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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, Feb 27, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.002.000.000.008.00

A.M. Stormy with cold winds, back to shivering until I warmup. Today was a mini dress rehearsal, wore my marathon racers but you can forget the slip and shorts - too cold. Warmup 5k at easy pace, then slipped into marathon pace for a couple of miles, then easy again for 5k. No probs other than an ache in the outside of my left knee, only myself to blame as I caused it yesterday with some over zealous stretching. Total 13k in 58:30, av pace 4:30/k, 7:15/mi.

I've been reducing my calorie intake this week because of the taper. I'd thought I would put weight on but the opposite has happened and my weight has dropped a kilo to 67,3kg/148lb. It will come back up again when I start carbo loading Fri/Sat. When I first started running I weighed 92kg/203lb, now no one asks me to help them move furniture.

Comments
From Dale on Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 18:32:49

Now the tough part...the last few days before the race. All the weird and mystical pains start magically appearing. Don't sweat them, get a good carbo load going and rest up. Race day beckons!!!

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