| 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 | | 156.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 156.50 |
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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 this morning on the golf course with Finn. Dark and dreary out. Foot seems to tolerate the grass surface the best.
PM - cross train at lunch. 30 mins on a stationary bike and then 25 mins on the indoor rower followed by some stretching and foam rolling. The bike at the gym was one of the "tour de france" bikes advertised seemingly incessantly on tv. Surprised that it was actually fairly well-built and functioned properly - as television ads tend to oversell products such as these in my experience.
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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 golf course - rainy foggy morning - the course was very soggy with rain most of the night. Foot actually felt good before I started and really no worse after. Pace was remarkably slow, but it was a run nonetheless; and I am glad I have the option of running on the grass course as a viable alternative of roads or treadmill.
PM - lunchtime - 40 mins on the stationary bike at the gym.
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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 |
| PM - 4.5 miles on the golf course with Finn after work.
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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 - 6.5 miles with Chris who is a friend of my girls - a bunch of them came up for the SEC Championship game today. Quite cold in the upper 20's to lower 30's when we went out. Turns out Chris' mom holds the masters record for the Turkey Trot in Clearwater. Had a nice hilly route and good conversation.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| PM - 10 miles on a mild afternoon.
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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 |
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PM - 5 miles on the treadmill at the gym.
Got blood work results back today from about 2 weeks ago. RBC - 4.92; HGB - 14.6; HCT 44.4% and Ferritin 100.6.
Really pretty pleased - particularly with the Ferritin which 2 years ago was less than 20.
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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 - roughly 6 miles outside at lunchtime today. Everyday is a bit of an unknown as to what the foot will feel like (lately more days than not, it has been tolerable) - today the issues were both in the lower leg (posterior tibial) and in the metatarsals. The mental image of what's going on in the foot would be something like a bag full of hard candies runover by a car a couple of times.
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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 after work.
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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. 2 days in a row with relatively little discomfort before and after the run (so far).
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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 on the treadmill after work.
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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 |
| PM - spent most of the day at a workday at the church - landscape clean up etc. and then came home to do my own. Quite tired by the end of the day - so just 4 miles on the treadmill to finish out the week with over 40 miles for a change.
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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 |
| PM - literally had only time to run 1 mile on the treadmill in blue jeans - with so much going on today.
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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 after work.
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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 on the treadmill at lunchtime.
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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 - a little over 6 miles at lunchtime outside. Very nice weather.
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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 on the treadmill this morning before work.
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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 or so this morning. In St Pete for a bit. Planned to connect with the long running group this morning but had some issues arise that got me out too late. Saw a few groups but not the right ones. Anyway - decent run after a couple of days rest to the foot. Some discomfort after.
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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 - around 6.5 miles this morning with my friend Brian who works downtown and runs erly before starting. Quicker pace for him than I had expected - but after the first mile or so I settled in.
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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 - roughly 7 miles this morning in St. Pete - mostly on the bayfront and Snell Isle. Quite warm and sticky out this morning. Daughter had surgery yesterday which is the reason we are here - rather involved procedured called a maxillary osteotomy - which basically means they reposition her upper jaw and move it forward to properly align with the lower jaw - involves cutting bones and fastening them back into place and then "wiring" (elastics) her mouth shut for several weeks. Her treating physician is located here and was treating her before our move and so rather than re-establish with a new doc, she had the work done here. Long day yesterday of getting up at 4 am and then hanging out at the hospital all day and into the evening for her recovery. Everything went well. Recovery will be tough and painful, but she's doing very well today - and will out out of the hospital tomorrow.
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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 around noon time in St. Pete - 75 degress 100% humidity 70 degree dew point. In other words, uncomfortable weather for running.
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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 - Merry Christmas- I went out for a run along the Bayfront and past Coffee Pot Bayou- up 1st street NE and then cut over the 4th on the way back. When I passed the old Sunken Gardens - I got nostalgic and detoured over the Crescent Lake Park which was the site of my High School Cross Country district champ meets way back in the day. Not exactly cross country- as it was about 85% sidewalk - looks exactly the same now as it did then, Rob Murphy. I took a loop around the lake and recalled one of the few races that I bested Mr. Murphy - a tri meet with like Dixie Hollins and maybe St Pete High. The only reason I remember the race is because our coach had decided to do an audio recording play by play of the race (not sure why) and Rob had been battling a guy for second place who may have started to pull away and at the same time I was kicking from a ways back and caught Rob in the last few meters. The coach's commentary was overly complimentary to me and much less charitable to Rob's performance - which we all thought was a bit unfair at the time and at the same time pretty funny the way he called the race.
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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 - a little over 6 miles this evening at sundown.
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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 - about 8 miles this morning with Richie around the bayfront.
PM - foot is in signficant disorder - pain and dysfunction. Crazy. My body is like old parts on a car getting worn out and breaking. Plan to stay off running tomorrow and get an appointment with the doctor this week. I suspect another stress fracture but not in one of the metatarsals this time. Time for some cross training.
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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 - went to the gym near my St. Pete office with the intention of doing some cross training - but was delighted to see that they had installed an Alter G treadmill - so I signed up for the week while we are here - and today did 8.5 AlterG miles at 50% of my body weight - which was really quite tolerable for the foot. I have an appointment with an orthopeadist on Wednesday.
PM - went with Riley to the North Shore pool and swam some laps - on a really nice day - probably about 1000 yards.
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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 - 9 Alter G miles - I wish I had one of these close to my home or office in ATL - and as reasonably priced as this one near my St. Pete office.
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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 Alter G miles - the faster pace has resulted in sore /tight hamstrings. Went to the doctor about the foot. The good news is that the X-rays and clinical exam did not reveal a stress fracture. The bad news is they did not have any real diagnosis. They did give me a steroid injection in one of the painful areas. I was a bit surprised that none of the doctors had heard of the Alter G treadmill - and this was a sports medicine place.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 156.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 156.50 |
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