| 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. Favorite Blogs: |
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Miles: | This week: | 10.00 |
Month: | 148.75 |
Year: | 541.80 |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 33.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 39.20 |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| AM - 3 miles with Finn in the neighborhood. Hamstring was feeling better yesterday - an d not so much today.
PM - 2 miles of deep water running - I think it is helping the hamstring.
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2022 Peachtree Road Race (6.21 Miles) 00:45:41, Place overall: 1156, Place in age division: 28 | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 2.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 8.20 |
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2022 Peachtree Road Race - did surprisingly reasonably well today. Had lots of excuses and reasons not to expect to run well - had a bout with COVID in the 2 weeks leading up; frustrating proximal hamstring tendonopathy that has been more problematic in the last month than it has over the last 6 month - plus it was super humid this morning - high dew point of 71 degrees. So I went in with the idea of just hoping to maintain 8 min pace and wasn't sure I could even manage that having most of my training run paces of 8:45 to 10 mins lately...
But things kinda worked out ok. I did some pool running yesterday afternoon - which seems to be helping the hamstring the following day; and although it was very warm and humid today - the start at 7 am had some low cloud cover and the sun never emerged until mid morning.
Usually my family participates in the event - but two of my girls are not in town and my other daughter would have walked it with her toddler, but they do not permit strollers. So just my son-in-law and I did it today. But today's race was the first time since the pandemic that they have held the race on one single day (last year was split over 2 days for social distancing) - and crowds were finally back and it seemed like things were back to normal.
Anyway - the first half mile was a little rough feeling - my legs felt terrible and I could not seem to find a groove. But I relaxed a little and allowed myself to get acclimated - and was very pleased with a 7:20 split for the first mile. The next two miles are downhill and I ran those both at or below 7 mins. The second half of the race is mostly uphill - the steepest is section is between 3 and 4 miles and my pace slowed to 7:40 - but I came back with a 7:30 and then 7:07 before finishing the last .2 at 6:30 pace downhill. My HR effort in the second half was probably more than I should have attempted - but at the time, it felt like I was not overreaching.
My time was literally 3 second faster this year than last year when I ran "easy" with Dan; but considering my situation this year - I could not be more pleased with this result.
PM - 1 mile of deep water running in the pool.
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| AM - 3 miles easy with Finn in the neighborhood. Legs felt a bit tired as expected.
PM - 2 miles of pool running.
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| AM - 5 miles with Finn - on a hilly route. Pace was quite slow. It is very humid and warm. Hamstring is really responding to the pool running - I am guessing it provides the proper bloodflow to the tendon to allow it to heal. Still doing the strengthening exercise as well.
PM - 2 miles of pool running.
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 3.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.75 |
| AM - 3.75 with Finn on the horsetrail roads. Ran over to Dan's new house to check on it, as he is out of town. Really fatigued today - perhaps too much pool running the last few days and insufficient sleep.
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| AM - 5 miles on the trail - several loops around the pond. Legs felt really fatigued again today. Quite warm and humid and effort on the trail was not relaxing or easy despite the slow pace.
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
| AM - thunderstorms all morning - so 4 miles on the treadmill.
PM - had a birthday party for my grandaughter at the house today - weather cleared for a nice day at the pool. After clean up - I did a little over a mile of deep water running. 2 days of no pool running had my hamstring starting to ache and bother me more.
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 33.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 39.20 |
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