Zach M.

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Location:

San Anselmo,CA,United States

Member Since:

Jul 31, 2015

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

After one year of running I ran a local half marathon as my first race and ran it again this year after two years of running.

My time was 1 hr 50 min compared to 2 hrs 11 min last year and pace increased from 10:02 to 8:25. The progress feels good but there's lots of room for improvement.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Maintain base mileage and add a few miles a month.

Long-Term Running Goals:

I want to stay healthy and continue making progress.

Personal:

My wife and I have one son in kindergarten. 
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Thu, Aug 06, 2015
Total Distance
4.05

4 miles GA pace.

Comments
From Jon on Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 18:59:09 from 107.203.52.135

Just wondering, what is GA pace?

From ZachM on Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 19:07:15 from 107.77.75.30

General aerobic. I'm following a base building plan from Pfitzinger's Faster Road Racing and he says they should be conversational but not feel like a jog. Really it's just easy pace or maybe slightly faster.

From Jon on Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 18:30:27 from 107.203.52.135

Ahh- I'm a huge Pfitzinger fan. His Advanced Marathoning was a big help to me, along with incorporating Big Workout concepts from Tinman (see the Discussion Forum if you want to know more about BW)

From ZachM on Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 19:06:24 from 67.164.59.166

Yeah, I read Advanced Marathoning but his 18/55 plan looked like too much for me because the weekly mileage was so much more mileage than I was doing at the time.

Faster Road Racing has plans that start at lower mileage for base building and distances up to the half marathon and it's probably been the most helpful training guide I've seen.

I'll check out Tinman, I hadn't heard of him before.

From Jon on Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 19:14:46 from 107.203.52.135

Tinman's Big Workouts are pretty advanced- you'd want to be fairly high mileage (60 mpw or so) but can really help with marathon times. Good link here:

http://fastrunningblog.com/forum/index.php/topic,1076.0.html

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