AZ Run Dad

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Location:

AZ,

Member Since:

Mar 10, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Personal Records:

5k: 15:38 2014 Carlsbad 5000

10k: 33:06 2012 Mesa Turkey Trot

Half Marathon: 1:11:40 2013 Eugene Half Marathon

Marathon 2:32:14 2012 Tucson Marathon

Short-Term Running Goals:

Eugene Half Marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 15:30 5k

Sub 1:10 Half Marathon

Sub 2:30 Marathon

Personal:

Husband to speedy wife Allison and father to Camryn (7) and Brandon (5). Graduate of Weber State University where I played on the tennis team. I love to run, help others get faster, and always learn about the sport I love. My wife Allison and I have a blog called AZ Parents on the Run about our running lives with kids.

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Wed, Aug 29, 2012

Total Distance

8.46

Easy 8 + strides today. Started off slower than normal and ended a little faster than normal for an easy day. As usual, it felt great to loosen up my legs with strides.

I wrote a post on our blog about increasing mileage and being careful not to "chase" high mileage. Worth a read if your thinking about increasing mileage.

http://www.azparentsontherun.com/2012/08/chasing-miles.html

Comments

From Jake K on Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 16:28:11 from 155.100.226.191

I'll run less than 25 today in honor of your blog post :-)

From RileyCook on Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 16:32:18 from 132.3.57.68

Very good blog post. I am in the process of running my highest mileage ever and it's definitely a juggling and balancing act. You try to get high miles, but you don't want to overdo it. What you wrote was great and the only thing I would add would be knowing and checking your resting heart rate.

One way to "monitor" your training is checking your resting heart rate daily. If your RHR is elevated by a few beats, you may be overtraining and/or getting sick and you should back off.

From Jake K on Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 16:35:05 from 155.100.226.191

+1 on the resting heart rate check. I've been doing it every morning for about a year now. Once you've been doing it for a while, the numbers actually mean something. I can graph it and every time there is a little spike, it correlates with a really hard race or workout. Its a great indicator (or, at the very least, a warning signal to back off the intensity)

From Derek D on Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 16:59:14 from 68.109.130.51

Thanks Riley and good info on the resting heart rate.

Jake: you are exempt from all mileage limitations. You can do 30 today :)

From Andrea on Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 17:17:43 from 67.177.11.154

Great blog post - I completely agree! Everyone is different and there are so many other factors that are involved.

From Jason D on Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 18:04:20 from 24.1.80.94

Some great points, Derek, especially about the pressure of social media. Social media like this site is great in terms of figuring out what others are doing (what other runners around your same times or a bit faster say).

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