Getting back to Boston

Watermelon 5K

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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
26.200.003.112.5031.81
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.780.000.000.007.78

Progression run with Sheri and the crew. Humid. Not much else to report.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.100.000.000.006.10

Recovery run with Sheri's 5:15 a.m. group. Kept it slow which worked for me in the 90% humidity.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.200.000.002.504.70

800 repeats in the dark with the speedburners. Did reasonably OK for my first speed work in a while.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.040.000.000.005.04

81 degrees at dawn. Yuck. Got it done, barely

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.080.000.000.004.08

Bailed out on the bike trail loop this morning. I was sluggish, slow and nauseated.Then a thunderstorm hit as I was going back to the shelter and my car. No french fry status fortunately. But not a good run at all. Dewpoint was 78 as we ran.

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Race: Watermelon 5K (3.107 Miles) 00:24:32, Place overall: 91, Place in age division: 10
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.000.003.110.004.11

Struggled with the heat, the humidity, the lack of breeze and very little sleep. But not as much as Jenny, who I saw walking three different times. Managed top 10 AG anyway, so a lot of people were struggling. Hopefully there will be more GP points than that as some weren't GP runners. I couldn't even get to my goal pace at the start, much less maintain it, and from there... My goal shifted to not walking and breaking 25:00 and I managed to do both.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
26.200.003.112.5031.81
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