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Location:

Laredo,TX,USA

Member Since:

Nov 28, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

 

Personal Records:

Rice Invitational 1999 5k 15:08

UTSA Invitational 8k 24:54

Guajolote 10k 1999 31:16

3M Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:09:18

La Salle Chicago Marathon 2006 2:31:23

Eugene Marathon 2010 2:30:48 

Boston Marathon 2011 2:28:01 

 

Marathons:

2005 Austin Motorola Marathon 2:39:16

2006 Austin Freescale Marathon 2:32:32

2006 Chicago Marathon 2:31:23

2007 Greenbay Cellcom Marathon 2:32:39

2007 Fiesta Marathon 2:39:41

2008 Rock and Roll Marathon 2:45:20

2010 Little Rock Marathon March 7 2:33:59 

2010 Eugene Marathon May 2 2:30:48 

2010 San Antonio Rock and Roll Marathon Nov 14 2:36:57

2010 Fiesta Marathon McAllen, Texas Dec 12 2:39:29

2011 Boston Marathon April 18 2:28:01 

2011 Fiesta Marathon McAllen, Texas Dec 11 2:40:18

2012 Houston Marathon Houston, Texas January 15 2:39:18 

 

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 1:10 for Half Marathon and Sub 2:30 for marathon

 

 3M Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:09:18

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IBM 3M Half Marathon 1/24/10

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

I want to accomplish my short term goals first... Once I do that, I will have an idea of what to expect long term... 44 yrs old now and since I've been injured free for 1 month I am jumping back on marathon training. Any recommendations for a good marathon in December 2021? What is your recommendation?

Personal:

Don't knock it until you try it.

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So I took off at 6:50 PM for a tempo. It wasn’t raining when I started running it started to drizzle 30 minutes and it started to pour at 45 mins into the run. I headed down hillside and into the neighborhood right in front of Autozone. I did an eight mile warm-up and then the tempo 6:02, 5:57, 5:56, 6:02, 5:56. I was supposed to run a 7 mile tempo but I shut it down at 5, I was slipping while running through ankle high water. My hamstrings got a bit tight my last 2 miles were at 8:57 and 8:37 ending a 15 miler. I should have just scratched this run off. I still did it, but it suck!

 

15 miles at 7:19 mile pace

 

I guess better luck next time.

 

50°F | °C
Current: Rain
Wind: N at 12 mph

Humidity: 94% 

Comments
From Samantha Dean-Howard on Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 16:59:09 from 90.201.147.190

Wow well done for toughing it out thats awesome, those tempo miles will be worth more than 5 miles as the water was quite deep !

awesome well done

From Benny's on Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 22:53:17 from 24.174.249.108

Sam the sweater and my windbreaker were holding me down. I felt I was carrying 10 lbs of water on me! Ha! It was ok!

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