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Location:

Baden-Württemberg,Germany

Member Since:

Oct 29, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Started running in 2004.

PR's 

10k 37:44 Sülzbach May 08

Half 1:24:22 Bottwartal  Oct 06

Marathon: 3:06:18 Antalya Mar 08

Short-Term Running Goals:

Train consistently.  

Sub 37:30 10k

Finally break that longstanding 1/2M time

Run a sub 3:00 marathon.

Have a crack at a 5k, an uphill only race, a 50k.

Long-Term Running Goals:

2:55 marathon

37:00 10k

1:22 1/2 marathon

Place 1st in my age category.

Personal:

I'm a Brit living in a small town in the south west of Germany, on the edge of a nature park, the Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald. The landscape is very hilly with vineyards & orchards on the lower slopes merging into forest above. 42 years young, married since 1997 to my lovely wife.

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Wed, Oct 31, 2007
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.502.000.000.608.10

A.M. chilly misty morning today. I started using a marathon plan for the first time on Mon and today called for 13k general aerobic & speed with 10 x 100m sprints.  Could use the local school track this morning as its autumn school hol this week. Warmed up and after a sluggish start woke up my body with the sprints and 300m jogging inbetween.  Then ran 8k working the pace down. Total 13k, in 56:27, av pace/k 4:21

Comments
From MichelleL on Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:21:16

Welcome to the Blog!

So what's the easiest way to convert your pace, multiply by 1.6? Is that accurate enough?

I am jealous of your trail running and the beauty there. Sounds so cool.

So what marathon plan are you using?

From Ian on Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:26:47

Hi Michelle, I'm going convert the pace in future to imperial. The pace yesterday was 6:59 mi using a convertor.

The marathon plan is from the advanced marathoning book by Pete Pfitzinger. I've just ran as much as volume as I could manage up to now, pace by feel, tapering 2 days before any race. The result is lots of mediocre training with little difference in pace. Hence the plan.

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