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Location:

St. George,UT,U.S.A

Member Since:

Apr 02, 2005

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

97th at Boston

1:09:40 Half Marathon

2:25:50 Marathon

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get healthy enough to enjoy a run again.

Long-Term Running Goals:

To be able to do it... long term. 

Personal:

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift" -Steve Prefontaine

Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll be... ever again.

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Wed, Jun 27, 2007
Total Distance
16.50

Speed workout day.

Got up at 5:20 a.m and ran the 2 miles down to the high school to meet the club. Waited until like 15 after and there was only a new guy Tony there. So I did a half mile more to be warm and started some speed miles- today there was no speed. I pretty much trashed my system last night on the hot run and could feel it like a slap in the face as soon as I started running this morning.

1. 5:26- Didn't feel good from the git go but thought as I pushed through I'd start to feel better.

2. 5:27- Same effort as the first, but by the end I don't want to do any- not even one more!

3. 5:48- Didn't want run this but am making mysef finish the workout I went there to do. Just ran lazy.

4. 5:48- Felt like I was even going slower on this mile. Dustin joined me on this one and him being there helped me push through. After I finished I was dry heaving. That seems to be happening like every run since my first leg of WBR. I think I need to do some ab work to help my stomach get over being a baby.

This workout pretty much sucked. Not only did I feel like barf, but I don't like the miles on the track. I'll stick to 800's and 400's and anything longer for speed I'll do out on the road. It's just too painful to run around the track. I can go out on the road and run the same pace and it feels a lot easier.

Between each mile did a 400. Then ran back home for 2 more miles.

Just an old fashion 7 miles on the treadmill this evening. Hit it right at 50:00. I started a 7 speed and worked my way up to 10 to finish the last half mile.

Comments
From Jon on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 00:59:48

How hot is it in the mornings down there?

From Superfly on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:34:34

Jon it is around 70 give or take at 6 a.m. Then by 6:30 or 7 it's 75-80.

From Jon on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:08:46

It would be nice running there in the winter, but I don't envy you in the summer.

From James in Sunny AZ on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:03:18

Might be better to stick to the treadmill in the evenings there. 100+ degrees will definiely trash you. Some ideas to break up the monotony on th treadmill - you could play with the incline, mess with the speed, or if you don't pound the treadmill too much, you could watch movies like my wife does (we have a portable dvd player that fits right in there). I pound it too much and would make the movie skip, but sometimes I wish I could do that. I know treadmills are boring, but that may be the best thing until it cools down. I get totally wasted in the heat too, except we are even a bit hotter than you guys. We have been hitting around 110-111, and it doesn't cool down to under 100 until after 8:30. Our low temp in the morning is around 80 (before the sun comes up).

From jtshad on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:58:14

Dang man, do you work yourself hard...how many days it that now that you have felt trashed at the end of your run?

FYI...TDM has finally posted some pics, a couple of good ones of you (crappy organization, you have to search for them...your pic numbers are "img6992" throuhg "img6995" under the "racers" category.

From wildbull on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:59:43

Hey Curley:

Sorry I missed you yesterday. But sweet Angela is nicer to look at. yoy must be going for 100 plus this week.

From Michelle on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 14:11:23

HI, I sent Mik'L some info on the shoes, thanks for your help!

From Sasha Pachev on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 14:27:04

Clyde - I discovered that when doing high mileage, or after a hard race, my nervous system can shut down pretty bad. I have been experimenting with keeping blood sugar from dipping too low during the day with good results. The idea behind it - when the muscles are glycogen starved, they will be sucking glucose out of the blood stream. Then the brain kicks in and says, hey, this is my energy, and starts shutting down the muscles when you run.

The way I know it is dropping - I start losing concentration and spacing out more. Then get a drink of Powerade and/or a couple of honey sandwiches until the brain starts working again. Good results so far - more alert during the day, evening runs felt better, and had a good tempo run today.

For your workouts - try 6x400 with full recoveries all under 70. Rest as long as you need to to be under 70. You've been doing 20x400 in 75-78, but I think this is too slow to give you the benefits unless you cut the recovery down to 100 meters. But at the same time, it seems that you are just scared to go faster. So that is why I say recover as long as you need to, but learn to run fast.

Also the good old tempo run - I think a 3-5 mile tempo is key to half-marathon speed, and 10-12 mile tempo in the middle of a long run is key to the marathon.

From James on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 15:38:18

Yeah Clyde, 20x400s at :75 are for scared little babies, start running faster!

From Mik'L on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 15:53:16

Besides the pics Jeff mentioned, look at 8072, 9627, 9848, and 6569.

I wouldn't take that from James!

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