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Location:

WA,

Member Since:

Feb 10, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

I was an 800/1500 runner in high school and college, with PRs of 1:55 and 4:08. I've run as fast as 16:15 for 5k and 1:20 for a half, but my bests in recent years are 17:07 5k (Dec. '11), 37:40 10k (Jan. '12), 1:23:49 half (Sept. '08), 2:53:12 marathon (September '10), and 4:45:06 50k (March '10).

Short-Term Running Goals:

Late 2015/2016 races: 

— Seattle Soltice 10k (Dec. 19)

— Nookachamps half marathon (Jan. 16)

— Toyko Marathon (Feb. 28) 

Personal:

I'm an editor at a newspaper in Bremerton, Washington and head coach of the Bremerton Jaguars youth track and field team.

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Total Distance
4.00

Planet Walk run in Logan with Paul/Cody/Jon. Been a long time since I've run in Logan with those guys, it was good. My first time on Planet Walk since the renaming. Nice early spring afternoon, even wore shorts. My legs were recovered from Moab, the soak in the hot tub Saturday afternoon and two days of no work other than a short hike was a wise, albiet a little lazy, thing to do for myself. Hey, I was on vacation. 

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Total Distance
14.00

Decided to end the lazy post-race week this morning, and headed down to the Slug Club meeting point. Ernie and Mike were there at 6:10 am, looking for 14 miles at 7:30 pace. I would have liked to run 7:30s, would really have liked to. 

We hit 7:30 for the first three, and again for mile 5. I felt good at this point, real relaxed and  enjoying a dark and drizzly Washington morning. But something happened and we'd push the pace then back off, then push, and splits were all over the board -- 7s, 7:15s, even one or two under 7. About mile 7.5 my quad developed a knot in it. I tried to stretch some to no avail but kept on going, kind of subtly prodding (I'm still kind of new, after all) that we get back to a slower pace. But there's a few little downhills on the way in and the sun was coming up, so we stayed with the faster pace. They seemed pleased with it, not too much complaining. My hamstrings were complaining though. I really tightened up, the pain moved back there and I was spent by the last few miles. I stuck with the guys, we finished 14 miles in 1:41:41 (7:13 or so overall?).

Now, my hamstrings are killing me. I've stretched, heated/iced, they're just blasted and I'm shuffling around. I wasn't sore the days after the Moab race, but not running much since did this, I suspect. I think I didn't clean whatever junk out that needed out, so loading 14 decent miles on took its toll. I'll run easy tomorrow to loosen up, maybe take a walk this afternoon. Maybe even a walk behind the lawnmower, since the sun is coming up. Any advice for the hamstrings is appreciated.

supernova -- 220.5 

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Total Distance
18.00
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