Getting back to Boston

Big Cottonwood Marathon

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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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Sat, Sep 13, 2014
Race: Big Cottonwood Marathon (26.219 Miles) 04:07:23, Place overall: 727, Place in age division: 44
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.7126.220.000.0026.93

Race went very well for 17 miles, through the downhill and out of the canyon. Then the needle hit E. Wasn't trashed quads, I just had nothing left. The pace was very comfortable for the downhill. Didn't feel I had to push at all to maintain around 8:00 pace. But there just wasn't enough in reserve from the training plan. Didn't have a lot of fun either, especially for the last two hours. Therefore I'm going to reassess when or if I want to start doing marathons again. In the meantime, halfs, maybe even 10Ks. I'll have more to say later on this.

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Comments
From Dave Taylor on Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 08:51:18 from 174.23.76.41

I'm with you, marathons are for more marathony people than me. You can actually do something useful an hour after a half. I think a big reason that people's running careers only last 20 years is that they do too many long (>15 miles) runs.

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