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Aug 10, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Marathon PR - 3:05 (3:06 at Boston)

Completed a dozen marathons and a handful of 50 mile ultras.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Consistent aerobic and strength training.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Participate in 5k and 10k races.

Personal:

I started more dedicated running and racing in my thirties. Eventually I developed symptomatic bradycardia and SVT which required a cardiac pacemaker implant and a cardiac cath ablation. It has taken a long time to get back to running consistently again. Counting my blessings and trying to remain more balanced with fitness and life.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	109.50

Sat, Sep 19, 2015

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
11.75	0.00	0.00	0.00	11.75

11.75 mi in the morning. Over the past couple of weeks I've come to realize that I've been doing a lot of things wrong since taking up running in 2005. You'd think I would have had it figured out by now. All that time I was focused on the wrong thing, which was running itself. A paradigm shift.

Comments

From steve ash on Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 09:39:37 from 67.2.89.221

There is definitely some wisdom in that I think. Sometimes you just have to let go and "use the force" so to speak. When I was hyper-focused on training to the exclusivity of everything else, I only ended up over trained..

From SlowJoe on Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 08:34:52 from 45.18.50.53

Hmmmm, I'm curious to know what the right thing to focus on is, if it isn't running. Although when I don't get the ancillary things right, my running does go down the toilet.

From Bob on Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 12:33:03 from 98.222.16.15

Yeah, I wasn't very revealing. This may sound extreme, but I've come to realize that my best running body depends more on nutrition than anything else. I use to think training, even sleep, was more important. Definitely not for me.

From Rob Murphy on Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 12:36:23 from 24.10.247.181

We are all, as they say, an experiment of one.

How about a list of some of the things you have been doing wrong?

From Bob on Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 16:15:47 from 98.222.16.15

Rob, "a lot of things" was related to nutrition mostly. I've spent several years eating too little of the things I needed most. At this point, I'm starting to think it's why my training has declined and paces have slowed. A couple years ago my heart was palpitating and I had very low energy. Went to the cardiologist and was told I was over trained. Over trained! I hardly felt like I was running. I took last year off for the most part to heal, but all along I think it was due to my poor nutrition. You remember I made a change a couple weeks ago. I'm amazed how fantastic I feel.

From Rob Murphy on Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 16:33:25 from 24.10.247.181

Makes sense Bob. I know that if I have just a day or two of poor nutritional choices, I feel it in my runs.

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