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Oct 03, 2010

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Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

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NOTE TO DOUG

Short-Term Running Goals:

PR for All Race distances - simple enough - right?

Improve VDOT from 42 and get to 43 as proven by Race Result(s) or Time Trial(s).

Long-Term Running Goals:

Qualify for Boston Marathon

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
18.884.942.571.2027.59
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.890.000.001.206.09

Today begins Week 5.  Begin training at VDOT 42 paces.  

 

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/145730794

516D18Q

Quality Workout scheduled:

2 Miles Easy pace.  Sets of 5 minute hard with 4 minute jogs to total 8% weekly mileage.  (50 mi. x8%=4 miles.  4miles @ 7:26/mile = 29:44 or about 30 minutes…thus 6 repeats)

Did: The Canal Trail route at 3:11pm.  Ran 6.09 miles in 55:57 at 9:11/mile. 

I stayed at 5K pace of 7:26/mile for the most part for the six repeats.  However, I did not run the repeats for the prescribed times.  I held the pace for 90 seconds to two minutes.

I have to get better at these VO2MI workouts and holding the pace for longer periods.

Next time I run this type of workout, I will go for half mile repeats.  Thus each rep should be done in 3:43 – not the full 5 minutes – but closer to five minutes than what I ran today.  I will run at a speed that will allow me to make the distance while of course aiming for 7:26/mile.

Once can do this…go for the five minutes. 

So did about nine minutes hard versus 30 minutes hard.  For now…consider this a Quality workout.  Really not a quality workout…but you gave it a shot.  Consider it so. 

Possible factors on poor results: Toggling between the Garmin watch fields to determine time/pace/distance, going out too fast and slowing, the 14 miler yesterday, haven’t done enough VO2MI workouts to carry the pace for 5 minutes, not fit enough to do this yet.  Further assessment needed.    

I have a tempo quality workout planned for Saturday.

I may do another quality workout before then (tempo run of 60 minutes @ 8:18/mile or something similar). 

I know I can easily carry the VDOT 42 Easy and Marathon paces for long distances.  I suspect the VDOT 42 tempo runs will not be a problem.  The VDOT 42 repetition runs at 200 meters will not be a problem…Carrying the VDOT 42 rep pace for 300 meters at 6:49/mile; well that will need some work as I had difficulty putting together the slower 5K pace for the 300 meter distance as seen below!

Carrying the FASTER paces at 300 meters and more are proving difficult!  The Repetition and 5K paces for extended periods: that is what needs improvement!!! 

A work in progress. 

 

 

Split

Time

Distance

Elevation Gain

Elevation Loss

Avg Pace

1

0:18:35

2

76

53

9:17

2

0:02:09

0.29

37

0

7:26

3

0:04:00

0.39

0

17

10:23

4

0:01:11

0.17

0

0

7:01

5

0:04:00

0.4

6

13

9:55

6

0:01:05

0.14

16

0

7:33

7

0:04:00

0.4

0

0

10:05

8

0:01:33

0.21

0

0

7:29

9

0:04:00

0.41

0

23

9:50

10

0:01:30

0.2

0

19

7:25

11

0:04:00

0.4

49

0

9:54

12

0:01:28

0.19

0

0

7:48

13

0:04:00

0.41

0

13

9:41

14

0:04:27

0.48

0

40

9:11

 Summary

0:55:57

6.09

184

179

9:11

Comments(4)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.080.000.000.005.08

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/146273342

517D019

At 3:15pm ran 5.08 miles in 47:12 @ 9:17/mile.  Thus Easy Miles.

State Street Route.  5.08 Easy Miles

At 2.75 mile mark, the pace was 9:50/mile.  For the next 2.33 miles, decided to pick up the pace to bring pace in line with Easy miles (9:25/mile). 

I decided to set the watch using the interval setting for ¼ mile splits today to practice viewing watch without toggling between screens. 

 

Split

Time

Distance

Elevation Gain

Elevation Loss

Avg Pace

1

0:02:30

0.25

0

0

9:59

2

0:02:22

0.25

0

50

9:29

3

0:02:28

0.25

0

23

9:52

4

0:02:31

0.25

0

11

10:06

5

0:02:28

0.25

0

0

9:52

6

0:02:26

0.25

12

0

9:45

7

0:02:29

0.25

0

0

9:57

8

0:02:29

0.25

0

7

9:56

9

0:02:27

0.25

9

0

9:48

10

0:02:23

0.25

15

0

9:34

11

0:02:30

0.25

18

0

9:59

12

0:02:18

0.25

0

0

9:14

13

0:02:10

0.25

0

23

8:40

14

0:02:15

0.25

0

0

9:01

15

0:02:00

0.25

0

17

8:01

16

0:02:07

0.25

0

0

8:30

17

0:02:05

0.25

0

0

8:20

18

0:02:10

0.25

0

4

8:42

19

0:02:12

0.25

0

0

8:48

20

0:02:08

0.25

0

0

8:34

21

:42.9

0.08

0

0

8:26

 Summary

0:47:12

5.08

55

136

9:17

Add Comment
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.004.940.000.004.94

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/146891342

518D020

4.94 miles in 45:02at 9:07/mile with 312 feet elevation. 

Rocky Hill.  4.94 Marathon Pace Miles

Call these Marathon pace miles (VDOT 42 at 8:26/mile) as they were likely Marathon pace intensity given the 312 feet total elevation for the 5 miler. 

