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"

 

 

Vinh's Power Songs
Pitbull feat Akon - Shut it down
DJ Khaled - All I do is win
Ludacris - How low can you go
TI - Big Things Poppin
Kanye - Amazing

 

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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Sorry I haven't been FRB lately. Been kinda busy and also feeling a lil sick the past several days. I need to catch up on everyone's blogs/comments. I promise I'll do it tomorrow at work =) So I wasn't feeling good enough to run yesterday...but felt much better today. I decided to only run 9 b/c I felt that I had my pace down the last 5 miles and just wanted to hold back and save it for the race. The run didn't start off to great tho. I still have problems holding back the first few miles. I ran the first mile in 8:04 and the next two were 7:44, 7:48. What is wrong with me? I wanted hit the first mile in 8:15 and the next two around 8:05. I also tied my left shoe a lil too tight and my foot was going numb. After mile 4, I got into the groove and hit the paces that I wanted (w/o lookin at the watch) which was around 7:50-8:00. Anyway, I hope everyone had a great weekend. I will hit everyone up tomorrow. I promise!

Total time - 1:11:24 (avg pace 7:56)

Comments
From Samantha Dean-Howard on Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 07:52:13 from 78.32.130.9

Hey ok Vinh, the race marathon is this Sat the 13th, wow hope you are feeling better, you may feel somewhat sore tapering, everyone gets tapering niggles! :)

From Michelle on Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:22:01 from 97.122.164.68

I hope you are feeling better today. You are just itching with speed! Good luck with this week and your final preparations for the marathon.

From Burt on Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 14:23:24 from 206.19.214.144

We forgive you Vinh. Of course we've all taken you off our Favorite Blogs list.

From vinh on Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 06:46:35 from 75.77.22.187

Sam - how do you usually taper?

Michelle - Thanks, feeling much better. I'm hoping for a great week! Hope you have one as well.

Burt - It's all good...I'll still have everyone on mine =) Don't you have a race coming up this month?

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