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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.720.000.000.0013.72

Amazing how warm 55 degrees feels when I've spent much of the last two months running in sub-freezing weather. Wouldn't say I was overheated, but I was sweating a bunch despite running in shorts and a tech shirt. Ran the old Shiloh loop with a tweak, diverting over to Wagon Wheel on the way back. Ran in the construction-to-be zone on WW once the sidewalk ended to stay out of traffic, which worked fine; it's graded gravel and smooth and probably actually preferable to running on the concrete, either road or sidewalk.

Run went pretty well until the last two miles, when I started to run out of gas. Tells me, as if I didn't know, that my diet has been lacking. I had thought about looping through JBH to get the run up to 15 miles, but the dead legs took that idea out of play. Just decided to get through the second loop and get into the icebath, which I did. Still wound up with a 53-mile week despite missing Monday night.

Ran instead of going to the baseball game, although I might go to tomorrow's game with T if it doesn't rain.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From flatlander on Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 22:13:21 from 198.207.244.102

Good run and good week, sounds like your winter has been quite a bit more severe than ours, which has been cold enough as it is.

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