran up to the mountains and back. There was actually about 1000ft of climbing involved, which I guess inflates my 7:20 pace a bit.  Especially as I didn't really go that fast on the way back.

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Total Distance
10.50

Another pretty relaxed run that started at around 7:30 pace and progressed down to around 6:30. Ran up 2700S to 2000E then came down Sunnyside and finished with a little in Liberty park.

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Race: Murray/Jordan 20-miler (20 Miles) 02:02:02, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
20.00

6:06 pace! So, I got myself so redemption for Sunday! The run went off better than I would have hoped. This course includes the half marathon course that I made plus quite a bit more. So yeah its not really a race, but it was a tough effort. I was thinking I could do around 2:05, but saw that I was actually in reach of going under two hours! I was tiring/slowing at the end and didn't want to completely destroy myself to chase such an arbitrary thing when I was well inside my goal pace. Previous best on this course was 2:12 and my typical range is 2:30-2:40.

Just as I learnt alot from Sunday's failure, I also learnt alot from today.  I knew I was capable of such a thing but didn't know how it would feel. I got out a little too fast (18:35 5k, followed by 18:18, followed by 18:37 and hit 10 miles in 59:47) but it didn't really seem to matter at those speeds, I kind of recovered while still running fast.  My shins tightened up briefly in the second 5k perhaps due to the tough pace but it didn't last.  I felt really good in miles 11 and 12, I was just fully warmed up, loose and my endorphins were kicking in. Then I noticed that my right shoulder was starting to tighten up, that happens to me alot, but it didn't last. There are some rolling hills on 5300S and I handled them fine although in the end my butt started to get tired. At the end I was mostly conscious of the pain in my butt and of a general nausea.  I didn't bonk at all, I felt as I had no problem finishing with a 6 minute mile even though my legs were getting weak and I was nauseous. The nausia is probably due to the extended period of ab flexing, i don't know what to do about that.  And as for the weakness, I guess my mileage hasn't been high enough, I haven't done enough longer faster runs.

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Total Distance
4.00

As this weeks theme is recovery, I gave myself a pretty good rest after yesterday. My only real activity was to run up to East High School to watch the HS track meet. My roommate has just started helping out with the team, so I thought I'd give them some support. I wasn't really sure who did well or not, as I didn't know any of their PRs, but If I keep going I should get a pretty good idea though. There was one girl who ran 5:35 in the mile, which is obviously good.

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Total Distance
10.90

So despite all the recovery I took this week, I'm only about 5 miles less than I wanted it to be.  I finished up the week with a pretty legit base run.  I did my Sugarhouse Thrice course in a new fastest time (1:08:52) which comes out to 6:19 pace. It was a pretty uneventful run, although I did actually measure my stride rate while I was running.  It turned out to be 166 strides per minute which is much faster than I thought I would be. I think I'm going to start recording this during all of my runs to see how it varies. My last mile today was probably about 5:40.

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Total Distance
76.30
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