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
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Eighty semi-slow laps at MAFC today. Glutes were a little stiff after yesterday's ladders, and there is some chafing to deal with as well, but things loosened up pretty well after a couple of miles.

Completed the first half of 2011 with 1052 miles. Went back and looked at the log, and I missed 51 days of running so far this year, due to weather, injury, exhaustion, travel, taper, work, blah blah blah. Meaning on the other 131 days, I averaged better than 8 miles. If I can maintain an 8-mile average and cut the RDs in half, that would put me at 1250 or so for the second half of the year. Bump up the daily mileage later in the year, maybe get 1350-1400. I think the actual goal will be to keep the RDs to about 20, one every two weeks or so plus the occasional can't-be-avoided miss.

Tomorrow, the first run with WAR at Chaffee. Cindy won't be there due to surgery (I think), but it'll be nice to have people to run with. Hopefully there will be people there wanting to run my 9:20ish pace.

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