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Location:

Mexico

Member Since:

Oct 20, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Times:

5k 22:10 (part of 10k race)

8k 36:59 (8 Columnas 2009)

10k 45:12 (Imagen Gdl 2009)

21k: 1:43:45 (21k Atlas 2009)

42k: 4:00:02 (42k Monterrey 2013)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Its been a while since I updated this, but my short-term running goals are simple: to keep running.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Long term...mmm...hard one, just continue running and having the luck a running races to keep on the edge, every so often.

Personal:

Born 1969; Happily married with my beautiful wife Lety, and have two wonderful daughters.

Book lover & seller (work a bookstore).

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Asics Cumulus 13 Lifetime Miles:						606.16
Brooks Launch Lifetime Miles:						774.85
Brooks Defyance Lifetime Miles:						646.21
Brooks Pure Connect Lifetime Miles:						771.98
Saucony Hattori Lifetime Miles:						250.12
Saucony Kinvara 3 Lifetime Miles:						591.16
Brooks Launch White Lifetime Miles:						439.82
Brooks PureConnect2 Red Lifetime Miles:						175.69
Asics Kayano 20 Lifetime Miles:						406.53
Brooks Cascadia 9 Lifetime Miles:						46.49
Fuji Roubaix 1.5 Bike Lifetime Miles:						198.47
Saucony Kinvara 4 Blue Lifetime Miles:						47.57
Nike Free Flyknit 4 Lifetime Miles:						0.00

Tue, Jul 28, 2009

Running Miles	Swimming Yards	Bike Miles
4.50	0.00	0.00

Asics Cumulus 10 Miles: 4.50

Comments

From seeaprilrun on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:22:04 from 68.102.144.140

Wow Eric tough run! Just keep being consistent--your lungs will heal more from the smoking and your body will learn to sync up the breathing--good that you run well by feel!

From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:45:24 from 192.168.1.1

OK good to know. Congratulations on a sub-6:30 mile. The reason you could not go longer was not the lack of speed work. You still lack aerobic fitness. Which is to be expected at this point.

I think it would be safe to go out at about 4:40 per K pace in the half.

Training wise just continue to run base mileage. Then we will see how your races go one race at a time and re-evaluate.

From Nevels on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 13:04:06 from 131.204.15.93

I'm with Sasha on this one.

Keep building up the base. This was a great diagnostic run to see where you are, and after a few more weeks (maybe a month or two), another diagnostic could be run to gauge the improvement in your fitness.

Once you get to a point at which you feel your aerobic fitness has reached an acceptable level (a point that can and should be defined by you, given that you could run base aerobic mileage indefinitely), implementing regular speedwork of gradually increasing intensity will be the next step.

Solid run, and congrats on the fast mile...

From seeaprilrun on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 13:59:39 from 205.172.12.229

I think you will be pleasantly surprised at how much improvement you will see in a few short months if you continue with your current mileage and consistency!

From Eric Day on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 17:34:47 from 200.77.37.197

April, thanks for the encouragement. Legs felt fine, its was all in the breathing, I could not get into mode to synchronize breathing and running (this I do in my run and help me control my breathing).

Sasha, thanks for the evaluation. I understand the lack of fitness because of base mileage and will continue to work on this the rest of the year. 4:40 pace, that would be about a 1:38 HM right? Sounds do-able, will give best shot, maybe by then I'll be in a little bit of better shape.

Nevels, thanks for your comments. Will try putting some speedwork gradually into program once my HM is done (first week of september). By then I should be doing the 10 daily miles (hopefully).

I'm also very happy that I ran by "feeling" other than "Garmin". My wife used a normal stopwatch to take times.

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