Jeff Banks

February 2008

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Member Since:

Oct 17, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

4.70 m pole vault

2:41:54 marathon

2:41:15 marathon (aided) 

1:16 half 

Short-Term Running Goals:

< 1:15 half

< 2:40 full

Long-Term Running Goals:

Give an honest effort to find my fastest marathon and half.

Personal:

Married, one kid, one cat

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Up through the high dessert arroyo and then over down past Tanoan. I had some stomach problems but managed to make it home ok.

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First run in Livermore. Its amazing how much oxygen there is when you come down 5000 feet in elevation!!

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Out for a second time through the streets in Dublin. The pavement and concrete is hard on my knees so I'll have to find some trails soon. Perhaps Morgan territory this weekend for a long run!!

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Still trying to find some longer runs around here and some routes that aren't on pavement. Still the oxygen and rolling hills feel good

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Found a longer run, but still all pavement. Running here is really beautiful once you get away from the houses! My legs feel OK but I'm worried about my knee still. Perhaps tomorrow will be nice enough to go out for a long ride instead of running.

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50 miles on the bike. It seems that I am not in very good biking shape, but this will be fixed. It felt really good to be out again and the top of Morgan Territory was beautiful.

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Still finding my way through the routes around here. It looks like I'm going to have to either run on the pavement or drive somewhere else to get very long runs in. After I got back I went ahead and did some light lifting and will probably be sore tomorrow.

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Running out of daylight and lost ... it always makes you run a little faster :).

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Out through the country club for five slow miles. I'm really trying to focus on proper form with the hope that it will save my knees in the long run. I suppose that running is never really a good way to save your knees but we can all dream can't we?

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Really windy but I found a new route that opened up through a new neighborhood. Tomorrow I'll have to try it out.

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Nice long run ...

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Feels good to stride out a bit, but I'm going to have to start putting in more miles.

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Cara came into town for a visit so no running ... we went out for about a 5 mile hike just to keep the blood flowing though.

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Cara and I went to the zoo and walked all around. Probably went 8 miles on our feel but no running.

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On the bike for 3:20 minutes with ~3500 feet of climbing. To the top of Diablo and it was beautiful! Kind of ran myself out of steam though because I've not been riding very many miles lately.

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Seven easy miles in the rain ... Legs were somewhat tired from riding yesterday, but feeling pretty good.

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8.000.000.000.008.00

Out exploring new trails, but ended up mostly on the roads. Still I feel pretty good and my knee seems to be completely better ... good good.

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6.000.000.000.006.00

Slow miles just before the rain. The humidity is AWESOME!!

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9.000.000.000.009.00

Pretty cold today ... nice steady run to warm me up.

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13.000.000.000.0013.00

Today I felt like a runner. The cold rain almost made me stay inside, but in the end I made my way out and had a very nice run. I felt pretty good the whole way through, but the pace was pretty slow so that helped.

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I got an hour break in the rain and took advantage of it. Ran through Pleasanton and didn't really like all the stop lights etc ...

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Breaking in new shoes. They seem to be quite a lot less beat up than what I just retired, but still I'm probably going to get blisters.

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Just enough light in the day to make it 10 miles before it gets dark ... Felt pretty good and the new shoes are breaking in.

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I really didn't intend to go 10 today, but I got lost and the next thing I knew getting home in only 10 was a task. Oh well it was slow mileage and I finally feel like I'm starting to get in the appropriate base for some future training.

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Starting out I felt pretty spent and was taking it pretty slow, but around the 5 mile mark I finally started to feel pretty good. I found a trail up off the pavement and took advantage. Livermore is beautiful this time of year with the green grass really making the hills seem quite comforting. Then it was back into Dublin and my legs started to feel good so I finished the last 4 miles at a something like 6:15 pace. All in all a really good run.

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Kind of windy out and I needed a bit of a break. Still I went nine and it amazes me how running longer for even a few days makes a huge difference in what we consider shorter. I felt slugish at the start but got into it around 3 miles and felt good the rest of the way.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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