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MacArthur Park 5K

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Oct 19, 2010

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Running Accomplishments:

Arkansas Traveller 100: 1st Place; October 7, 2017

Arkansas Traveller 100: 1st Place; October 1, 2016

Arkansas Traveller 100: 15:36:33, 1st Place (Course Record);  October 3, 2015

Arkansas Traveller 100: 15:59:12, 1st Place; October 4, 2014 

War Eagle Tail Twister 50K: 4:07:12, 2nd Place; June 3, 2017

2017 New York City Marathon: 2:53:59; November 5, 2017

2013 Boston Marathon: 2:59:11; April 1, 2013

PR, Sleeping Bear Marathon: 2:45:41, 1st Place; October 7, 2012

PR, Soaring Wings Half Marathon: 1:20:33, 8th Place; October 29, 2011

Personal:

Pride necessarily sprouts and grows; a pride that can only come from relentless kneading of unwilling flesh, painful months of grinding and burning away all that is heavy, all that is strength-sapping and useless to the body as a projectile. --John L. Parker, Jr., runner/author

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Fri, May 09, 2014
Race: MacArthur Park 5K (3.11 Miles) 00:18:28, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.003.007.00

Nice warm and humid night for the MacArthur Park 5K in downtown Little Rock. My company's (Entergy, the largest public utility in Arkansas) four-person team won the "Corporate Cup" and took home the hardware, a pretty awesome statute of General Douglass MacArthur, who was born in Arkansas.

In addition to winning the team competition with a cumulative time of 88 minutes, Dave finished first in the 55-59 age group, Dad finished third in the 55-59 age group, Heather (another co-worker and the mandatory female member of our team) finished first in the 31-35 age group, and I finished second overall.

My Garmin showed 3.24 Miles in 18:28 (5:43).

7 Total Miles or so including warm-up and a couple of miles commuting earlier today.

Wesley

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
Comments
From Rob Murphy on Fri, May 09, 2014 at 22:14:47 from 24.10.249.34

MacArthur is one of those rare historical figures that I have a hard time figuring out. Too many conflicting character traits going on there.

From Glory in the long run on Sat, May 10, 2014 at 09:22:01 from 24.151.171.49

Nice race, were you close to 1st place?

Ditto MacArthur's ambivalence. I feel he was a good military guy who got pulled into the fray and was unfortunately on the wrong side of genocide, but his arrogance consumed him? Possibly not genocidal, but was part of the machinations of a gov't struggling with caring for a society and encountering new lands and cultures.

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