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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, Aug 06, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.900.000.005.0013.90

A.M. Felt more with it today and after a 4k warmup ran alternate hard/easy kms down and back up the valley. My right thigh still feels stiff and and the leg does not lift as well as my left leg but I was happy enough with today, I thought the week was going down the pan. Easy kms were about 5-/k, splits for the hard kms were: 1) 3:47,  2) 3:44,  3) 3:45,  4) 3:44,  5) 3:43,  6) 3:43,  7) 3:44,  8) 3:47.  cooldown 3,4k. Total 22,4k in 1:41:25, av pace 4:32/k, 7:17/mi.

Comments
From Tom on Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 14:48:16

Ian good job listening to your body and not forcing anything that you'll regret later. I'm always prone to wanting to force my body to do whatever I've previously planned but sometimes it just doesn't work and we just have to take what our bodies are able to give.

Glad to hear you bounced back today after yesterdays tough run and ended up with a real nice workout. Sometimes just a single unplanned easy/reduced-mileage day is all we need to get back on track.

From Dale on Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 19:06:51

Body was telling you it needed a break and you listened....remember, we don't get faster during the workouts, only when we rest and absorb them. Good work!

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