Getting back to Boston

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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
44.240.000.002.9847.22
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.150.000.000.0016.15

Took me forever to summon up the will to get dressed and get out on the road -- like almost 1:30 p.m. But the run went pretty well once I did. AT acted up a bit, but I was able to maintain decent pace anyway on a very hilly course. Finished 26K in 2:36. Had to work a little harder to maintain that pace than I had hoped, but that is of some value too. Twelve days to go...

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.500.000.000.007.50

Easy 7.5 from Marketplace this afternoon, doing (sorta) one of our Just Trippin' 5:15 a.m. routes. Made what I think is an important discovery. I realized I was kinda tightening the sore Achilles, trying to protect it, and it occurred to me that that was probably exactly the wrong approach. Sure enough, I tried to relax it and the pain subsided.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.520.000.002.987.50

Intervals at the track, in the rain. Well, some of the warmup was in the rain. I went under the stands to stretch and by the time I finished, the rain had stopped. The legs were not up to 5K pace today; 10K pace was all I could manage, and even that was a struggle. I felt like I was going anaerobic to do that. But I ran 1600 repeats in 7:31, 7:29 and 7:27. Achilles started bothering me on the cooldown laps, in spite of my efforts to relax it, so I shut that down two laps early. Not a great workout, but I got it done. I attribute part of that to poor sleep last night, due in large part to iced tea consumption (moron!), and part to lousy nutrition. I gotta eat better for the next nine days.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.070.000.000.004.07

Low and slow this morning with Kathy L. Just what I needed. Run tomorrow, then a couple days off. Gotta start eating better though. Maybe to OG tonight. Hoping Jennifer will be with us.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

Whole buncha people in my cul de sac this morning to run everything from 12 (me) to 20 (Kay). Did the Okie run for the first 12, then I did a loop in the neighborhood for the final 2. Pushed the pace pretty well on the return leg and woundup with 9:25 average. Little faster than I wanted, but it felt comfortrable. And I'd already been called into work an hour before I finished :( So off I go. Hay's in the barn for Corndog now.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
44.240.000.002.9847.22
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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