Bret

April 19, 2024

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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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AM - 6.5 miles easy around the perimeter of the campus of my alma mater.  Stiff and slow to start on a muggy morning before daylight.  I ran up 34th to Archer past Shands Hospital and then up 13th street to University.  Ran past my old dormatories and the impressive football stadium.  The football team was on the practice fields for training at 6:30 am - lights on, whistles tweeting out instructively.  Finally loosened up to a more normal pace about 4 miles into the run and so enjoyed the downhill next to the golf course where I once ran cross country meets in high school.  All in all, a very nostalgic morning.

 

PM - still very humid and close this afternoon.  I escaped from some orientation lectures and got in 11.50 miles.  Have to head back to dinner with them etc.  Kept thinking during the run how this town is the basis for the fictional college town written about in the book Once a Runner.  And that made my run better.

 

Comments
From Bam on Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 13:30:10 from 213.191.254.123

A pootle down memory lane. Must have been nice. I bet things have changed since you were galloping around campus. So, is your daughter attending the same college as you did, all those years back?

From Bret on Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 18:35:42 from 216.234.133.223

Bam - yes indeed things have changed and continue to change. This daughter and her older sister are both attending the same school as I did too many years ago. Both are Fighting Florida Gators -and though I never nudged them in that direction- it is pretty cool.

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