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
12.001.250.000.0013.25

Spent the day packing, then decided to go run tonight. Had planned to do 8 or 9, but legs felt good and I only did 48 last week, so I kept going. Eventually decided to run for exactly two hours, progression style, and see how far I got. Ended up at 13.25 before I had to pull the panic switch to stop (control panel shorted out again; 10 miles seem to be the tipping point where my flying sweat does that). Ran the last 1.25 at GMP-plus. Legs felt surprisingly good for as hard as I ran in the 5K yesterday. Hope to take advantage of the holiday for another good run tomorrow, perhaps after Tyler leaves to go back to school.

It's been a good weekend -- good time with my son, enjoyed the ball game, two good runs, got a lot accomplished on the house. And an added bonus: After lunch with my parents today, we went over to a coworker of Pam's house who was offering us boxes from her recently completed move. There were plenty of those, but there was another offering -- an essentially unused treadmill, complete with incline feature, free. Somebody gave it to her, she's not going to use it and it's taking up space, and she offered it to me. I would have turned it down a month ago because I would have had no place to put it, but in the house in Springdale, I will have a place to put it. And I can use it

Night Sleep Time: 8.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.50
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