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Location:

Ft. Riley,KS,U.S.A

Member Since:

Feb 06, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

My first attempt at long distance as an adult.

Kirkuk, Iraq Half Marathon- 1:48:?? forgot seconds.

Short-Term Running Goals:

I will be entering the Eisenhower Marathon in Abilene, KS. This will be my first marathon and I'm pretty ambitious. I want to qualify for Boston.

I want to run 3:05 for Eisenhower, but ultimately want run sub 3:00 by the end of 2011.

Long-Term Running Goals:

As far as long term goals I would like just to stay healthy and injury free....and fast!

Qualify for the Iron Man Tri in Kona and finish in spectacular fashion!

Personal:

I'm currently in the Army and I love that I'm faster than all my Soldiers (who are a lot younger than me). It just seems the older I get the faster I am.

I'm deployed, but I should be back in the states pretty soon.

Being in the Army definitely puts a toll on family and unfortunately I'm divorced, but I have a beautiful daughter who melts my heart.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
New Balance 1224 Lifetime Miles:						207.84
Asics Noosa Tri 6 Lifetime Miles:						12.69
Brooks Adrenaline GTS X Lifetime Miles:						17.73
Brooks Adrenaline GTS 15 Lifetime Miles:						46.26

Sun, Feb 06, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
4.00	2.00	0.00	0.00	6.00

Today I felt ok. My calves have been a little sore, so I took a lil longer to stretch them. I have a training partner and today I was running with him on his marathon pace for 4 miles. His pace is a lil slower than mine, but I think my calves were tight and thats why I took it easy at first. The 5th mile I picked it up a little and the 6th was definitley close to my marathon pace.

Mile 1-07:51.72

Mile 2-07:47.62

Mile 3-08:07.11

Mile 4-07:54.71

Mile 5-07-03.25

Mile 6- 06:56.83

Can someone explain what are Thershold Miles and VO2 Max Miles, and why they are important?

Night Sleep Time: 7.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 7.00	Weight: 162.00	Calories: 836.00

Comments

From Karen on Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 23:18:09 from 69.171.160.2

Welcome soldier! Everyone defines things a bit different, so your best bet might be to get your hands on Jack Daniels running book. In short, VO2 max are going to be your "speed work", that is at mile pace or faster. Threshold is your anaerobic threshold pace. that magic place that you can run forever at, where you are breathing kinda heavy, but not in anaerobic land. Some define it as your 10k pace-i take someone's VVO2 (or fastest pace they ca n run one single mile) and add a minute (or 40 seconds if they are in EXCELLENT racing shape) OR add about 30 seconds to your average pace that you run a 5k. There are amazingly wonderful "AT" or threshold workouts that will give you great gains. __This is a very simplified explanantion...

From Pittbully Running Project on Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 01:25:30 from 95.170.209.139

Karen thanks for the explaination and I will definitely get ahold of the JD running book.

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