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
10.0031.001.000.000.0042.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.009.000.000.000.009.00

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(4)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.005.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles @ 8:10 pace. a bit windy today

Comments(14)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.001.000.000.000.005.00

5 short easy miles. tapering is no fun.

Comments(13)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.000.000.000.002.00

EZ 2 miles. Will report about the race tomorrow =) 

Update: So it is freakin snowing here in Myrtle Beach. As of right now the race is delayed half an hour, but it may be pushed back or even cancelled =( It's not snowing bad or anything but it hardly ever snows here and people are freaking out. Will update if anything changes. Thanks for all the comments so far. I will reply soon!

Comments(13)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.0016.001.000.000.0018.00

Sorry everyone but the race was cancelled due to the snow. I've been pretty upset all day. I will reply to everyone soon. However, I did run today out of frustration.

Ran 18 miles total, no water or gu.

First 17 miles avg 8:00 flat pace, mile 17 was 7:06

1 cool down mile

A lil bit windy on the way back...

Wish I could have had a race report for everyone

Comments(15)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.0031.001.000.000.0042.00
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