I am one with the levee and the levee with me

March 29, 2024

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Location:

North Salt Lake,UT,

Member Since:

Dec 12, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

1500m - 3:59.9h (2014)

5000m - 14:53.45 (Portland Track Festival 2014)

8k XC - 25:09 (Sundodger 2011)

10k XC - 31:31 (WWU Invite 2011)

HM - 1:10:19 (Houston 2018)

Marathon - 2:28:39 (Houston 2019)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Personal:

Married, working, training. While my wife has nixed all future attempts to grow glorious mustaches, she has been supportive of my crazy running dreams. Life is good.

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Miles:This week: 1.00 Month: 1.00 Year: 1.00
Mizuno Ekiden Lifetime Miles: 274.65
Flyknit Streaks Lifetime Miles: 419.25
Flyknit VFs Lifetime Miles: 80.50
Ride 14 Lifetime Miles: 652.85
Ride 15 Lifetime Miles: 275.80
Ride 15 X2 Lifetime Miles: 21.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.400.000.003.7318.13

Big-ish workout. 3 WU, 10 x 1k @ CV (2:00 rests), 4 x 200m @ mile pace as part of 3 miles back to the house.

Weather was PERFECT. Have to soak it in now while it lasts. Mid-40s with just a very slight cross wind.

3:11, 3:12, 3:10, 3:11, 3:09, 3:09, 3:08, 3:08, 3:09, 3:08

Saturday's long run has really wiped me out. My legs did not want to respond at first, and it took 4 reps before it started to feel good. Reps 5-8 felt easy, and I was thinking "Oh great, I'll really crank it up on the last 2." Then the fatigue caught up with me and "cranking it up" turned into maintaining pace. I felt very much in control, just had the muscle fatigue starting to take over.

This workout has progressed nicely:

Feb 6: 2 miles (6:10 avg), 8 x 1k (3:12 avg), 1 mile (5:55)

Feb 21: 9 x 1k (3:10.6 avg)

Mar 14: 10 x 1k (3:09.5 avg)

All on the levee, all with similar weather. I have one more scheduled in 3 weeks and hope to see similar progress.

Post-run my legs feel.... thrashed. It didn't seem like too intense of a run, but the training is accumulating. Have to be careful and listen to my body moving forward.

PM - 4 shakeout stroller miles w/ Rylie. 7:27 avg.

Lunaracer 3 Miles: 14.00Triumph 3 Miles: 4.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From Mike on Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 08:47:55 from 96.59.32.112

Wow, you should be very happy with this progress! That's excellent work especially impressive since it was a long workout.

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