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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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Sun, Jun 01, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.40	0.00	0.00	0.00	12.40

A.M. 10k easy pace down the valley, then 10k back just short of marathon pace. Runnning purposely later both days this weekend to try to get my body to acclimatise to the heat. It was 30°C/86°F when I got back home. Total 20k in 1:29:57, av pace 4:30/k, 7:14/mi.

Comments

From Tom on Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:14:58

Good job on the workout today, really nice pace especially in the heat. Also good luck getting used to the warm, it's always really hard at first for me but it does get easier after doing it consistently for a while. Sure does help when you get one of those races with unexpected/unwanted high temps.

From Ian on Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:23:41

Thanks Tom, in the summer here the race starts are at 8:30/9am or late afternoon 4 or 5pm and it can be very warm. One thing I've noticed is that the heat doesn't seem to make too much of a difference to our local champions timewise, but further down the tree it adds more and more minutes on to a race time.

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