| Location: Milton,GA,USA Member Since: Jul 27, 2010 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: PR's -
Mile - 4:38 (High School)
2 Mile - 10:12 (High School)
3 mile - 15:51 (High School)
10k - 35:19 (High School)
Marathon - 2:59 marathon (London -2013)
Half marathon - 1:25:18 (Deseret News 2013)
Completed all 6 of the World Marathon Majors 2024
Completed each of the 5 majors (NY, Chicago, Boston, London & Berlin) at least twice.
8 x Boston Marathon (1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2020 (virtual due to covid) 2021, 2022)
13 x NYC Marathon (1997, 1998, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Short-Term Running Goals: Sub 3 hour marathon
Long-Term Running Goals: Continue to enjoy running and racing as long as my body permits me. Personal: Old guy - (grandfather even) been running for 40+ years. Favorite Blogs: |
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| Miles: | This week: | 34.75 |
Month: | 138.75 |
Year: | 531.80 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 153.35 | 0.00 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 159.55 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.25 |
| AM - 4.25 miles with Dan and the dogs on the new trail. The city obviously discovered that the trail had poor engineering for drainage on the trail and so it is now essentially redoing the whole thing in fixing it. But it is open for use - and the dogs love it.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| AM - 4 miles with Finn in the neighborhood.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| AM - 3 miles with Finn in the neighborhood. Hamstring was feeling better yesterday - an d not so much today.
PM - 2 miles of deep water running - I think it is helping the hamstring.
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2022 Peachtree Road Race (6.21 Miles) 00:45:41, Place overall: 1156, Place in age division: 28 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 8.20 |
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2022 Peachtree Road Race - did surprisingly reasonably well today. Had lots of excuses and reasons not to expect to run well - had a bout with COVID in the 2 weeks leading up; frustrating proximal hamstring tendonopathy that has been more problematic in the last month than it has over the last 6 month - plus it was super humid this morning - high dew point of 71 degrees. So I went in with the idea of just hoping to maintain 8 min pace and wasn't sure I could even manage that having most of my training run paces of 8:45 to 10 mins lately...
But things kinda worked out ok. I did some pool running yesterday afternoon - which seems to be helping the hamstring the following day; and although it was very warm and humid today - the start at 7 am had some low cloud cover and the sun never emerged until mid morning.
Usually my family participates in the event - but two of my girls are not in town and my other daughter would have walked it with her toddler, but they do not permit strollers. So just my son-in-law and I did it today. But today's race was the first time since the pandemic that they have held the race on one single day (last year was split over 2 days for social distancing) - and crowds were finally back and it seemed like things were back to normal.
Anyway - the first half mile was a little rough feeling - my legs felt terrible and I could not seem to find a groove. But I relaxed a little and allowed myself to get acclimated - and was very pleased with a 7:20 split for the first mile. The next two miles are downhill and I ran those both at or below 7 mins. The second half of the race is mostly uphill - the steepest is section is between 3 and 4 miles and my pace slowed to 7:40 - but I came back with a 7:30 and then 7:07 before finishing the last .2 at 6:30 pace downhill. My HR effort in the second half was probably more than I should have attempted - but at the time, it felt like I was not overreaching.
My time was literally 3 second faster this year than last year when I ran "easy" with Dan; but considering my situation this year - I could not be more pleased with this result.
PM - 1 mile of deep water running in the pool.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| AM - 3 miles easy with Finn in the neighborhood. Legs felt a bit tired as expected.
PM - 2 miles of pool running.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| AM - 5 miles with Finn - on a hilly route. Pace was quite slow. It is very humid and warm. Hamstring is really responding to the pool running - I am guessing it provides the proper bloodflow to the tendon to allow it to heal. Still doing the strengthening exercise as well.
