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52 marathons, Overall winner 15 times, PR 2:20:25 at St. George 2013, Kona Ironman 2002, Zero DNF

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Sat, Mar 28, 2015

Race: Striders Half Marathon (13.109 Miles) 01:11:59, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 3

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
7.50	13.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.60

I will have to chalk this one up as a good workout. My legs were heavy from the get go and they never felt better. Riley and Dave had great come back runs and Mike finished a solid second. The course was faster than years past because they changed it to be the first half of the Ogden Marathon, only difference bein you run on the parkway instead of the road starting at mile 8. Sadly in at least three of my Ogden Marathons I ran this first half faster than I did today. Oh well. This was my last long workout before Boston so it will have to do.

Nike LunaRacer +3 Miles: 14.60	Nike Pegasus 31 V2 Miles: 6.00

Comments

From RileyCook on Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 18:31:14 from 73.52.134.194

Yeah I wouldn't worry much about it if I were you. You've been training a ton and kept your eye on the prize (Boston). Days like this can happen when you are running that large training volume (most you've ever done isn't it?)

It was great seeing you again, it'd been too long.

From Burt on Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 23:10:50 from 184.101.203.22

Good luck at Boston. You hardly ever lose marathons, so I'm counting on you to bring home the victory.

From Jenruns on Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 08:32:48 from 73.20.25.97

I am feeling you with the heavy running legs...Must be taper time huh? Regardless, great race and a great workout for Boston. You are going to do well!

From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 17:34:36 from 192.168.1.1

Fritz:

Looking at the patterns in your last 4 races - the problem I think is in the adrenal glands or somewhere in that direction. I have seen those exact patterns on a number of occasions and they have been associated with training more than I slept for, or some kind of life stress, or combination of those two factors. My recipe for recovery:

- increase the sleep

- do what you can to decrease the stress

- maintain decent mileage to avoid the loss of endurance but keep the pace slow to let the glands heal

- moderate volume but fast pace intervals with long rest - e.g. 5x400 with 400 recovery jog at mile race pace - the pace might need to be varied - the idea is that you need to feel miserable in the last 100 of it and practice maintaining the pace through the misery - but do not try to go further because you really will not be able to at a pace that will give you something anyway

- weekly tempo runs primarily with the purpose of testing the progress - for me when things are off I can start a 3 mile tempo at a decent pace for a mile, then in the next mile it drops off sharply, and stays there. If things are good, there is no problem maintaining the starting pace.

From Fritz on Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 22:42:09 from 70.177.5.22

Thanks for the advice Sasha. Lack of sleep, more miles, and a change in my work schedule (I have traveled for the last three weeks) definitely seem to be throwing me off a bit.

I like the idea of the 400s with the long rest. Hopefully in these next two weeks leading up to Boston I can get some zip back in my legs.

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