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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Took the day off. Glutes a little sore, legs a little tired, just decided not to run.

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Planned to do 16 inside today. Because the glutes were still hurting, and because of the importance of hydrating even on an indoor run, decided to break it into two-mile segments, at least initially -- run, drink, stretch. From a hydration standpoint, it worked well. From the standpoint of the glutes loosening, no. They got worse, not better. After six segments, I bagged it. Felt like going further invited more/long lasting problems. Even so, I ran the last two miles at 8:30ish pace. Overall average 9:03. We'll see how the glute feels tomorrow. It's the same place that has been bugging me off and on for a couple of years, just refused to loosen today.

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Glute felt a little better today, so decided to test it. It was still sore, but got better as the run went on. I was able to progress the run decently, although not certain of paces due to lack of a watch today. Ended up with 67 laps. Could easily have gone farther, but T was waiting on me after his workout and, again, I didn't want to overdo it and set myself back. I still think I need to do some hill work, either actually outside or on the mill, which should help with the glute issue. But overall, compared to where I was 24 hours ago, I'm pretty pleased.

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Mile repeats on the mill tonight. It rained earlier and was almost cool (85) but horribly humid. I probably would have done this on the mill anyway to keep the paces where I wanted them, especially with SHS still out of commission. Tonight it was 10K pace (7:24) X 5 with 440 jog intervals. With warmup/cooldown, a 10-mile workout. Hard. Very hard, especially with the glutes still on strike. But a good workout to get done.

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14.390.000.000.0014.39

Went out to run with the Crackheads at ADEQ this morning. Temp 79, dewpoint 77. Once the sun got over the trees, it quickly became brutal. I started out with ROUD plans, bumped them up to 14 miles when I felt pretty good through 6. Bad move. By 9, I was ready to bail -- but I was five miles from the car. That last 5 was as much walking as running, maybe more, and the whole 14.4 took me three hours. I don't know that I could have finished if I'd tried to do, say, 16. There wasn'was very little left in the tank when I got back to ADEQ.

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