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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Change of plans day today. I'd planned to do 10-12 this afternoon, but then found out I had a "mandatory" meeting at work (which half the team missed) at 1. So I went to the meeting. Then I decided to do 4 or 5 this afternoon, and the 10-12 tomorrow. I left the house a little before 4 to go to Ben Geren, planning to run one loop around the park perimeter, which is 4.4ish by car odometer. Ran it, felt pretty strong, and there was still daylight left, so I decided to run it again. Finished that loop, even faster than the first, and it was too late to run a third loop before dark, but I could run the gravel trail that I usually run. Ran that hard as well, then decided to jog a cooldown lap around the gravel trail.

Didn't have the Garmin (forgot to charge it), but I estimate that run as right at 12 miles, which I ran in 1:49:16. Splits were 40:30 for the first 4.4, 38:52 for the second 4.4, 13:33 for the hard lap on the trail, 16:21 for the jog lap.

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