PM - 2 miles of pool running.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.75 |
| AM - 3.75 with Finn on the horsetrail roads. Ran over to Dan's new house to check on it, as he is out of town. Really fatigued today - perhaps too much pool running the last few days and insufficient sleep.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| AM - 5 miles on the trail - several loops around the pond. Legs felt really fatigued again today. Quite warm and humid and effort on the trail was not relaxing or easy despite the slow pace.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
| AM - thunderstorms all morning - so 4 miles on the treadmill.
PM - had a birthday party for my grandaughter at the house today - weather cleared for a nice day at the pool. After clean up - I did a little over a mile of deep water running. 2 days of no pool running had my hamstring starting to ache and bother me more.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| AM - 4.25 miles with Dan and the dogs on the trail. He's back in town from a working vacation in Connecticut. Good to catch up.
PM - 2.25 deep water running miles. Not really sure how to measure this, but have been using the indoor/treadmill feature on my watch to record the "distance". Takes a good bit longer to do. I think it is more than double the amount of time in pace per mile. Guess it doesn't really matter if I am getting some therapeutic benefit and some training effect.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| AM - 5.5 miles with Dan and Finn from Dan's house and neighborhood.
PM - 1.5 miles of deep water running - more or less.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| AM - 3.5 miles with Dan and the dogs from his new place. Got a later start, so less time for a longer run.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| AM - awoke with some kind of stomach bug or indegestion - kept it slow and easy for 4 miles this morning.
PM - 2 miles of deep water running.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| AM - 4.25 miles with Dan and the dogs on the trail. Quite muddy and sloppy particularly off the main trail due to daily rains.
PM - about 2 miles of deep water running.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| AM - 1 mile to keep the streak alive - very early flight so the run was at 3 am.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| AM - 6 miles in West Virginia along the trail that parallels the Ohio River. Here for Tracy's annual family reunion.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| AM - 7.5 miles before church in WVA - slightly cooler temps here.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| AM - very early 3.5 miles before heading to the airport to go home.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| AM - 5 miles on the treadmill due to active thunderstorms in the area this morning - Finn was not happy after several days of no running with us out of town over the weekend, not to be able to run this morning.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| AM - 4.5 miles on the trail with Dan and the dogs - lots of rain over the last several days, so the areas "off trail" were quite wet, muddy and sloppy.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| AM - 5 miles total. Started outside with Dan and Finn at the horse trail roads, but a storm was building on top of us and when the lightning started, we turned back to our cars - so just over a mile before we bailed. Came home and did 4 more miles on the treadmill.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| AM - 4.5 miles around the resort area at Coronado Springs at Disney. Here with 2 my girls, my wife son-in-law and most importantly, my granddaughter for a birthday weekend. Forgot how uncomfortably humid and subtropical it is here.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| AM - 3 miles on the treadmill at the resort. The heat and humidity at the park yesterday had me very fatigued.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.60 |
| AM - my youngest daughter surprised me this for my birthday and joined me for a run around the resort. She was good for a little over 3 miles - which was really sweet - anytime I get to share a run with my kids - is a gift. I ran a bit longer and stopped at 5.6 miles as today I turned 56
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| AM - 3 miles on the treadmill at the hotel before driving home - had some GI issues - needed to be close to a restroom :(
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| AM - still with the GI issues - just 3 miles with Dan and the dogs before sunrise.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| AM - Dan and the dogs on the trail. He had an early meeting so we finished at just under 3.5 miles - and so after cleaning up the dogs and my shoes from all of the dirt and mud, I did another 2 miles on the treadmill.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| AM - 4 miles with Dan and Finn on the golf course - and because Dan had to end early to get to an appointment, I did another 2 miles on the treadmill.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| AM - 6 miles on a hilly route with Finn - hamstring is feeling so much improved - although my pace in this summer humidity is pretty pedestrian it is so nice not to be running in pain.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| AM - 5.5 miles with Greg
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| AM - 8.5 miles between the treadmill and outdoors with Finn in the neighborhood.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 153.35 | 0.00 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 159.55 |
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