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Location:

Naples,FL,

Member Since:

Mar 29, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

400m - ATC:  1:08   May '11

800m - ATC:  2:32   May '11

1600m - self-timed:  5:?? 

5k- Vinings Downhill 5k:  18:34  Sept, '11

10.k - Mardis Gras 10k:  39:15   Feb '12

Half - The Scream:  1:23:59  Jul '11

Marathon - Ridge to Bridge:  3:06:23   Oct '11

Completed 13 Marathons & 2 50k & 1 Century ride

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run injury free

Upcoming Races:

Sept. 14: - Erie Marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sprint down Boylston Street once per year

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
ST-6 Racer Lifetime Miles: 223.50
Boston Adizero Red Lifetime Miles: 607.00
Boston Adizero White Lifetime Miles: 430.00
Nike Free Lifetime Miles: 362.00
Nike Trail Lifetime Miles: 327.20
Boston Classic Lifetime Miles: 362.50
Adidas Marathon TR Lifetime Miles: 155.90
Vertical Feet Climbed - 2011 Lifetime Miles: 75701.00
Kinvara 2 Lifetime Miles: 31.80
Adios Lifetime Miles: 277.90
Ghost GTX Lifetime Miles: 328.00
Karhu Flow Formula One Lifetime Miles: 166.30
Brooks PureFlow 2 Lifetime Miles: 153.70
Adios II Lifetime Miles: 147.40
Adios 2 Lifetime Miles: 150.20
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
51.001.000.000.0052.00
Karhu Flow Formula One Miles: 22.80Adios Miles: 26.20Ghost GTX Miles: 3.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.000.000.000.003.00

Went to 5k, missed Andrea finish cause parking was hard to find (stayed in a suburb at a friends about an hour from downtown).  Met up with Jake, Andrea, Eric, Dan, and Rachelle at finish and we went for an easy 3 mile jog ... great to meet some more fellow bloggers.  Then I watched the Mile invitational HS Boys & Girl, Open Mens & Womens from the Grandstands ... exciting & fun ... scary fast runners!  It was 3 loops, & they had a big screen showing whole race, so you could really watch the races unfold.  Good stuff!  Stayed downtown all day & met up with some others I knew from Atlanta, then met my brother for dinner, as he drove up from NYC to watch race.

Karhu Flow Formula One Miles: 3.00
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Race: Boston Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:52:08, Place overall: 6877, Place in age division: 857
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
26.200.000.000.0026.20

Awesome day ... I think you all know the conditions runners were faced with!

I had no real time goal, just wanted to make sure I stayed comfortable so I could enjoy the day, and if by some stroke of magic I had a chance at a good time, I would roll with it & push ... but was not concerned with time.

My brother dropped me off about a 1/4 mile from the start at 7:30 & I walked to athletes village ... where I just relaxed, hydrated, ate bananas & a bagel.  Met some cool people & before I knew it we were making our way to the start.  Most of the day I just ran with the flow of people ... started off at a 7:00 mile pace ... and while this was comfortable ... I knew this would be trouble ... so at about the 3/4 mile mark I jumped off the road for a quick pit stop ... which apparrently I needed from all my hydrating ... because it lasted about 30 seconds!  This was good, because when I jumped back in, the pace was a little slower.

By Mile 4, I realized just how hot things were going to get, and basically determined I had 2 options:  1) Push the pace & be miserable and still not be happy with my time, or 2)  Back off, enjoy the day, and not worry about my pace.  Option 2 was the only logical decision ... coming off knee injury and facing extreme heat conditions, pushing it would make no sense.  It was at this point that I started dumping water on my head at just about every opportunity I could ... which was pretty much whenever you wanted ... because the spectators were awesome in their support of the race ... water, ice, popsicles, bananas, cold sponges ... you could get pretty much whatever you wanted when you wanted it!

By Mile 7 I could feel myself overheating, so the water dousings became more frequent.  At this point I met up with a couple other runners from the Atlanta Track Club, and ran a few Miles with them around 7:30 pace.  After a while I let them go, because I wanted to stop more frequently to make sure I stayed cool & did not want to chase them down every time I did this ... but it was fun to run a couple miles with them ... in the end we had the same time anyway ... and I passed one of them in the last quarter mile.

Around Mile 10, my average pace started dropping pretty substantially, but I really was not running slower, just stopping more often to dump water on head, stand in front of a sprinkler, kiss girls fro Weelsley College, and just soak up the experience while I kept my body temp down ... I guess I did a good job of this as I experienced some chills ... not sure if this was a sign of overheating or over cooling ... but I was going to err on the side of the latter!

At no point in the race was I really uncomfortable, as I took all precautions against going there.  The crowds were awesome ... it was easy to get them riled up with high 5's while doing 100 yards pickups & pumping my fist.  Another fun thing to do was to get a glass of water & throw it on the boisterous college spectators & then take off in a sprint ... they loved that & and it always got a loud response from the crowd.  Of course, 50 yards down the road I would just slow back down.

The hills of Newton were not bad, of course I was running conservative and not racing ... I knew when I reached the top I was home free ... I have not run over 14 miles since I injured my knee in January.  I met my brother at Mile 21, hung out & chatted with him a minute or two ... it was great to see him at this point in the race.  He asked how I felt & I responded, "Great, I am just out for a jog in the park, there is plenty left in the tank."  I thought about ruuning hard the last 5, but it just did not make sense, I did do a bunch of spurts to energize the crowd, but just followed those with recoveries.  I think I had ice cubes in my cap about 10 of the last 13 miles!

All in all it was an awesome day ... and while I am a little stiff today ... the best thing about my conservative approach will be a quick recovery.  I will return to Boston another day to race!

Splits:            Pace

5k:      23:25      7:32

10k:    24:13      7:48

15k     24:22     7:51

20k     27:34     8:52

Half:    1:45:41

25k     27:11     8:45

30k     29:23     9:30

35k     32:43    10:32

40k     30:23     9:47

42k     12:32    10:05

3:52:08  8:52 Overall Avg Pace

Adios Miles: 26.20
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.500.000.000.003.50

Post marathon shuffle

Karhu Flow Formula One Miles: 3.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.300.000.000.006.30

Easy 6+ late at night ... or maybe it was early this morning ... impromptu run to the store while visiting a friend in Philly, because he had crashed & I did not have wheels.  Felt good ... not ready for speed, but fully recovered.

Karhu Flow Formula One Miles: 6.30
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.001.000.000.0013.00

Felt pretty good, comfortably fast I would call it.  Hard to believe that last mile was goal marathon pace for a sub 3, but never say never ... for starters I need to lose the beer gut!

1- 8:44

2 - 8:18

3 - 7:59

4 - 8:05

5 - 7:49

6 - 7:54

7 - 7:44

8 - 7:37

9 - 7:45

10 - 6:48

 AP: 7:52

PM - Visiting my parents in PA for a little while & one of the beauties of that is the running path along the river out the front door ... let the doubles begin!

Easy miles in a refreshing steady rain ... 8:50, 8:40, 8:26 ... finished with a stride the last 0.1


Ghost GTX Miles: 3.00Karhu Flow Formula One Miles: 10.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
51.001.000.000.0052.00
Karhu Flow Formula One Miles: 22.80Adios Miles: 26.20Ghost GTX Miles: 3.00
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