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Wednesday morning class – a new member

Hi Cynthia,

I will be joining your Austin Marathon training group on Wednesday morning. I know I’m a bit late in starting, but I was on vacation until now. I’m a average gray-haired old guy who likes to run. Also over the past few years I’ve had some issues and have gained some weight. As a result I continue to get slower and slower, but that’s the cycle-of-life. I’ve been running 3 miles per weekday and 10 miles on the weekend. So my goal is to get some exercise and to lose some weight. Although I’ve run a marathon before I consider myself just a beginner. In other words I have no pace or time requirement – just to complete is good enough. I hope this helps you get to know me a bit.

See you this Saturday at 7 AM downtown for my first long run and on each Wednesday mornings at 5:30 AM at Anderson High School track for the work out.

Sincerely,
Brian “Bri” Watt

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Running log week of 2011-03-13

5 weeks to Boston – Low mileage week
03/13 – Sunday – off
03/14 – Monday – Neighborhood – ? miles – ? minutes
03/15 – Tuesday – Class – ? miles – ? minutes
03/16 – Wednesday – Neighborhood – ? miles – ? minutes
03/17 – Thursday – Class – ? miles – ? minutes
03/18 – Friday – Neighborhood – ? miles – ? minutes
03/19 – Saturday – Long Run – ? miles – ? minutes
Weekly mileage: Expected 35, Actual ? miles
Shoe mileage: 223.4+?=? miles

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Running log week of 2011-03-06

6 weeks to Boston – High mileage week
03/06 – Sunday – off
03/07 – Monday – Neighborhood – 6.0 miles – 62 minutes
03/08 – Tuesday – Class – 9.3 miles – 86 minutes
03/09 – Wednesday – Neighborhood – 6.0 miles – 64 minutes
03/10 – Thursday – Class – 8.0 miles – 81 minutes
03/11 – Friday – Neighborhood – 4.1 miles – 49 minutes
03/12 – Saturday – Long Run – 18.0 miles – 181 minutes
Weekly mileage: Expected 50, Actual 51.4 miles
Shoe mileage: 223.4 miles

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Running log week of 2011-02-27

7 weeks to Boston – High mileage week
02/27 – Sunday – Neighborhood – 3.2 miles – 35 minutes
02/28 – Monday – Neighborhood – 6.4 miles – 64 minutes
03/01 – Tuesday – Class – 8.3 miles – 79 minutes
03/02 – Wednesday – Neighborhood – 6.0 miles – 70 minutes
03/03 – Thursday – Class – 8.3 miles – 87 minutes
03/04 – Friday – Neighborhood – 3.2 miles – 37 minutes
03/05 – Saturday – Long Run – 15.0 miles – 143 minutes
Weekly mileage: Expected 50, Actual 50.4 miles
Shoe mileage: 172.0 miles

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Race Prep Results

3/5/2011
John,

OK, here is what I did today. I started out immediately since I only needed 15 m. So no warm-up for me. Most everyone else went right at the corner and I went left – up the hill and into the wind. Without a firm pace my start-up set the pace, in other words, what will be will be. I was trying to keep it about 10 min/mile – slow I know and not BQ qualifying (@9:06), but that was my plan for today. I wanted to see how I’d do over the distance and at a consistent pace (whatever it was). I did stop at the restroom at mile 3, and at mile 10 for water otherwise I ran the rest straight. After the stop at mile 3 I missed up and forgot to start my Garmin for about .9 mile which frustrated me since I really wanted to know each mile’s split. I ran with my iPod so if I ignored you at mile 5 that’s why.
Here is my Garmin output

1 00:09:47 1.00 09:47
2 00:09:07 1.00 09:07
3 00:08:53 1.00 08:53

4 00:09:07 1.00 09:07
5 00:09:46 1.00 09:46
6 00:09:22 1.00 09:22
7 00:09:07 1.00 09:07
8 00:09:07 1.00 09:07
9 00:09:19 1.00 09:20
10 00:10:42 1.00 10:42 <== includes water stop at mile 10 11 00:09:50 1.00 09:50 12 00:09:25 1.00 09:25 13 00:08:59 1.00 08:59 14 00:09:23 1.00 09:23 15 00:01:14 0.14 09:01 My average pace was about 9:30 min/mile. My ankle/heel didn't really bother me. I took an Advil beforehand. My groin developed over time (a burning sensation) but I just tried to ignore it. I am worried that it will get worse and worse over the distance especially in Boston at the hills at the end. I'm trying to do what everyone else is doing within bounds. Personally I think I'm doing it. Overall it was a good day even with the wind and the chill. Bri

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A Good Morning

3/1/2011
John,

My warmup of 3 miles was good (9:53, 9:06, 9:03). First 3 mile loop was good and faster (8:43, 8:29, 8:20). Last mile (8:14). I didn’t do the last two miles, because of my 8 mile limit for today and jogged slowly back to Rogue. Having no specific pace I continue to judge myself against my 4 hour BQ pace. So today I did two at MGP (9:10 or better), two at HMGP (8:42 or better), and two at 10K (about 8:13). So I’m feeling better about this. I probably should have pushed to complete the last two miles, but that’s good enough for now…

Bri

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Last Week

2/27/2011
Hi John,

Two weeks ago was my down week, and last week I tried to do what everyone else was told to do with some modifications/simplifications.

Sunday – off (my wife and I were the support crew for my daughter who completed her first marathon)
Monday – 6.1 miles
Tuesday – 7.8 miles (5 hill repeats instead of 10, but went longer up to Milan, afterwards ran to Capitol and back)
Wednesday – 6 miles
Thursday – 9.7 miles (warmed up to pflugerville bridge and the rock, did 2 1/2 Zilker loops at 10K pace, cooled down to Deep Eddy Pool, didn’t do 5 by 1K)
Friday – off
Saturday – 16.7 miles (went longer than others, avg pace 10:38)

Total mileage: 46.3

Overall, there have been good times and other times. The right tendonitis is still there, but if I stretch it ahead of time I can manage it. My groin is also still there. I also took an Advil on Saturday to help. I am doing core exercises and rollers most nights.

Here is my current plan. I expect to continue the plan we set up earlier although I’m a bit ahead of schedule by about 5 miles per week. I’m also working 3 weeks up and then 1 week down.

Week of February 27 (7 weeks to go) 18 mile long run – 50 miles
Week of March 6 (6 weeks to go) 20 mile long run – 50 miles
Week of March 13 (5 weeks to go) 12 miles long run – 30 miles
Week of March 20 (4 weeks to go) 18 mile long run – 50 miles
Week of March 27 (3 weeks to go) 20 mile long run – 50 miles – Cap10K
Week of April 3 (2 weeks to go) 22 mile long run – 50 miles
Week of April 10 (1 weeks to go) no long run – 30 miles

Went to see Tana on Tuesday, and we’ve agreed mutually that my injuries are overtraining related and there isn’t much she can do for them. So we’ve stopped with the massage therapy.

Bri