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Gasparilla Half Marathon

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2008
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Location:

Tampa,FL,

Member Since:

Feb 02, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Unknown

Running Accomplishments:

I have been running off and on for over 25 years and competed in over 100 races including 7 marathons and 8 half-marathons.

PR's:

  • Marathon 3:39
  • Half-marathon 1:37
  • 15k 1:06
  • 10k 42:00? (it was 42 something but not sure, it was a while ago)
  • 5k 20:14

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

My primary goal right now is to qualify for the Boston Marathon. My age group qualifying time is 3:30:59.  I finished this years Disney Marathon in 3:39:10.  My next marathon will be the Chicago Marathon in October.

Long-Term Running Goals:

At this point I just want to continually improve my times.  Really long term goal is to remain competitive in what ever age group I'm in.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
66.509.507.000.0083.00
Night Sleep Time: 27.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 27.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.500.000.000.004.50

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.500.000.000.0012.50

good run today

last long run before next weeks 1/2 marathon

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From MichelleL on Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 18:02:43

Welcome to the blog! We would love to get more information in your bio which is the strip below your picture. What 1/2 are you targeting, is it your first?

From Kelly on Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 23:41:38

Welcome to FRB! I look forward to reading your report from the half.

From Fredrick Teichert on Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:00:23

Good luck in the half, wherever it is! Hopefully it's somewhere in Florida and you'll only have to worry about hurricanes and maybe a little rain... not snow and high winds. Welcome to the blog.

From Mark on Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 07:29:18

I'll be running the Gasparilla half-marathon in Tampa this Sunday.

http://www.tampabayrun.com/home_page.htm

This will be my last long race for a while as I will focus on 5k's. My only goal for this race is to run a sub 1:36 so I can move up from the C to the B start group in the Chicago Marathon. It looks like the weather might corporate this year. Race start should be in the low 50's (in FL we worry about it being too hot/humid)

From Benn on Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:39:41

Oh I didn't know that the big races did that for start times? I had heard about wave starts and stuff. But does Boston do that as well then?

From Mark on Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:31:07

Hi, this is the "real" Mark, lol!

Welcome to the blog, I saw the comments because my blog address was entered above. Good luck at Gasparilla. I'm going to be running it also but at a slower pace. I did Chicago this past fall and think that is definitely a smart move to try to move from C to B.

Good to see another Florida person here. I live up in the New Port Richey area.

From Dave Holt on Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 13:46:08

Welcome - good luck in your upcoming race.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.500.000.000.004.50

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.500.000.000.008.50

So much for an easy run.  My plan was to do 2 easy 5 mile runs on Tuesday and Thursday as I get ready for Sundays half. I felt so good early in the run that I finished the last 5 miles at race pace.  I'm not sure if this was a good or bad thing to do.  I do know that I can't do this on my Thursday run. The last thing I want to do is go into the race with tired legs.

I would be interested in hearing what kind of training people do the week before a marathon or half. 

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

 

Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00
Race: Gasparilla Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:37:15, Place overall: 151, Place in age division: 15
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.000.000.000.0014.00

I just missed my goal of sub 1:36 but I still finished the Gasparilla half in a new PR of 1:37:15.  I had something left at the end but I’m not sure it was enough to have run 1:15 faster.   I still have a long way to go but when I set a PR after almost every race I know I’m doing something right.

Overall it was another well run race. The start temp was in the low 50’s which is about perfect for me.  There was a little headwind when running north on Bayshore to the finish but it probably didn’t affect my time more than a few seconds.   

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
Comments
From Benn on Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 13:36:49

Congratulations on the new Half PR! Great race.

From Lybi on Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:08:47

Great Job! So you are a PR setting machine, eh? Keep it up!

From MichelleL on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 18:13:49

Congratulations on your PR! Next time pick it up with several miles to go if you are feeling good, you never want to leave gas in the tank when there is a race.

From Brent on Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 23:09:54

Sweet PR to improve on. 200 commando points for the PR.

From reading your running resume, you have the experience and base to get much faster if you are ready make it happen.

Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.500.000.000.004.50

I'm starting my 5k training now. 2 days after my half marathon and the legs felt great. I ran 2.5 of my 4.5 at 5k pace.  

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
Comments
From Lybi on Fri, May 16, 2008 at 23:14:06

So have you run that 5K yet? What race are you preparing for? Hope all is well in Ribbieland. :) Let us know how you're doing, would ya?

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.500.007.000.008.50

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.250.000.000.003.25

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.259.500.000.0011.75

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
66.509.507.000.0083.00
Night Sleep Time: 27.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 27.50
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