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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)

 

 

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: 5.25 Month: 34.25 Year: 1797.06
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
34.750.000.000.0034.75
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

AM - 4 miles on the trail with Dan and the dogs.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.500.000.000.004.50

AM - 4.5 miles with Dan and Finn from Milton HS and through Crabapple.   Talked about our friends who were doing Boston today - felt a little FOMO.  Tracked them all and each had very good runs today - Ben in particular went sub-3 hours at 2:56 and Allan ran 3:19.   Kacy ran 3:11 and Karen ran 3:18.   Nice seeing Conner Mantz run a really strong race today too.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.250.000.000.005.25

AM - 5.25 miles with Finn through the East Bluff and up to the top of Dinsmore.   Slow start but gradually got up to a good pace. Finn seemed to be a little off this morning at times running in parallel or slightly behind me - though he was super stoked to run when we got up this morning.  As with the last two mornings, I have done some indoor rowing as a part of additional fitness along with yoga and strengthening exercises.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

AM - 5 miles on the WC Golf course with Dan and Finn.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.500.000.000.003.50

AM - 3.5 miles with Dan and the dogs on the trail which was pretty muddy from the rains over the last few days - so we stayed on the back nine - and looped around the lake over a couple of new bridges which are nearly completed.   He had an early doctor appointment and had to cut things short today. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

AM - 5 miles with Dan and Finn through the neighborhood quite early as I had a meeting in the office.  Slow start as always, but finished strong.  Finn has been lagging a little bit in the last couple of runs where he's more to the side of me instead of his normal up front.   

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.500.000.000.007.50

AM - 7.5 miles with Dan and Darryl on an improvised and very hilly route - we opted not to go with Greg on the Forsyth trail where we end up with a tempo effort.  This was more relaxed and sub-tempo and sub-long run distance.   Good conversation. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
34.750.000.000.0034.75
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