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WWU Vernachia 5k

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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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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
55.750.000.006.2261.97
Brooks Ghost 6 (B) Miles: 12.00Hoka Stinson Miles: 3.50Saucony Ride Miles: 27.00Ravenna 5 (grey) Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

12 pretty steady miles in the Chuckanuts with Tanner. 

Brooks Ghost 6 (B) Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.500.000.000.0013.50

AM - Work loop.

PM - 10 miles with my wife on the bike. She kept telling me to mush, so I think we were going a little quicker than normal. I felt tired, anyway. Best day we've had so far, upper 60s and sunny.

Hoka Stinson Miles: 3.50Saucony Ride Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.250.000.003.1110.36

Met up with Derek at Klicks and headed up to Western for 5x1k with 3:00 rests.

I'm really feeling the work from this weekend, so I wasn't sure how I'd feel. Lots of muscle soreness and fatigue. After the full warmup, I managed to click off 3:04, 3:03, 3:03, 3:01, 3:01. No strain, I felt I could run 2 more, aside from feeling sore in the calves.

Ravenna 5 (grey) Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 easy.

Saucony Ride Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

6 easy with Tanner.

Ravenna 5 (grey) Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Race: WWU Vernachia 5k (3.107 Miles) 00:15:24, Place overall: 8
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.003.1112.11

Track 5k, one of the few opportunities I'm going to get this year due to my work schedule. Ike paced again this year and my plan was to go out at the back of the lead pack and get towed along as far as I could go. I was hoping to run 15:10-15:20.

The pace off the back of the pack was quicker than I expected, but it felt totally fine. I was dead on 15:00 pace right from the gun, 2:59 at 1k, 4:49 at 1600m, and I was starting to think I might be able to run right around 15:00. I felt the pace slow after 1600 and decided to wait until 6 laps to go before making any moves.

At 6 laps in, one of the favorites fell and I had to nearly stop to avoid stepping on him. After that, all of a sudden the race felt hard. I got to 3200m in 9:42 (I think....) and from there I slowly started to die and I don't remember my splits. With 2 laps to go I remember thinking "Great 2:30 will get me under 15:20," but I did not run 2:30. There must have been a couple of awful laps in there, because I crossed the finish line in 15:24. I was flogging myself for the last mile trying to get more out, but I just couldn't.

I don't mind running off my goal times when I can get everything out of myself, and I felt I at least did that. Maybe with better pacing I could have shaved several seconds off, but under these circumstances, when I'm not anywhere close to PR shape, I'd rather just go for it and see what happens.

It was a great day for a few old teammates who got themselves well under 15:00.

Saucony Ride Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
55.750.000.006.2261.97
Brooks Ghost 6 (B) Miles: 12.00Hoka Stinson Miles: 3.50Saucony Ride Miles: 27.00Ravenna 5 (grey) Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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