| Location: Arlington,TN,USA Member Since: Jun 01, 2007 Gender: Male Goal Type: Age Division Winner Running Accomplishments: One of the highlights of my short running career thus far has been a rather surprising 10k finish. I had never cracked sub 40:00, but while in training for a marathon, surprised myself with a 38:49 (it remains my PR). 5k - 18:45 10k - 38:49 1/2 - 1:26:57 Mar - 3:15:54 (BQ by a few seconds!) Short-Term Running Goals: Set PR's at every distance and count down to becoming a Master runner. Realistically, I would like to run sub 18:00 this year and lower both the 1/2 and full marathon times. Not many chances here in Memphis to run a good/fast 10k. Oh yeah, try to juggle running/racing with a full-time job, home business, family, and a new baby. Long-Term Running Goals: In August of 2008, I begin training for my first sub 3:00 marathon. The race will be the St. Jude Marathon in Memphis, TN. (my hometown).
* I began blogging, again, to help me maintain my motivation for my attempt! Encouragement, advice, etc. is always welcome. Personal: I am married with one little girl (age 5) and a little boy (12 months). My daughter is beginning to run a little with me at her own leisure, I don't push her. My wife runs as well and I hope my son will someday run. |
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5 miles in just a bit under 38:22 (too fast). I can tell that my fitness is coming back. Aerobically, everything is beginning to feel "normal" again; however, the legs are lagging behind. More miles needed, I guess. Because of the locations of my stress fractures (sacrum and pubic symphysis), I wasn't able to sit on a bike saddle and didn't have access to a gym. Gradually, I will get back to where I was.
On the homefront, Ethan is almost 10 weeks old and is now sleeping 7-9 hours a night. On a sad note, on Friday, we learned that our beloved family pet (Lexi-Maltese) probably has oral melanoma. There are other places in her mouth. Biopsy not back yet, but, the doctor suspects that. |
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3 easy miles at the high school track (soft surface) in ~24:00. I wanted to break out into a sprint in a bad way, but resisted the urge. Tinman said that fast running, this early would be detrimental. Oh well...
Still no biopsy results on our little dog, but we have found a few more masses. She is eating well, playing, and appears to be fine. We ultimately know what is going to happen, but it is tough to think about. This little dog has been with us through several moves, two children, countless road trips to Georgia, etc., etc. We have not told our daughter yet, as we wanted to get the biopsy results and know "for sure." Unfortunately, our daughter lost three great grandparents in the span of 11 days in late 2005. She knows what cancer is.
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| Zip here...Life got in the way in the form of picking a child up from school, gymnastics, and then watching my nephew play football. |
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That's right, another zero. The injury seems to be fine. Now, the family is sick. I feel like crud, but could probably log a few miles.
I will be watching my hometown 5k tomorrow. I would have really liked to have raced, but hard running probably wouldn't be a good idea right now. I don't even want to just run it, because it would probably open my eyes up to just how out of shape I really am. The ego can't handle that right now. Next year.
We heard back from the pathologoist regarding our dog. He indicated that the tissue was not consistent with that of melanoma. The Vet. still seems baffled. Lexi is doing fine and acting like her normal self.
Perhaps tomorrow, I will post something about running. |
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I was motivated after watching my hometown 5k, so this run was a bit quicker than I wanted (29:40). Atleast I can hold sub 7:30 pace for 4 miles now. Tomorrow, I will attempt 6 miles. This run was the first in a very L O N G time that I was completely pain/discomfort free. After 2 miles, the left side of the groin got a bit tight, but not very noticeable. Good things to come??? |
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