A Passion for Running

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a good albeit sickly kind of run + a prediction

passion for running category: running on Sunday, September 30 2007

I just came back from a run that was designed to shake this head cold loose. While I’m not certain it worked, it didn’t seem to have done any harm. Besides that, you can never go wrong with some endorphins floating around in your blood. Right?

Especially with being sick, I was impressed with the pace for this easy run – 7:50 min/mile for 60 minutes. Over the past ten or so months, my paces have steadily dropped. I still remember when “easy” was nine or more minutes per mile.

I’m going to go out on a limb and predict something. Within the next year, I am guessing that:

1. My easy training pace will become 7:30ish minutes per mile, and
2. My hard training pace will become 7:00 minutes per mile.

You heard it here first!




7 Comments

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Comment by jank

Sunday September 30, 2007 @

Mark, I can remember when your “easy” training pace was 9 minutes/mile. Sorry to hear you’re under the weather.

BTW – why no PR Red Deer marathon T-Shirt for the author pic?

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Comment by Runner (aka La Lynx)

Monday October 01, 2007 @

Very impressive, Mark! It’s great when you can see results from all the hard work!!

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Comment by Tea

Monday October 01, 2007 @

YOU.ARE.MY.HERO.

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Comment by Rus

Tuesday October 02, 2007 @

Sorry Man but I doubt 30 sec gap would be a good “delimitation zone”. I had (and still have) HR check zones: 140 – 150 EZ, 150 + Hard. I could be wrong, but if i have to restore during my EZ run, I’m not embarrassed to make 8:50-9:00 miles (actually now it’s 8:00 – 8:30). Just I see a tiny difference between 1 hour @ 7:00 and 7:30, almost the same for me.

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Comment by Jennifer

Sunday October 07, 2007 @

Hi Mark,
I’m impressed to see that easy pace come down so much. But it confuses me that you think the hard training pace (tempo pace?) will be only 30 sec/mile faster. I think in kilomters, and that’s only 20 sec/km. The difference between my easy and hard pace is almost about 90 sec/km, or about 2 min/mile.

Daniels agrees with me.

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Comment by Lei

Sunday October 14, 2007 @

Wow, that is cool progress. Keep up the great work!

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Comment by Israel

Monday October 15, 2007 @

how do you manage to run so much and not wear down your knees?

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