Getting back to Boston

ARK 5k Classic

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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
38.440.507.110.0046.05
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.004.000.0010.00

On the treadmill after work. Averaged sub-9 for the first 6, then cranked it up to 7.6 for a couple of miles and finished at 7.9 mph. Overall did 10 miles in 1:25:xx. Felt pretty good really, considering lack of sleep. Sweat was flying thought. Heart rate seemed to be around 130 at the finish, the 120s otherwise. Although the data from the HRM makes no sense upon download...

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.500.500.000.007.00

After essentially sleeping through Monday, hit the mill before my half-shift at work tonight. Cruised 6.5 then put it at 7.6 for the last half mile. Gonna try to get up at 4 and run with Kathy then get another few hours sleep before going to Bentonville and/or working on my CME stuff. But we'll see how running on three hours of sleep goes.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.020.000.000.008.02

Warm. Humid. Steamy. Slow. Crampy. Other than that, this morning's run went fine. Actually it wasn't that slow. Kathy got to jabbering again and as usual was going sub-9 while her mouth was in gear. We slowed down a bunch when she peeled off and went back to her house. Then I got GI cramps at 7.2 and had to walk for about 0.2 while they subsided, then picked back up and finished the run. Not fun. Still kinda crampy in fact. And I haven't been to sleep yet after working until midnight. I'm about to go correct that.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.300.000.000.008.30

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.100.000.000.005.10

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Race: ARK 5k Classic (3.107 Miles) 00:24:01, Place overall: 89, Place in age division: 6
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.520.003.110.007.63

Another losing battle with the humidity. Not what I hoped for, but what I expected. This is the third time I've run this race and the third different course I've seen. This one was a 1.86-mile loop around the tennis center at Burns Park; we did a lap and a half and finished on the back side. Downhill finish, fortunately, but more undulations than I wanted to deal with. Mile 2 was rough. I was trying to at least keep Cortney in sight ahead of me and eventually failed. Just struggled through the best I could. If you'd asked me for a prerace prediction I would have guessed around 24 and hoped for 22, and the guess would have been correct. Still got 6th AG, but then there were only 8 in my group. Bleah. And a 62-year-old guy beat me. Double bleah. Hoping I'll do a little better than that when GP points are handed out tomorrow. If I'd run goal/PR I'd have gotten 2nd AG and probably top 55 overall.

I just have to hope that my body will respond when the temperatures and the humidity are both below 50 in Utah. It was overcast and there was a tiny bit of breeze which made it slightly less intolerable, but everybody seemed to be suffering with the humidity.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
38.440.507.110.0046.05
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