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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
58.750.000.000.0058.75
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
17.250.000.000.0017.25

AM - 3 miles - easy shakeout before church in the rain.

PM - 14.25 miles on the treadmill.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.750.000.000.003.75

AM - just under 3.75 miles on the Milton trail in a light drizzle, cooler temps and unfortunately, dark enough now to need a headlamp at the 6:15 am start time.  Legs were expectedly very fatigued after the volume of miles yesterday.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.250.000.000.004.25

AM - 4.25 miles with Dan in WC at a very pedestrian pace - I am catching a cold and felt kinda bad for the first couple of miles.  Enjoyed the conversation and we met a family awaiting a school bus pick-up with their very large English Bull Mastiff - named Clyde who weighs 220 lbs according to his owner.   Very sweet dog despite his imposing size. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.250.000.000.006.25

AM - a little under 6.25 miles this morning solo.   Felt really kinda bad for the first half of the run, and then felt only moderately bad the second half. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.750.000.000.003.75

AM - 3.75 miles with Dan early before I had an early day at the office. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.250.000.000.004.25

AM - 4.25 miles with Dan and Greg for their birthday run - with Darryl too from Starbucks near where Greg lives - very early.  And they got free coffee drinks for their birthdays afterwards. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
19.250.000.000.0019.25

AM - 4 miles on the treadmill early before taking Tracy to the airport.  Was not really feeling it this morning; and she was actually concerned and said "you never do that, what's wrong."  But honestly it was just bleh and did not feeling like pushing through if it was not enjoyable.

PM - 15.25 miles on the treadmill in the afternoon.   First part of the run took a while to find my groove, but ultimately settled in and ground through to get a solid long run in.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
58.750.000.000.0058.75
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