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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 7 of the World Marathon Majors 2025

Completed each of 5 majors (NY, Chicago, Boston, London & Berlin) at least twice. Completing Tokyo in 2024 and Sydney in its inaugural year 2025  

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

15 x NYC Marathon (1997, 1998, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025)

50 lifetime marathons (for which I am now retired)

 

 

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: 28.25 Month: 137.00 Year: 1446.15
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

AM - 5 miles in NYC up the Hudson River trail and back down through Riverside Park and West End.  Felt rough today. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.750.000.000.006.75

AM - in NYC for business - from my hotel in Hudson Yards I headed up 8th Ave to the park and though this was supposed to be an easy 5 mile run I ended up going close to 7 and maybe a little quick at the end.  Weather was cool and breezy and lots of runners were out.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.000.004.500.007.50

AM - Treadmill workout - 3 x 10 mins with a 3 min rest - 1.5 mile warm up and about 1 mile cool down.  Avg'd about 6:45 per mile in each 10 min interval and my HR was slotted at an avg of 154 for the three intervals.   My treadmill calibration was off by about 25 seconds per mile on the NPE Runn sensor feeding my Garmin, but Chat converted the paces to the above. I am not running 6:15 miles at my age but that's what it was showing.  I will adjust it before my next workout.  Travel today through Saturday. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

AM - met Dan and did a run/walk from his house, initially with Rosie, but she was having none of it less than a mile from his place, so we turned around and dropped her off and did mostly easy running and chatting with probably 4-5 walking breaks for his knee.  Got just a little over 4 miles in and then came back and did a mile on the treadmill to test out my recalibration efforts - which seem to have worked.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

AM - 4 miles easy recovery effort before church. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
23.750.004.500.0028.25
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