Getting back to Boston

Oklahoma City Memorial 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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Race: Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon (26.219 Miles) 04:39:54, Place overall: 1371, Place in age division: 93
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
26.220.000.000.0026.22

Ran OKC this morning with Sheri. Wasn't going to go fast, knew that months ago. The plan was to get Sheri (and hopefully Sherrie and Heidi) a big PR. Heidi got hurt last month, and Sherrie got caught up in the crush of people and never found us before the race. But Sheri and I stuck together for nearly five hours, and she got a 13-minute PR. Which I find extremely gratifying. She put her trust in me today, and I helped her get what she wanted. And I like Sheri very much, which makes it that much better that she reached her goal.

As for me, I was treating it as a training run, forgetting that no matter how fast or slow you go, 26.2 is a really long way. I didn't cramp during the run, but boy, during our mid-afternoon lunch... Left hammy and quad both locked up within a couple of minutes. I had to quit eating and stand up to get them loose. And then I faced three hours plus in the car back to FS, but with cruise control and one stop, got home with no further issues.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From butlerbrunning on Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 20:23:32 from 108.222.167.182

Nice run spider

From Spiderpig on Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 20:27:52 from 70.196.5.237

Thanks!Good way to mark my 10th marathon.

From Daniel Brunson on Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 22:43:15 from 68.0.88.70

Good job Spider. That's one heck of a training run.

From Kam on Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:59:23 from 68.66.163.179

Training run? Wow. Are you switching over to ultras?

From Spiderpig on Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 13:09:55 from 99.98.80.83

Nope. Just shooting for BQ at Bayshore next month, and since my friends asked me to pace them in OKC, I figured I'd do it and treat it as a training run, since our pace in OKC was 2:40 slower than I'll need at Bayshore.

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