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Airline Trail Ghost Run

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Location:

Mooresville,NC,

Member Since:

May 01, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

2007 Highlights: Litchfield Road Race (7.1) in 58:36

2008 Highlights: New Jersey Marathon in 4:12, Bay State Marathon in 3:10:30

2009 Highlights: Boston Marathon in 3:13:26, Litchfield Road Race in 49:30, New Haven 20k in 1:25:03, Bay State Marathon in 3:09:09

2010 Highlights: Bradley 10k in 39:58, Litchfield Road Race in 48:06, New Haven 20k in 1:23:59, Ghost Trail 1/2 Marathon in 1:29:12 (trail), Philadelphia Marathon in 3:06:59

2011 Highlights: Litchfield Road Race in 47:44, Ghost Trail 1/2 Marathon in 1:28:35, Goshen Turkey Trot in 40:46, Jingle Bell 5k in 19:05

2012 Highlights: Finished Boston Marathon in 3:41:59 in 89 degree heat, broke the top 100 in Litchfield Road Race (82nd), 1st Place (overall) in Solstice 5k, Hogsback 1/2 in 1:29:36, and bq'd in Bay State Marathon (3:14:20).

Personal Records

1-mile: 5:39/track (2008)

5k: 19:05/Jingle Bell (2011)

10k: 39:58/road race (2010)

20k: 1:23:59 (2010/New Haven)

1/2 marathon: 1:28:35 (2011/Ghost Trail)

marathon: 3:06:59 (2010/Philly)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub-3:05 marathon in Fall

Sub-1:23 in New Haven 20k

Sub-46 min in Litchfield RR

Sub-19 in 5k

Sub-5:30 in mile

Upcoming Races:

TBD

Long-Term Running Goals:

sub-3hr marathon

sub-5:15 min mile

become a competitive master's runner

win age division in smaller marathon

Personal:

Married w/six daughters (9 year age span)

Pastor a church in NC

Enjoy travel and recreation with family

Began running in November of 2007

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Miles:	This week:	24.00	Month:	90.00	Year:	1425.00
Barefoot Lifetime Miles:						114.25
K12- Black Lifetime Miles:						401.00
Kinvara 13 (blue 1) Lifetime Miles:						341.00
Kinvara 13 (blue 2) Lifetime Miles:						366.00
Kinvara 14 Neon Lifetime Miles:						388.00
Kinvara 14/teal Lifetime Miles:						520.50
Kinvara Blue/red Lifetime Miles:						377.00
Kinvara 15 (blue/grey) Lifetime Miles:						238.50
Kinvara 14 Green Lifetime Miles:						280.00

Sat, Nov 07, 2009

Race: Airline Trail Ghost Run (13.8 Miles) 01:33:22, Place overall: 17, Place in age division: 3

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.20	13.80	0.00	0.00	14.00

Quite a day...spent hours yesterday and last night icing my sprained ankle. Was 20% (going to run) at dinner, 30% by evening, and 50/50 this morning. Swelling and pain's was still there, but with ice and a couple doses of motrin, decided to give it a shot.

Warmed up with light trainers (tangent 3's) and realized that this would not last long at all. Changed shoes to saucony ride's and before I could test them it was final call to the last shuttle. Said a prayer and decided I'd run the first mile no matter what at desired race pace and adjust from there.

Pretty good crowd showed up (200-300) and I worked my way to the front to take away any unneccessary work such as dodging runners (they can dodge me today :)). The gun sounded and I was off, feeling absolutely horrible...

Miles 1-4: 26:25 (6:36 pace is a bit deceiving because it was all a gradual downhill...foot was cold, stiff and I had to favor my left leg)

Miles 4-8: 54:20 (Pain began to numb and path straightened out considerably...most of this section was on dirt and gravel which slowed us down a bit...I found a tiny bit of a groove and was less affected by any pain)

Miles 9-13.8: 1:33:22 (9-13 were all uphill and slower than 7min pace...however the last section was a sharp downhill which I was able to dip to sub-6min pace...I think a few of the markers were off in the middle section which made this last part seem faster...either miles 4-8 were shorter than marked or this was more of a 13.5 type course I would guess- they advertised it as 13.8)

I'm satisfied with the run. It was a challenging course and I stayed strong, despite the ankle, throughout. Hopefully this will be a good building block for my next marathon Thanksgiving weekend.

Progrid Rides (2) Miles: 14.00

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Barry on Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 14:17:00 from 72.24.220.35

Wow, you did awesome! With a hurt ankle, i am very impressed. Now remember with God for us who can be against us? God really blessed you and that is awesome!

From JimF on Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 17:14:57 from 98.214.105.180

Great job! After reading yesterday it didn't sound good but you ran a tough race on a bad ankle. Definitely a strength builder for the marathon. If you can tough it out on a bad ankle you will breeze through the marathon.

From Burt on Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 19:01:20 from 98.177.216.165

Nice job. I like how you let people work their way around you today. Good stuff.

From jtshad on Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 11:29:24 from 69.20.183.178

Wow, great time especially with a hurt ankle! Don't push it too much and aggravate the injury more though.

From rockness18 on Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 20:29:08 from 75.11.50.213

Thanks guys! Definitely did better than I thought was possible. I'll be careful this week- the ankle's still quite swollen.

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