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
43.170.000.000.0043.17
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

Miserable day for a run. Gray, cold, windy, got increasingly so of all of the above as the run went on. Legs didn't feel good. PLanned 12. In spite of all that, did 12 at sub-9 pace. Wouldn't have done that two years ago for sure, maybe not 18 months. I'm tougher now. I'm also withing striking distance of 2500.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.950.000.000.004.95

Felt like I was coming down with something last night, so took the night off. Didn't feel much if any better today, but with NYD looming, need to get those last few miles to get to 2500. So I did almost 5 tonight before the expected snow hits in a couple of hours. Actually felt better than I thought I would; breathing was OK, although the legs were a little achy as if I had/have the flu. But had no trouble maintaining a respectable recovery-type pace. Now less than 8 miles to the 2500 level.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.370.000.000.0010.37

Felt much better this morning, so I took Tyler to visit his friend Sean this afternoon and went for a run on the River Trail while they were visiting. Felt really weird to be back on that stretch of trail after more than three months' absence. Was able to run a nice negative split -- 9:20 pace on the outward leg, 8:21 on the inward, then a cooldown jog after I got back to the car. Total 10.37. Finished the year at 2502 miles and change, on 302 runs. Another goal checked off.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.650.000.000.005.65

Slow and easy for the first run of the new year. Worked up quite a sweat in the bright sunshine, even though it's in the low 40s. But I'm now 5.65 miles ahead of where I was at this time last year. Run early tomorrow with the Crackheads before we go to the bowl game in Memphis (I think, pending what the sister-in-law wants to do).

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.200.000.000.0010.20

Joined the Crackheads this morning for a very cold run from ADEQ near Cook's Landing. Wound up going 10-plus at a pretty good clip; it was too cold to run slow. Then went home, showered, changed and left for the bowl game in Memphis, which was even colder. Brrr. But at least we won.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
43.170.000.000.0043.17
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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