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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)

50 lifetime marathons (for which I am now retired)

 

 

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: 24.50 Month: 85.75 Year: 1565.65
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
36.750.004.250.0041.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.750.000.000.003.75

AM - 3.75 miles on the Milton Trail with Dan and Darryl before church and travel. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.500.000.000.005.50

AM - 5.5 miles in and around the area of Arlington Texas - AT&T Stadium and the Ranger's stadium - still quite warm here - but only here for the day. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.750.004.250.007.00

AM - Treadmill workout - 2 x 15 mins @ HM pace / HRR 153-155 avg with a 3 min rest in between each interval as planned.  Ended up having the first interval right at 153 HR - and pace was 6:53 and the second one was at 158 HR but a bit slower paced at 7:07 with the latter half of the second interval being over 160 HR.  So essentially this was 2 x ~2 miles and is stretching the time out that I am running these threshold/sub-threshold workouts over the last several weeks with a plan to get to 2 x 20 - 25 mins @ HM pace over the next several weeks until my race in the first weekend of December.  So far, so good.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.500.000.000.004.50

AM - 4.5 miles in the City of London - across the River Thames at St. Pauls/Millenium Footbridge and then down to Tower Bridge and back after an overnight flight.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.250.000.000.005.25

PM - just under 5.25 miles with the last half at or just below tempo effort in VondelPark in Amsterdam.   Travelled here on business for a board meeting today after an early flight from London.  Heading back home tomorrow morning as I need to be home for a wedding - so this was a tight turnaround.  Good run today. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

AM - 4 easy trail miles after a long flight back from Amsterdam.  I had planned to run before my flight but overslept - and I think the easy run after a long flight helps reset the time zone for me for some reason. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.000.000.000.0011.00

AM - 11 mile long run with Darryl on the Forsyth trail - ran very evenly and controlled right at 9 min pace with solid consistency.  Still quite humid / warm unfortunately - looking forward to some truly fall weather soon.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
36.750.004.250.0041.00
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