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5K: 15:41-Portland Track Festival 2010

10K: 31:34-Linfield College (Track) 2012

10 Mile: 51:57-Pear Blossom 2009

1/2 Marathon: 1:10:42-Foot Traffic Flat 2010

Marathon: 2:29:35-Newport 2013

50K: 3:48:06-Weiser River 50K 2021

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12-hour race, sometime in 2021

100 mile race, sometime...

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Sub 1:10 Half Marathon

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Thu, May 22, 2008

Total Distance

12.50

Enjoyable run this morning. The temps were perfect and I enjoyed watching the sunrise as I emerged from Cedar Canyon. From my house I ran 2 miles to Cedar Canyon, plus an additional 4 miles up the canyon. I stayed right at 7:00/mile pace, but returning was a different story with the downhill. I kept things on the "slow" side until I got back into town, then I wanted to see what kind of leg turnover I had. Mile 9 was 5:37, mile 10 in 4:57. It felt great to open up the stride a bit. Couple more easy miles to end the run.

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Comments

From wheakory on Fri, May 23, 2008 at 00:15:12

Very nice way to end the run today by opening it up. Your definitely back in the training mode. Good training stuff today along with a beautiful run.

From Little Bad Legs on Fri, May 23, 2008 at 00:25:20

Thanks Kory. I'm not sure where I'm going with my training right now. For the past couple years I've done most of my training right around 6:00/mile pace. After my "crash and burn" marathon a few weeks back, I'm trying to slow things down some and maybe get some more miles under my belt. Who knows though. I just can't see me ever reaching 60+ mpw...

From wheakory on Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:41:58

I thought the samething a few years ago and now I consider 60 to be low. The key is to reduce your pace and get in some good aerobic base miles. If your constantly doing speed runs this with tear down your nervous system and make you fatigue, and this won't allow you to do higher mile weeks.

If you have time try doing this. Run 10 miles 6 days in a row at a 7:30 pace.

What's your current highest mile week?

With how fast you are and if you train right I believe you could be a 2:30 marathoner. Once you've build up to 60 miles than take one of those days and run a tempo run or speed work, but the keep is to build your endurance. I hope this helps and it may be stuff you already know. It doesn't hurt to get advice, because I ask for it all the time.

From Little Bad Legs on Sun, May 25, 2008 at 16:03:40

Kory, My highest weekly mileage was about 1 month ago @ 50 miles. In high school and college, any time I ran over 40 miles/week, my body would break down and I'd get injured. I seem to be holding up alright in the high-40's/low-50's. From this point on, it's going to come down to time to train.

I'll keep slowly uping the mileage for a while now and see what happens...

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