Of note, consider using this course to train for Colchester.  Colchester has 770 feet elevation…this is the equivalent for the distance and elevation I ran today (770x0.38=293 feet).  Try to go faster than 9:07/mile next time…maybe a ten miler at a fast pace and make it a quality workout. 

The Colchester Half Marathon course and Elevation

http://www.halfmarathons.net/usa_half_marathons_connecticut_colchester_half_marathon_map.html

 

Split

Time

Distance

Elevation Gain

Elevation Loss

Avg Pace

1

0:09:28

1

106

0

9:28

2

0:08:44

1

24

99

8:44

3

0:09:36

1

85

79

9:36

4

0:09:02

1

70

24

9:03

5

0:08:12

0.94

28

111

8:41

 Summary

0:45:02

4.94

312

313

9:07

Add Comment
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.000.000.000.000.00

Race

Robin

Pat

Difference

 

 

 

 

Colchester Half Marathon 2009

1:53:55

2:15:17

+21:22

Colchester Half Marathon 2010

1:45:48

1:59:36

+13:48

Colchester Half Marathon 2011

1:49:15

1:53:26

+4:11

Colchester Half Marathon 2012

1:50:56

1:58:56

+8:00

Colchester Half Marathon 2013

1:51:09

1:48:57

-2:12

 

 

 

 

New Haven Road Race 20K 2009

1:36:03

1:41:00

+4:57

New Haven Road Race 20K 2010

1:39:12

1:42:25

+5:13

New Haven Road Race 20K 2011

1:44:25

1:55:34

+11:09

New Haven Road Race 20K 2012

1:41:48

1:44:32

+2:44

New Haven Road Race 20K 2013

1:42:50

1:50:52

+8:02

 

 

 

 

 Manchester Road Race 4.748 Miles 2009

0:36:08

0:39:06

+2:58

Manchester Road Race 4.748 Miles 2010

0:35:24

0:37:23

+1:59

Manchester Road Race 4.748 Miles 2011

0:36:46

0:36:57

+0:11

Manchester Road Race 4.748 Miles 2012

0:36:02

0:37:09

+1:07

 Manchester Road Race 4.748 Miles 2013

0:37:37

0:39:46

+2:09

 

 

 

 

Citizen Bank 5K Middletown 7/15/09

0:22:52

0:26:47

+3:55

Chicago Marathon 10/10/10

3:52:24

4:04:47

+12:23

Fairfield Half Marathon 6/26/11

1:46:49

2:02:17

+15:28

Cox Sports Marathon 5/12/13

3:53:39

4:10:50

+17:11

 

 

 

 

Comments(1)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.910.002.570.0011.48

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/147132134

519D021Q

Quality Workout.  1:42pm.  Rings of State.  2.57 Threshold Miles, 8.91 Easy Miles

11.48 miles done in 1:41:59 at 8:53/mile.

Scheduled: 2 Miles Easy pace {9:25/mile} + 2 x (10 minutes at Threshold pace {7:52/mile}with 2-min rests) + 1 Hour Easy pace.

I did the precise workout as scheduled and at better than planned paces. 

I am very satisfied with this result.  I had difficulty putting together (90-120 second repeats at 7:26/mile with 4 minutes rest) Sunday.  Today I easily handle (10 minutes at 7:46/mile with two minutes rest)!  Does 20 seconds really make that much of a difference?  I do not think so.  I suspect I am better with longer distances…I can run a quick pace in time and can build…not however in the minimal time it takes to run 300-400 meters – or at least not yet.

CONFIRMATION: I can handle the ten minute Cruise Intervals at VDOT 42 intensity.

Learned about feature on the Garmin watch…Advanced Workouts.  It allows me to enter multiple steps for a particular workout.  For example…I can program 2 miles Easy pace + 4x (1 mile T pace with 1-min rest) + 5 min Easy pace + 3 x (1 mile T pace with 1-min rest) + 2 miles Easy pace.  For the longest time, I was wondering how to program that kind of a workout into the Garmin.  I thought the watch features were lacking…turns out…my knowledge of the Garmin functions were lacking. 

Week 5 Summary: 2 Quality Workouts done, One Quality workout became much easier, 27.59 miles of 50 done (55%), ran 4 of the 6 scheduled days.  

Month January summary: 8 Quality workouts done (2 VO2MI, 2 Tempo, 4 Longs {two with half being MP miles}, 2 Speed workouts, some pick-ups, Ran long 5 of past 5 Saturdays, Ran every Saturday and Sunday past 5 weeks, 138.38 January Miles, Ran 19/31 days, Moved from VDOT 41 to VDOT 42.

IMPROVE ON: INCREASING MILEAGE.

IMPROVE ON: ID ON THE SCHEDULE…HOW TO BUILD IN MILEAGE.

Saturday and Sundays are in place as definite days to run.  I have not missed any of those.

Build in an additional “definite” day for running…maybe a ten miler.

If there were three “definite” days…the 20 weekend miles and the additional ten miles would work out to 30 miles.  Three definite days would be guaranteed 30 miles!

The goal would then be to get the other 15-25 miles done.

Think in terms of about 25 miles Mon through Friday, 20 Miles Sat- Sun.  

 

Split

Time

Distance

Elevation Gain

Elevation Loss

Avg Pace

1

0:17:59

2

11

91

9:00

2

0:10:00

1.28

0

0

7:51

3

0:02:00

0.18

7

0

10:55

4

0:10:00

1.29

17

16

7:46

5

0:02:00

0.2

0

0

10:14

6

1:00:00

6.54

26

34

9:11

 Summary

1:41:59

11.48

62

141

8:53

Comments(6)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
18.884.942.571.2027.59
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