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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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Run before work was a fail; goofball failed to realize that MAFC doesn't open until 7 on Saturday, which does not compute when I'm officially supposed to be at work at 7.

So what I did instead was run during work; finished my rounds, went to run instead of to lunch, and decided to keep going until (a) I finished 10 miles or (b) I got called to the ER. B happened first, but not by too much; I got in 8.20 miles before I got buzzed. Pace was somewhere around 9:20, not pushed but not EPMC either.

Silky's running Western States today. Dude is crazy, but I have to give it up to him. He's raising like $13,000 for the Wounded Warriors with this particular stroke of insanity covering 100 miles and who knows how many hours.

Oh yeah, date tomorrow, woman named Colleen (I think that's how she spells it). Thanks to the fix-up elves, so I haven't met her, but we had a nice phone conversation last night. She raises dogs for a living. I gotta decide on a restaurant that's open on Sunday night and call her with time to meet.

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