Getting back to Boston

January 02, 2026

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Location:

Fort Smith,AR,USA

Member Since:

Jan 01, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Dec. 5, 2009 -- St. Jude Memphis Marathon, 3:31:56. Boston qualifier for 2011. Two-time Boston finisher. 19 marathons so far in 10 states, Canada, Germany, England and Sweden. Next up: London (4/25/17)

5K -- 21:57; 10K -- 45:54; 20K-- 1:42:39, Half -- 1:39:30. All subject to improvement. Maybe. Or maybe not.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Short-term: Just get my motivation back and go from there

Long-Term Running Goals:

A lot of marathons, and other distances, slowly.

Personal:

Physician assistant/hospitalist, divorced since December 2010, one child (son). Ran high school track, took 10 years off, ran a 15K on my 25th birthday, took off next 21 years.

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No running today, just hiking all over the campus in Fayetteville with Tyler. He's really enthusiastic about college, which I'm glad to see, but the walking on campus is really going to be problematic. I think at the very least he's gonna need a bicycle to get around; his feet will not tolerate the amount of walking he'd need to do, even living on campus and riding the bus whenever possible. He really likes the new Maple Hill dorm as well, which has suites and semi-private bathrooms (shared with suitemates not the whole wing). Which is OK with me, although quite expensive compared to other dorms. The privacy is the big issue.

On my part, I discovered that even with the amount of running I do (or perhaps in part BECAUSE of the amount of recent training), hiking those hills on campus wasn't particularly easy for me either. Which didn't come as a huge surprise.

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