2010, My year to smash all of my PR's

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Location:

North Charleston,SC,USA

Member Since:

Nov 02, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

 

 3 mile (2007) in the Marines  19:00
 5k (Mar 2010) 19:53
 10k (May 2010)  42:06
 10 mile (Nov 2009)  1:15:47
 Half Marathon (Jan 2010)  1:37:57
Marathon (Oct 2010)

3:47:06

12 Hour Ultra (July 2010) 60.8 miles

Short-Term Running Goals:

Qu’est-ce que c’est? 12 h Run (Jul 4) Over 60 miles 60.8 miles

Run a marathon under 4 hours

Run a 5k under 19 minutes

St. George Marathon (Oct 2, 2010)

Myrtle Beach Marathon (Feb 19, 2011) 

Possible upcoming races:

Charleston Half Marathon (Jan 2011) Sub 1:32

2010 Goals:

- Run 2010 miles

- Do 2010 Pull ups (2010+)

- 20,100 Push ups/Sit Ups (20100 so far)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run a Boston Qualifier

Run an ultra marathon

Run a 100 miler

Run at least one marathon a year

Sub 5:20 mile

Sub 18:30 5k

Sub 38 10k

Sub 1:25 half

Sub 3 hour marathon

Badwater Ultra

Hurt 100

Bear 100

Moab 100

Wasatch 100

Umstead 100

Personal:

My name is Vinh Nguyen. I'm 28 years old, former Marine...

Started running when I joined the military in 1999. I did not enjoy running until 2006-7 when I started training for my first marathon. In the Marines, we ran an average of 3-5 miles. I never ran any distances longer than that until I started training for the Myrtle Beach Marathon in 2007.

Currently working as a government contractor (electronics technician).

I finished my Associates of Science in August and have finally been able to train hard full time. I decided to take time of school to see how much of a difference it will make and maybe hopefully achieve my goal and qualify for Boston.

 "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
"The only easy day was yesterday"

 

 

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DJ Khaled - All I do is win
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Today's run was suppose to be an easy 11 miler. I tried to take it easy the first few miles and realized that I was running a lil over an 8 min pace with relative ease. I decided to just to let my body run the pace it wanted to. I'll just log these as marathon pace miles.

mile 1 - 8:20

mile 2 - 8:10

mile 3 - 8:06

mile 4 - 7:58

mile 5 - 7:52

mile 6 - 7:54

mile 7 - 7:47

mile 8 - 7:47

mile 9 - 7:52

mile 10 - 7:41

mile 11 - 6:55 (decided to push it)

Time - 1:26:27  (7:51 pace)

Comments
From Burt on Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 14:04:23 from 12.231.112.98

Very nice, but there's one thing that's bothering me. You call yourself a former marine. I have a friend, Ox, that I work with who says once a marine, always a marine. Never a former marine. What do you have to say about that?

From vinh on Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 16:03:33 from 71.68.254.197

Thanks Burt! It is true that once you're a Marine, you're always a Marine. The only reason I put that I'm a former Marine is b/c I'm not active duty anymore. Just didn't want to confuse anybody..that's all.

From Sandy Dune-Howard on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:07:33 from 78.32.130.9

Heres Burt again LOL great run Vin those miles are nice and even too well done, and by those times your half marathon pr is due to be broken :-)

From vinh on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 06:40:48 from 75.77.22.187

Thanks Sandy! I plan to smash my last half marathon time lol, we'll see by how much...I'm thinking sub 1:40 now.

From Sandy Dune-Howard on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 07:13:21 from 78.32.130.9

Yeah as the adrenalin with races too, so I wreckon on a good day with good weather a sub 1.40 is on the cards for sure :-)

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