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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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Mon, Apr 28, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
21.900.000.000.0021.90

A.M. Warm spring weather (20°C/68°F) for my long run. Steady, easy run pace, drank 125ml water at 10k, then every 5k. Felt pretty good for the first 30k, last 5k a little more torturous. Weight before: 68.3kg, after: 65,6kg. Total 35.2k in 2:47:18, av pace 4:45/k, 7:38/mi.

Comments
From Tom on Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 18:46:31

Hey congrats on the race a couple of days ago, I just read the report. Looks like you've recovered pretty well.

I'm just the opposite of you, I like to charge down the hills and pass people but then hope and pray they don't pass me back on the up. For me the biggest help with the downhill is just to do plenty of training running downhill (I guess that sounds pretty obvious). Your shins and quads may scream at first and you need to go real easy at first to avoid injury, but after 3-4 times running down a decent descent it will get alot easier, with less or no soreness the day after and soon you'll be able to fly down and take full advantage of gravity without feeling like you're going to destroy your legs.

From Ian on Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:56:43

Thanks Tom, I am going to make more of an effort on the downhills and incorporate downhill strides. There is hardly any flat races locally so I've got to get a grip of this.

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