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Location:

Middle Grove,NY,

Member Since:

Nov 01, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Finished two marathons before my 21st birthday this year (5.28.07),
First Marathon - 10/08/06 - Mohawk Hudson River Marathon 4:26:57,
Second Marathon - 5/27/07 - Vermont City Marathon 4:32:xx

Personal Bests:

  • 400 - 1:01 (2004)
  • 800 - 2:16 (2004)
  • Mile - 5:12 (2004)
  • 2Mile - 11:27 (2004)
  • 5k - 19:44 (2005)
  • 10k 40:46 (11/22/07)
  • 15k - 1:07:40 (11/11/07)
  • 13.11 Half - 1:38:31 (12/9/07)
  • Marathon 4:26:57 (2006)

Gave up soda starting November 23, 2006. Still going strong.
Eagle Scout with Bronze and Gold Palms (2002)

Biked from Ticonderoga, New York to Old Orchard Beach, Maine in August of 2005 (Total of about 290 miles)

Short-Term Running Goals:

  • Be able to run more than 3 miles pain free again.
  • Eliminate processed foods from my diet.
  • Increased Focus on Core Strength Exercises.
  • No Eating After 8:00pm!
  • Get more sleep.
  • Most importantly, Think POSITIVE!!!

50 MILE and 100 MILE bike rides before the end of the year!

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Be able to lace up my shoes and head out the door into my 70s, 80s, and 90s. Would like to do a marathon in as many states and countries as I can.

  • Break 19 minutes for a 5k
  • Break 39 minutes for a 10k
  • Break 60 minutes for a 15k
  • Break 1:40 for a half marathon
  • Break 1:33 for half marathon
  • Under 3:10:59 in full marathon (*BQ)

QUALIFY FOR AND RUN IN THE BOSTON MARATHON!!!!!

Run a TRAIL Marathon as well as at least one 50 or 100 MILER in my life!


Personal:

"Just Race" - Jonn during Stockade-athon 15k 11.11.2007

"Get out the door and let the run happen." - Sasha

**Trying hard to live up to both of these goals!** Determined to finish more marathons, and hopefully a 50miler one day!

 

 

I live in upstate NY. I am the oldest of four kids. I've been running since the spring of 2003 when I decided to shed some extra weight and maybe go out for my high school cross country team. Currently am doing MS in Education. Hope to teach Social Studies one day. I have the most amazing girlfriend ever, and she frequently goes running/jogging/hiking with me. Going to marry her one day :)

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Wed, Apr 23, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.500.000.000.000.003.50

2:00 PM - After five days in Pittsfield, I had to give a goodbye hug and kiss to Emma and reluctantly come back to New York, as I had work from 4 to midnight tonight. Got home at 2 and I have to leave by about quarter after 3 to get to work on time, so I decided rather than unpack, I would hop on the treadmill.  Did a 5 minute warm up walk, eased into 3 miles of steady, painfree jogging, and then ended with a short cool down walk and stretching. Then headed off to work. My achilles feels fine and pain free after all the bumps and bruises from this weeks hiking! I really want to plan out a marathon training plan but I just don't know if it's simply "too early"; I know that Sasha often suggests to people to get up to 6 miles a day for 6 days a week before starting to even think about long runs.  Should I start to try to shoot for 4 miles of jogging at a time for 5 times a week at first? and then go from there? I think I had about 17 miles of jogging last week.

Total Time: 38:00 Total Mileage: 3.5 miles Average Pace: 10:51

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR AWESOME FRBloggers WHO WENT OUT AND COMPETED THIS WEEK. I'M TRULY SORRY IF I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO COMMENT ON YOUR RACE REPORT YET, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S FALLEN ON DEAF EARS (OR EYES?). I look forward to reading more of your blogs in the coming weeks, after school crazyness dies down.  And I am also anxiously awaiting news to be able to run in St. George Marathon 2008!! Yay! Keep on truckin' friends!!

Comments
From Jody on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:22:40

Welcome Back! Glad you had a good vacation. Glad you are okay!

From MichelleL on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:52:29

Hey Benn,

Can you remind me how long it has been since you started up your jogging again, and how long since you felt pain?

From Benn on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:19:55

Hey Michelle - from what I can ascertain from my log the first day back was March 11th with a .25 mile "shuffle" @ 15:00 pace (actually the current pace that I do my warmups and cooldowns at now). I luckily haven't had any pains so far since I started incorporating the jogging after my Dr.'s appointment about 5 wks ago, but I've been very slowly building back up. I'd say for the last time I felt pain would be about the same time. I had a little tenderness the week that I went to the Dr.'s when I was on my feet for the 8+ hours at work, but I kept the heel lift in which really helped. Also I've found that something that I was arguably lacking in the couple months leading up to my injury was religious stretching. I used to be very good with 5-10 minutes before each run and 15 or so after each run. My mistake was that by eliminating track workouts and just doing 6-8 mile runs and a long run of 12-14 miles, I thought that I didn't necessarily need as much stretching and that I would "warmup " on the fly. Now I am back to how I was before I injured myself. I stretch about 5 mins after the warmup and then 10-15 after the conclusion of every run/walk/shuffle/hike. Yeah it might seem dumb to some people, but I have a new respect for stretching.

So, I guess it's been 6wks since all major pain was gone now. Sorry for the winded answer.

Benn

From paula on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:30:45

Welcome back me and Jody were wondering where you disappeared to. That will be nice if you can do the St George marathon.

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