| 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: | 26.50 |
Month: | 93.00 |
Year: | 486.05 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 85.70 | 30.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 115.92 |
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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 |
| PM - 5 miles on the treadmill at lunchtime
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.50 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| AM - 2 mile warm up outside with Finn and then 2x2 miles at MP with a 400 meter rest. Did not feel comfortable today. Something is “off”. Travel out of town today for a management retreat with golf.
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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 |
| AM - 5k on the golf course before sunrise at this resort near Cartersville GA called Barnsley Gardens - unfortunately my headlamp malfunctioned and I had to turn around because it was too dark to safely make my way around the cart path in the wooded areas.
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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 around Barnsley Gardens - really slowly. Not feeling all that well.
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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 |
| AM - 5k with Finn in the neighborhood. Head to Chicago this evening.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.50 |
| AM - 2.5 miles with Richie in Chicago around Grant Park. Heavy rains and thunderstorms throughout the night - light rain this morning. Richie has a cold - sounds like Doc. Holiday. Heavy humid air and warm with rain forecast for tomorrow morning's race.
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| | Race: |
Chicago Marathon (26.22 Miles) 03:26:46, Place overall: 5196 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 26.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.22 |
| Chicago Marathon - I had a pretty good result today. Richie and I had planned to run together after having missed a couple of opportunities to run earlier this year. He ended up with a pretty bad cold but insisted that he was up for the race. He sounded terrible and was coughing a good bit. Nevertheless he was running 8 min pace - which was probably slightly slower than my fitness but I wanted to enjoy the event with him. I could tell though around 12 miles he started to “yo-yo” and when we approached the 15 mile mark - he told me that he was at his limit and was not going to finish. We talked about it a bit but I think he could tell that I was feeling well and so we agreed that I would not hang back or coax him along.
So - feeling the opportunity to maybe get down to a 3:25 finish - I did some quick math and thought I needed to run 7:30’s for the next 10 miles. I proceeded to do that for the next 3 miles but seeing the strain on my heart rate - I moderated to mid 7:40’s. Around mile 23 - the wind and the rain and the miles slowed me down a little. When I could calculate that I was not going to get down to 3:25 - I ran the last 2 miles just around 8 mins - finishing at 3:27.
I am pleased with the race. Part of me thinks that I might have run a bit faster if I had not stayed with Richie as long as I had; but maybe the lighter effort helped me to sustain later in the race and negative split.
I connected with Richie afterwards and he was fine and happy that I continued on and ran as well as I did. All in all - a good day.
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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 - had to travel to Baltimore for a conference yesterday afternoon following the race and my flight was delayed - got in late - plus my legs needed some rest.
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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 mile run very slowly around the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. Two Navy ships were preparing to head out as I made my way around.
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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 |
| PM - lunchtime - 3 miles on the treadmill at a recovery effort again. Nothing really hurts or is sore, but definitely have some deep tissue fatigue in the upper legs. Good stretching and rolling afterwards.
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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 |
| AM - 5k in the rain with Finn from the remnants of Hurricane Michael. Still feeling fatigue from the race on Sunday, but Finn really needed the exercise.
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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 outside at lunchtime at the office. Weather is really nice - dry and cool - autumn-like finally. Feeling a bit better gradually each day. No more fatigue in the legs though still feel a bit like I need some more recovery days until everything gets back to normal.
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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 |
| PM - 6 easy miles - no watch - with Finn.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.10 |
| PM - 4.1 miles with Finn around the neighborhood in the evening.
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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 |
| PM - 5 miles on the treadmill at lunchtime. Finally starting to feel normal when I am running.
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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 - just under 4 miles this morning before work with Finn in the neighborhood. Ran into Dan - he was actually hoping to find me out so that we could run together. Nice chat with him. As always we ran much faster than I would prefer - especially in the morning - but still conversational.
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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.
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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. Tracy was really sick and I had to tend to her and eventually took her to the hospital where she had to be admitted for pneumonia.
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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 |
| AM - 5k with Finn to get him some exercise.
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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 with Dan and Finn around the golf course on a wet rainy morning.
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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 |
| PM - 7 miles outside on a really nice weather afternoon. I think the humidity was like only 26%. Ran with Finn - maybe a little to fast, but felt good once I got going.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| PM - 10k with Richie around the office at lunchtime. Nice run. He was in town for business and we went to the Monday night Falcon's game last night.
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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 |
| PM - 5 miles on the treadmill at a very aerobic pace.
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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 |
| PM - 6 miles outdoors at lunchtime on a hilly route. Not feeling all that great...may be catching something.
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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 in NYC - here on business. Have some kind of virus with a fever cannot seem to shake it.
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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 |
| Sick!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 85.70 | 30.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 115.92 |
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