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February 2013

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Location:

Buffalo,NY,

Member Since:

Aug 15, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Personal Bests
  • 1500m : 4:43 (May 2001)
  • 1 mile: 5:18 (August 2012) 
  • 5k: 17:39 (December 2003)
  • 8k: 30:02 (June 2003)
  • 10k: 37:21 (November 2003)
  • 15k : 59:48 (July 2012)
  • 10 miles: 62:39 (February 2002)
  • Half-Marathon (Covered Bridges): 1:23:29 (June 2002)
  • Marathon (Wineglass): 3:04:42 (Oct 2011)
  • Half Ironman (Tupper Lake): Swim 38:19, Bike 3:01:xx (with flat tyre change), Run 1:58:xx, Total time 5:44:44 (Jun 2004)

Short-Term Running Goals:

General Goals for 2013

  • Break 3 hours as Boston
  • Mile in 5:00
  • 5k in 17:30

Results and my 'A' Races for 2013 (Click for Race Report)

  • Y-10 10 Miler (February 9)
    • Goal: 63? (honestly, no idea)
    • DNS
  • Boston Marathon (April 15)
    • Goal: 2:57
    •  Time: 3:12:46
  • Springville Stampede (May 9)
    • Goal: 18:36
    • Time: 18:28
  • Chase Corporate Challenge 3.5 (June 6)
    • Goal: 20:30
    • Time: 20:30
  • Brian Moorman PUNT Foundation Blackbird 8K (June 19)
    • Goal: 30:00
    • Time: 30:03
  • Boilermaker 15k (July 14)
    • Goal 58:00
  • Mueller Mile (August)
    • Goal 5:00
  • Run into Buffalo 15k  (Sept 2)
    • Goal 57:30
  • Troy Turkey Trot 10k (Nov 28)
    • Goal 37:00

Long-Term Running Goals:

  1. Sub 3:00 Marathon
  2. 17:00 5k
  3. 1:20 Half-marathon

Personal:

Originally from the small town of Galway, NY (near Saratoga), I currently live in Buffalo, NY.  I'm a community pharmacist  I  graduated from the University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy with my pharmD in 2007 and my PhD in 2011. I'm married and have 2 dogs (Sadie, a lab, and Ralphie, a Eskie mix).  We enjoy anything outdoors from Backpacking and hiking to snowboarding.

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Sadie's Lifetime Miles: 298.30
Ralphie's Lifetime Miles: 346.60
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7 miles before work. Nothing special, felt sluggish.  Pace: 7:55

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We got about 8+ inches of snow last night so I retreated to the basement for my tempo interval workout.

5 mile w/u
4x1 mile at tempo (6:19) with 1 min recovery
1 mile c/d

 Felt good but I kept blowing the breaker on the powerstrip.  I need to replace the strip with something more heavy duty or put a new outlet  for the treadmill

 


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Still pretty messy out from the snow so I did my run on the treadmill again, ugh.  13 miles @ 7:47 while watching Looper.  I was pleasantly surprised by the movie.  I seem to have a low calf pull going on.  I need to watch it and make sure it doesn't get bad.  Maybe I did it with my speed workout last night

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Long run in the southtowns.  Massive hills right in the middle of the run kinda sucked the life out of me. Total of 1350 elevation and average pace of 7:54.  Kinda rough towards the end but not bad overall

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9 miles before work.  Average pace 7:28.  Felt ok

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10 miles in the afternoon around the neighborhood. 7:21 pace.  Ok again

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went to the gym with Ash and ran on the treadmill.  did 10.  1 mile warm-up and then 8 at marathon pace (6:44) and then a mile cool-down.  Felt suprisingly good but it's pretty rough doing it on the treadmill

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it was warm out so I ran with each doggie before work.  4 with each one.  Nice easy recovery pace.  8:10. 

Sadie's Miles: 4.00Ralphie's Miles: 4.00
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Blech, I'm in a serious funk.  Completely unmotivated to run and about pretty much everything. It doesn't help I have some sinus thing on top of it.  Last week was basically a throw away week missing 2-3 runs and this week isn't looking much better. Had a race scheduled on the 9th and couldn't get the motivation to go and didn't, and then felt like poo for missing it afterwards.

Missing runs psychs me out, makes me panic about miles, and makes me question my ability to hit my goal in April which makes me more in a funk.  It's a self-perpetuating cycle.  Hopefully I'll snap out of it soon

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Ran after work.  Uneventful, 7:40 pace

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Ran with the doggies at a nice easy pace.  5 with each of them, averaged out to 7:48

Sadie's Miles: 5.00Ralphie's Miles: 5.00
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Up at 5:15 to run before work.  5 again with each dog.  7:35 total pace.  It was pouring out so we all got soaked, yuck

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Second 20 mile run of the cycle.  Had a late lunch so my tummy was a little unsettled for it.  Kinda cold and VERY windy.  The last 10 miles had a bunch of miles into 25+mph headwind.  Felt pretty ok otherwise, pace: 7:43

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Tempo interval.  5 mile warm up run down to the cemetary.  2 miles at tempo, 1 mile recovery and repeat.  Intervals came out to be 13:40 and 13:30 on a rolling course.  Cooldown, recovery, and warm up was paced at 7:40. Ended up getting locked in the cemetary so I had to run to a far gate to get out which added a mile to the run.  

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Recovery run with the dogs.  5 with each.  Kinda cold still.  Blech.  7:47 pace

Sadie's Miles: 5.00Ralphie's Miles: 5.00
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11 miles before work. Cold and tired and for some reason my hips are killing me.  Not really sure why, hopefully it'll pass.  Pace a little faster than I'd like but it sped up towards the the finish ending with 7:10 miles

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