| 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: | 17.50 |
Month: | 84.00 |
Year: | 477.05 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 184.85 | 0.00 | 8.20 | 0.00 | 193.05 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| PM - just under 8 miles on some dirt roads along horse farms with Finn.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| AM - 5.75 miles with Finn on a relaxed Labor Day morning.
PM - 5.25 slow miles on the treadmill
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| AM - 3.5 slow easy miles with Finn before work. Noticed a few little dings...right achilles and left foot top.
PM - lunchtime - treadmill fartlek workout. Basically 1 min on/off at 5k pace with a warm up and cool down. Felt fine on this workout. Not too taxing.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| AM - I decided that I would prefer not to have the "discomfort" that I noticed in the top of the left foot advance/progress any worse - and honestly it is barely noticeable - but I have been down this road before with stress fractures; so I walked 2 miles with Finn this morning instead of running and then did some rowing and yoga thereafter. Will likely do some elliptical machine work at lunchtime.
Looked back at a similar issue I had in February/March 2018. Took about 10 days of cross-training to drop out of any mention in the day logs. My memory is that this is probably less severe than that, so I will plan to cross train for a few days or a week and gradually reintroduce some running as tolerated.
PM - 8 miles on the elliptical at an HR rate equivalent to a solid running effort (without the pounding). I don't particularly like ellipticals or cross training, but as I listened to the "Running to the Edge" book and the discussion about Meb - they mentioned that he would use elliptical machines and ellipti-go bikes as cross training to moderate the workload/pounding that running was putting on his aging body. It inspired me to keep at it.
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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 - 2 miles walking with Finn before work. Foot felt nearly 100%. Quads were heavy from yesterday's cross training however.
PM - 5.5 miles on the elliptical. Not as high of an effort as yesterday. Feel remarkably better with just 2 days of cross training instead of running.
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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 |
| PM - took Finn to Birmingham Park for a trail run. Mostly single track - a bit technical. Soft surfaces were good for my foot. Really did not notice it.
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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 - Finn got me out at daybreak today for an easy hour of running. Pleasant morning. Hilly route - horses out in pastures, deer all over and roosters crowing - couple of hot air balloons in the sky as we finished. No foot issues.
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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 - 5.25 miles with Finn before church.
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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 - in San Antonio for a business conference - random run out and back on what turned out to be a bit of a sketchy area - hot and humid even before sunrise. Not enjoyable. Oh well.
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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 - a little over 7.5 miles mostly along the river walk in San Antonio. Really buggy with swarms of gnats - and as a result a bunch of bats. Spent a fair amount of time dealing with avoiding swallowing and inhaling the gnats. Slow but decent run.
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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 with Finn and Dan in the neighborhood. He's just back from vacation in the Greek Isles - sounded amazing.
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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 - foot started feeling a little injury-like after yesterday’s easy double. So I just did 3 easy miles with Finn and Dan. Heading to Clearwater later today.
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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 - staying on Clearwater Beach - here for a business luncheon - retirement for one of my paralegals and then my 35th class reunion this evening. You know you are old when ... Anyway - I ran on the beach in the old Vibram shoes. Enjoyed it. Easy effort. Concerned about the left foot at times and at other times not at all. Many years of running and racing on these sands. Evidently the Dunedin pass on the north end no longer exists because my gps tells me I ran over it on to Caledesi Island but I never saw it.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.50 |
| AM - 16.5 miles in Virginia Beach. Came here yesterday to stay with my brother-in-law for a few days. He lives about 10 minutes or so from the Ocean by car, but the roads to get there are a little dangerous for running; so I found a lake in a nearby subdivision with a running / walking path around it and did laps. Each loop was between 1.5 and 1.75 miles. Flat and humid, but a good run.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| No running - as I am being careful to rest / recover from workouts and long runs.
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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 - a little over 6 miles with Finn before work.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 12.20 |
| AM - 3.5 miles with Finn - very easy before work - and travel late this evening to the UK.
PM - lunchtime treadmill workout. Cruise intervals 5 x 2000 at tempo with a 1 min rest. Felt strong at the beginning of this workout - as I have been sort of resting and not running too intensely due to the somewhat fickle left foot pain/injury. Good workout.
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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 |
| PM - 3.5 miles in London shortly after I arrived and before meetings and dinner.
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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 Hyde Park in London before a day of business meetings. Did not feel all that great today.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.25 |
| AM - 15.25 miles in London. From my hotel around Hyde Park, in front of Buckingham Palace, down the Mall, across Westminster Bridge (Big Ben in scaffolds) along the River Thames, across Tower Bridge and back around. Really nice weather beautiful day before grabbing breakfast and heading to the airport for 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 |
| Planned day of rest from running.
Did 12.5 miles of low impact riding on the Peloton bike. Did something to my neck, no trauma that I can recall, but it really is stiff and is getting increasingly worse.
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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 |
| Rode the Peloton bike after walking a mile or so with Finn outside. Did a mile on the treadmill of walking at a 12% grade - neck hurts and foot was achy too.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| AM - 2 miles of walking with Finn and then some yoga. Neck was excruciating - did not sleep well, and literally could not run without pain. Chiropractic appt this morning.
PM - lunchtime - did 7.5 miles on the elliptical at decent HR - equivalent to an easy run. Chiro did an adjustment to my neck - will be seeing him for several days over the few weeks...Neck improved a bit after the adjustment. Feeling pretty banged up.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| 2 mile walk before travel to Vegas for a business conference.
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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 - 5.25 miles in Vegas before sunrise. Neck finally felt stable enough for a run.
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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 in Vegas before finishing up the conference and heading home.
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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 - 7 miles with Finn before sunrise on a warm and humid morning. Neck issue is about 80% resolved.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 |
| PM - 5k with Finn - so as to not take a zero. Ran a bit quickly.
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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 easy with Finn before a day trip to Arkansas for business. Another busy travel week ahead.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 184.85 | 0.00 | 8.20 | 0.00 | 193.05 |
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