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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Weird night's sleep. In bed just after 9, asleep by 9:30, awake at 11:30, couldn't go back to sleep thinking about my race, got on the computer, up until 2, went back to bed, still couldn't sleep (brain still wired, cold, and sore). So I took a hot bath at 2:45, which addressed all three issues well enough that I fell asleep pretty quickly. Then I slept until 9 when Max the cat woke me up. Pam the wife was in Camden visiting her friend Debbie, so she was not involved in all this.

Still no official results on the 20K, unless they were posted within the last hour. Nope, I checked; still not there.

One of those five-mile recovery runs where the legs were fine but the rest of me was half asleep. I think sometimes I could snooze while running, and maybe have from time to time. Kept the pace around 10:00 to give the legs a little break. I'll do another easy run tomorrow to recover from the 20K before I get back into GA runs and strides and stuff. 

 Do have one more race result from this weekend. My long-run partner Pat was doing the Omaha Marathon this morning as basically a training run before Detroit next month. Pat ran a 4:13:44 on his training run. Attaway Pat! If he can do better than that in Detroit, more power to him. Now I have one more target to shoot for -- if I can't break 4, I still have to beat Pat. Unless he breaks 4 in Detroit, which he just might.

Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00
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