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Dunedin St. Patrick’s Day 10k

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Location:

Milton,GA,USA

Member Since:

Jul 27, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PR's -

Mile - 4:38    (High School)

2 Mile - 10:12 (High School) 

3 mile - 15:51 (High School)

10k - 35:19 (High School)

Marathon - 2:59 marathon (London -2013)

Half marathon - 1:25:18 (Deseret News 2013)

Completed all 6 of the World Marathon Majors 2024

Completed each of the 5 majors (NY, Chicago, Boston, London & Berlin) at least twice.

8 x Boston Marathon (1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2020 (virtual due to covid) 2021, 2022)

13 x NYC Marathon (1997, 1998, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 3 hour marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Continue to enjoy running and racing as long as my body permits me.  

Personal:

Old guy - (grandfather even) been running for 40+ years.  

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Miles:This week: 23.75 Month: 113.20 Year: 382.05
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
29.006.200.000.0035.20
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

PM - 4 miles on the roads with Finn. Cold wet and drizzling.  Foot seemed to tolerate it fairly well. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.500.000.000.008.50

AM - 9 miles on the indoor bike before work.  Very cold windy and rainy - and of course, daylight saving time dark.  Staying inside.

PM - lunchtime 5.5 miles on the treadmill - with the first .25 walking at a 13% incline to warm the legs.  Foot's got some "activity" going on with it, but nothing I think that requires that I do anything to adjust for it.  At least not today. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

PM -  5 miles at lunchtime on the treadmill. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.500.000.000.003.50

AM - did a little test run with the vibrams on the treadmill this morning of a half mile.

PM - 5k run with Finn on the golf course - ran in the vibrams again.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.000.000.000.003.00

AM - 1.5 miles walking on the treadmill at 15%  at 3.4 mph then 2000 meters of indoor rowing.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles easy running on Clearwater Beach with Riley.  In town for a wedding this weekend. 

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Race: Dunedin St. Patrick’s Day 10k (6.214 Miles) 00:42:41, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.006.200.000.007.20

 

I was in the Tampa area for a wedding this weekend and decided to run this 10k in downtown Dunedin.  A little iffy about my foot - and the race was clearly set up for low key competition - (5k to follow at 9:30 to coincide with the beginning of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations - which is a big deal in this little town.  So I felt like running a tempo effort and gauge my intensity so I would do no harm to the foot.  

The race course was literally out and back on The Pinellas Trail from just north of the BlueJays stadium to Curlew road and back.  I started off easy and locked in a 6:50-ish pace.  Gradually I picked off runners one by one until just before the turnaround when I found myself in 2nd place overall.  The 1st place runner was a good couple of minutes ahead but clearly out of reach for me.  The first woman who I had passed around the 2 mile mark stayed close and passed me at just over 4 miles.  She gapped me a bit but then I maintained the same gap through finish.  

Good splits 6:55, 6:44, 6:43, 6:51, 7:00, 6:57 and 6:32 pace for the last .2.  Foot felt solid.  Pleased with the results.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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