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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: 14.00 Month: 14.00 Year: 338.70
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
41.000.000.000.0041.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

AM - 7 miles on the treadmill due to an ice storm outside.  It doesn't look too terrible but having slipped last week - I decided to keep it safe indoors today.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

AM - 5 miles on the treadmill due to the conditions outside - icy with freezing rain and very cold temperatures overnight.  Did not want to slip and fall again. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

AM - started out on the treadmill for about a half mile, but when Dan final responded to my text and wanted to run outside, I bundled up and ran with him and Rosie on the trail.  Temps were cold for here - 11 degrees with a feels-like of 0.   Had good cold weather gear and handwarmers that made the run tolerable.   Wore the crampons for the trail, but probably did not need them - though the boardwalk/bridges over the ponds were quite icy.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.500.000.000.004.50

AM - 4.5 miles from Dan's house with his dog Rosie on a very cold morning.   He's heading up to his mother's place in Connecticut today as she's having some health issues.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.250.000.000.005.25

AM - 5.25 miles solo this morning through East Bluff - a bit on the slow side but it is quite cold still and it takes a while for me to warm up, and though I felt fine, I just did not seem to have the energy to push too much today.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.250.000.000.005.25

AM - about 5.25 miles solo in the neighborhood this morning.    Cold in the low 20's and we are forecast to get some snow early tomorrow morning.   My runs in this colder weather lately take a good 1 to 2 miles before I reach my normal training pace.  Old equipment needs a little more time on cold mornings, I am told. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

AM - 10 miles on the treadmill today.  Snow and cold winds in the forecast this morning and most of the guys either out of town or doing other things - so I stayed inside.  Sometimes just an easy solo run on the 'mill is good.  Watched the second half of the Mel Brook's 99 year old man documentary of his life and work.  Did not realize that Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein came out in the same year 1974.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
41.000.000.000.0041.00
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