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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: 17.50 Month: 84.00 Year: 477.05
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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AM - a little over 5 miles with Finn on the roads to North Valley and back up the Dinsmore climb to Freemanville before church   

 

 

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AM - 5.25 miles with Dan and Finn on the horsetrail roads - my watch malfunctioned showing negative miles/distance in sort of a count-down display - so I had Dan tag me for the Strava upload or else it would appear that I ran .13 miles at a 5 hour and 24 min pace per mile.  :) 

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AM - 4.5 miles with Dan and the dogs on the Milton Preserve trail - lost Finn for a brief period - he never stays too close when off-leash and the meadows have now grown to a point which exceeds his height - making it challenging to find him when he goes off the main trail.   

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AM - 5.5 miles with Finn through the neighborhood.  

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AM - 5.5 miles with Dan and Finn on the horsetrail roads.   Celebrating my wedding anniversary today 32 years - and we are heading out on vacation to Greece later this afternoon.  

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PM - in Athens Greece for vacation- after checking into the hotel whilst Tracy took a recovery nap due to some air sickness - I went out and explored the city a little bit.   Ran around the Acropolis and through botanical gardens - about 4 miles.  

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AM - had some fun in Athens this morning.  Ran to the Olympic Stadium - site of the 1896 first modern Olympic Games and the 2000 Games and ran some laps around the track - took some photos and even got on the podium for a few fun shots.   The track has very narrow turns - with the straights measuring roughly 185 meters or the equivalent of antiquity measure of length of a "stade".   I read where the 200 meters of ancient times was the premiere race and so it can be covered almost entirely without a turn on the track.  In any event this was a pretty run nerdy awesome experience. The seating is all marble including the stairs and the setting is tucked in some trees and when I ran to the top of it the Parthenon and the Acropolis is easy to see close by.   Really fun time - as I was leaving a young couple arrived to run as well and were just as giddy as I was    "This is so cool!" 

 

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