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Location:

Pleasanton,CA,US

Member Since:

May 01, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

1M 4:53.2

5k 17:19 Spring 2009

5M 28:52

10M 59:47 (on way to my half PR)

13.1 1:18:47 2009 New Bedford Half Marathon

26.2 2:57:55 2008 Mohawk Hudson River Marathon

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Train for pacific crest trail thru hike 2017.

Run lots of miles and lose some weight in the process.

DON'T FALL OFF THE WAGON

Extend childhood (at least from fitness perspective) into my mid 40's

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

 

I want to beat my half marathon PR. And if I'm in shape to do that then I should be able to crush my marathon PR.

Personal:

31y/o computational biologist. Hoping to take 5 months off next year to hike the PCT.

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Sun, Oct 19, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.300.000.000.000.0014.30

14.3 in gilbert hills state park, give me 5 more runs in there and I will start to figure it out.  With all the leaves on the ground now everything looked different and I got lost several times and ended up doing 3 or 4 mini loops.  Jamie from the running club came with me.

 Now this is a reasonable distance.  The marathon is too long.  I felt good after this run, and progressively increased the pace during the last 40 minutes (130 minutes total).  I looked at the indoor track calendar at the usatfne site and there are a bunch of open events.  I am really tempted to do indoor track.  But if I do I should really wrap up my fall season soon, take a good 2 weeks off with cross training, and then start training fresh for the indoor season.  I should ask people how this generally goes.  The first possible race I would want to do would be december 8th at harvard.  Then the 13th and 20th there are developmental meets at brown.  I should probably just wait for the races in january and february or skip it all together and just do spring track (for which there are far fewer open meets).

I dont know, help me.

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Comments
From Nevels on Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:26:53

If I were you, I would use this fall as a giant base from which to launch into the indoor season. As long as you are fully recovered from your last big fall event (marathon?), which should take a solid month or so, you can maintain your base and use most of the indoor season as speed sessions and time trials with perhaps the last meet or two as goal events. From the looks of your blog, you are recovering well from the fall season, and you should be fine entering some meets by December.

My only indoor experience was during high school, when we ran indoor starting in January, with the state meet during the first weekend of February. We did all of this after a full cross country season, and granted, the 5k's in high school cross country aren't as tough on your body as a marathon, but we were racing until early November, took a week or so to recover, then went straight into indoor training. It might also be of interest that the first few weeks of indoor in January were always a little slower, but by the end of indoor, we were pretty close to being at full speed.

I guess that's the long way of saying go for it, man!

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