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
43.101.800.002.3847.28
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.040.000.000.008.04

Up way too late last night after some extremely disappointing information obtained from Facebook about someone I thought I knew. Guess I was wrong, and it upset me, thus up until 2:30 and up again at 7:30. Wasn't sure I could actually get myself out the door, but a group run with Kathy, Daniel, Michael and Jim F. was the ticket to get me going. Wound up with a decent run despite mid-70s temps.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.500.000.001.8812.38

Eight plus this morning on the SHS-Free Ferry loop. Went OK once my back loosened up. Tonight, speed work at Ramsey with the clinic group. Not sure how many of them will actually show up. Staci won't be running after her 50K, I know that. Now off to my work waste, uh, monthly meeting.

Intervals actually went well. Needed six laps to warm up even though it was 80 out there due to stiffness from this morning, but then 5x660 went ok.  Reps were 2:45, 2:36, 2:42, 2:34 and 2:36, and 2:37 was target pace.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.630.000.000.505.13

Easy run to and from SHS, dodging high school kids all the way (no issues, just a lot of traffic). Felt pretty good on the return leg and decided to do 100m strides; wound up doing 8 of them. I think that's going to have to be a major feature of the next 4.5 weeks. The legs have to learn to go fast again. My knees were really achy for the first mile, but that eased up too, thankfully.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.111.140.000.0012.25

Twelve miles progression on Phoenix. Perfect running weather. If it's like this in OKC, or TC, I'll be very pleased. Legs tightened up a couple of times, but I was able to shift gears and keep going, and they loosened again. I wish I'd known how to do that in Boston instead of folding up. Runs like this make me think it just might happen.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.560.660.000.006.22

Pushed a 10K a bit after work, with last two-thirds of a mile at sub-MP. Felt good. Back it off now for OKC, but maybe the pieces are falling together.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.260.000.000.003.26

Easy before work with Tiffany. Now off to OKC.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
43.101.800.002.3847.28
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