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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: 23.75 Month: 113.20 Year: 382.05
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
51.000.004.000.0055.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

AM - appropriately sore this morning - started with a short walk and then eased into a light 4 miler this morning before church. Bit cooler this morning following some rains late yesterday.

PM - 4 more easy miles with Riley. We drove over to the Forsyth Big Creek Greenway trail. The access point at Fowler park had a surprise for me - a public park with a running track on it. I shall return..

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.500.000.000.005.50

AM - about 5.5 to 6 miles this morning. HRM training for a couple of weeks as I begin to build up mileage volume. Like to keep things under 75% HRR.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.500.000.000.0012.50

AM - 7 miles this morning.  HR was a little more strained - may have been a little dehydrated or a result of extra volume over the last few days.  Decent run nonetheless.

PM - had to travel to Gainesville FL for business - arrived at the hotel around 7 pm and could not resist doing a run.  Planned only a short couple of miles but became nostalgic on my stomp around campus and ended up with about 5.5 miles.  Probably too much volume this week - too soon in the return from injury.  Will run light and easy tomorrow.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

AM - 6 miles easy on a very humid (typical) morning in Gainesville.  Ran a different route around campus.  Used the HRM to keep things easy.  A little sore from the double yesterday when I went to bed - but not too bad once I got started this morning.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.500.000.000.007.50

AM - 7.5 miles this morning in ATL.  Went further and faster at the same HR as earlier in the week so hoping that is sign of improving fitness. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.500.004.000.006.50

AM - did a workout today on my new treadmill.  Tempo run using HRM.  20 min warm up then 25 mins at 75-80% HRR and then a short cool down.  The treadmill has this neat feature where you can set a HR target and it will monitor your HR and adjust the speed or incline or both to maintain the actual HR within a few beats of the target.  First workout in what seems like forever, and though I started out at a decent pace, the last several minutes were indeed pedestrian in order to keep the HR in the zone I was targeting.  Happy though that I did not over do the effort and really pleased with the feature on the the treadmill that seems to work well.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

AM - nice run this morning fairly early.  Found a new route, very scenic.  Ended up with around 9 miles which was a couple short of what I had planned, but felt like it was good enough not to add anymore mileage to the end of the run.  Decent volume increase in mileage this week - measured though - which hopefully is keeping me from re-injury.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
51.000.004.000.0055.00
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