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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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A.M. Recovery and birthday run today, 43 years old, only another couple of years to AK45 :-) We're both off together today so rather than split the run I got it out of the way in one go to enjoy the rest of the day. Johanne came with me and ran a 10k round, I ran 20k nice and slow, pretty warm this morning.  I took 5k splits to make sure I stayed at rec pace as I have a tendency to get gradually faster after the first 5k is out of the way. Total 20k in 1:45:12, av pace 5:16/k, 8:28/mi. We're now going to go out for a cycle ride this afternoon with a stop for some tucker on the way.

Comments
From Kim on Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:07:27

Happy Birthday Ian! I hope you and Johanne will have a great day today!

Tom and I always love the words you use and try to figure out what you mean....what is a stop for some tucker?

From Ian on Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:09:32

Tucker - grub, din dins, nosh, scran, food!

From Tom on Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 19:23:32

Happy Birthday! And congrats on becoming a fellow 43 year old. Like you I'm already keeping an eye on 45. Too many speedsters turning 40 making it tougher than ever to place in the 40-44 AK. Sounds like you and Johanne had a great day.

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