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Location:

Windsor,Ontario

Member Since:

Jan 22, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Detroit Marathon....October 2008...3:48:16

Half Marathon...Tecumseh Run From Cancer....July 2009....1:30:13

Detroit Free Pree/Flagstar Marathon...October 2009...3:30:24. Qualified for Boston!!


Short-Term Running Goals:

Maintain weekly mileage at 80 or more....


Long-Term Running Goals:

train and run a 30 mile ultra-marathon.

Personal:

I am a 52 yr. old single father of four children.  I am retired after injuring my back in 2000. I had back surgery, stopped running, and gained about 80 pounds. Decided to take my health into my own hands....lost 100 pounds, went to Nepal and trekked for two months in the Himalayas...climbed almost 18,000 ft.....felt so proud of myself....began running again. I qualified for Boston in Oct. 2009. I have shifted my focus now on ultra-marathons with the hope to run my first this year.
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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Sun, Jun 21, 2009
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
26.000.000.000.0026.00

Outside run.....Partly cloudy, 62 F and winds out of the N @ 5 mph.

Did not feel motivated at all to do this run....good thing I left at 6.30 in the morning, at least I excaped the humidity expected for today. Ran 26 miles at a pace of 7.58 minutes....total time of 3 hrs, 27 minutes.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From Jon on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 00:32:28 from 75.169.144.126

Just curious- is there a reason you are doing marathon-length training runs every week? I count 6 runs of 20+ miles since May 31, incl. 4 of 26+ miles. Most people, even elites, do not run more than one 20-24 mile run every other week, or 2 runs every 3 weeks. Unless you are Michael Wardian (or some other super-human, which you very well may be), doing this many long runs puts you at high risk for injury. Plus, it is hard to recover from runs that long, so it would likely impact your ability to train hard/fast. Maybe your body can handle it, but I'm just trying to figure out why you are training this much. Are you following some specific training program that suggests this many long runs?

From Brian on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:39:07 from 24.57.221.38

No specific training program....just love the long runs.....but would like to train to run ultra's. Can you suggest a good program for such?

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