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Location:

Milton,GA,USA

Member Since:

Jul 27, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PR's -

Mile - 4:38    (High School)

2 Mile - 10:12 (High School) 

3 mile - 15:51 (High School)

10k - 35:19 (High School)

Marathon - 2:59 marathon (London -2013)

Half marathon - 1:25:18 (Deseret News 2013)

Completed all 6 of the World Marathon Majors 2024

Completed each of the 5 majors (NY, Chicago, Boston, London & Berlin) at least twice.

8 x Boston Marathon (1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2020 (virtual due to covid) 2021, 2022)

13 x NYC Marathon (1997, 1998, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 3 hour marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Continue to enjoy running and racing as long as my body permits me.  

Personal:

Old guy - (grandfather even) been running for 40+ years.  

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Miles:This week: 26.00 Month: 51.25 Year: 1473.15
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.750.000.000.003.75

AM - 3.75 miles more or less with Dan and Finn on the Milton Trail.   Wanted to keep it easy and short with Chicago on Sunday.   My plan is to run with whatever Richie feels like doing.  Lately, he's been in the mindset and fitness effort of running at 9 min pace for for the last few marathons as he works his way back to full fitness.  I think he is hesitant to push the limit given the TIA he had in Boston a couple of years ago now.   Looking at his Strava logs - he's done a decent amount of training, but not too many fast miles and the last couple of weeks with two hurricanes impacting his home - he's had more important things than running to deal with.  So I suspect that's the pace we will be running on Sunday.

I actually feel as though I could run much faster than that - assuming race conditions are good and I feel strong.  But at this point in my running / marathon racing - it is more about the social experience.  We don't run these races together to separate from each other as soon as the gun goes off...mostly we run together for as long as we can.  Sometimes one or both of us (or group of us) is nursing an injury or illness - and so we run at the pace that works for everyone.  Sometimes that means we don't necessarily finish together if things start to fall apart in the later miles but that's ok too.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.250.000.000.003.25

AM - 3.25 miles very early before a flight back to ATL.  Very quick pace again. Really liking this.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

AM - 4 miles from the hotel into Central Park again - pace has been easy but much faster than usual.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.750.000.000.006.75

AM - 6.75 miles from my hotel up Lexington to around 79th and over to the Park at the Met and around the reservoir back down on the west side.  Ran very well today - felt very little achiness and my pace the last few miles was sub 8 but at an HR effort that was only in the 140's.  I think 2 things contributed to this:  Statin holiday (day 2) and the temps were fall-like and dry in the lower 50s.   Plus I got over 8 hours of sleep.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

AM - in NYC for business - got in yesterday evening.  Began the run very easy - had a couple of bumpy steps with the outside of the left foot - but just ran easy and smoothly - and had a decent run today - most achiness was gone by the end and I felt pleased with the low HR and decent pace. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.250.000.000.004.25

AM - 4.25 miles with Dan and Finn early before church.  Lots of aches and pains - Might be the Covid or Flu vaccine that I got yesterday or the Zetia I tried to resume yesterday - either way I am gonna take a zetia / statin holiday for a week or so leading up to Chicago.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
26.000.000.000.0026.00
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