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Trying to qualify for Boston? A mileage vs. speed calculator
Boston Marathon Qualifying Times Chart and Predictor. An interesting take on calculators: For me: (for 100 miles per week) The slowest you can run and still qualify for the Boston Marathon is 3:10:59. This is a 7:17 per mile pace. If you train at 100 miles per week, you need to run a 5 K…
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Week 7 of the streak and injury analysis #twit2fit
Start of week 7 of the streak Given the usual madness of holiday weekends, I didn’t think the streak would survive this onslaught, but I not only got a run in, I managed to hit my target distance of 6.4 miles. Challenge #2: I woke up with a stiff back. Not a debilitating, keep me…
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40 days in a row #twit2fit
I’m still able to run today after running my 3×800 intervals yesterday @ 6:53 pace. I dropped down to 172 pounds from an average of well over 175, mainly from both lack of food and liquids yesterday. I wouldn’t recommend it. Today’s run was a 3.2 mile hill run at 3% incline on a Precor…