Bret

December 22, 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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 91.50 Year: 1815.45
Tue, Sep 03, 2013
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

PM -  4 miles after work in Atlanta - went out for a walk and did a little jogging with some light drills, high knees, backward jogging, side stepping etc. intersperced throughout.  The jogging part felt awkward as though my leg muscles were unfamiliar with the movement - did not feel like I could actually run just yet - still need time to get stronger and for everything heal up. Good progress though, I think.  Did PT strengthening excercises and stretching / self-massage afterwards.  

Comments
From Jason D on Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 19:10:51 from 24.1.80.94

Did they give you a sense of when you could start running, or is it a go by feel kind of thing as you did today? I honestly thought you wouldn't be moving around for a while.

From Bret on Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 19:58:26 from 166.205.68.26

Jason - yes the post-op recovery and rehab has a breakdown of the types of activity to reintroduce. They give ranges of days and say that it depends on the individual and everything is only done as tolerated. Between days 7-10 I can begin resistive exercises and do some light jogging.

At day 18 I can return to normal activities as tolerated.

I think I have been exceptionally fortunate in my progress so far. Certainly a ways from feeling normal - but was expecting a much slower recovery.

My goal is to strike a balance between trying to do a much as possible to deter scar tissue formation against doing too much that may result in delaying the recovery.

From Rob Murphy on Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 20:24:24 from 24.10.249.165

This all bodes well. So far, so good hey?

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