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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.  

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Miles:This week: 23.75 Month: 113.20 Year: 382.05
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
57.500.004.000.0061.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.000.000.000.0014.00

AM - last day in Sydney before heading to Melbourne.  Cold, rainy and windy, but I did not want to get on the treadmill again.  Ran around the harbor and across the bridge and back - felt very fatigued from the ups and downs of the terrain and from the long travel week by the end.

 

PM - short flight to Melbourne and a little daylight left allowed me to get a quick 4 miles in and take in a view of the city.  A run is really a great way to see a town when travelling.

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

AM - in Melbourne - easy to moderate 8 miles on a cool morning in the 40's.  Really pretty run through some parks and botanical gardens in the City - amazing how much faster I run when the temperature is not in the 90's with 80% or higher humidity.  I think I averaged 7:15 pace without much effort.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.004.000.008.00

PM - in Auckland, New Zealand 4 miles rather quickly at close to 7 min pace and then 4 miles at threshold (6:25) pace or better along the water (Hobson Bay) in very cool temps in the 40's.  Had a long day of travel yesterday from Melbourne with a 3 hour time difference in NZ - putting us 17 hours ahead of US Eastern time - we arrived after midnight, took a hotel near the airport and then with only a few hours sleep headed to our offices in Whangarei NZ (pronounced with an "F" sound so it is "Fon Gar Ay") and then back around 4 pm in enough time for a run.  Would have loved to go further south to Nelson to see the US match in World Cup Rugby but it would have been too tight of a schedule and besides, I would have missed a great run.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

AM - 10 miles on a brisk Auckland, NZ morning - I purposely held myself to 7:30 pace - as I noticed I was really hammering a lot of my runs with the cooler weather, just because it felt so easy - but then was getting fatigued later after the run - so this was a good respite.  Heading to Singapore this afternoon - where the weather will not be as comfortable. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.500.000.000.0015.50

AM - 7.5 miles in a pre-dawn smoky, humid Singapore morning.  Travel from NZ yesterday with a 10 hour flight and a 5 hour timezone change had my body confused about normal sleep cycles - got about 5 hours of sleep last night but was up really early and decided to go out for a run to kill time before breakfast and business meetings today.  May get a second run in later today before heading back home.

 

PM - 8.0 miles in and around a jungle outside of downtown Singapore - a technical trail run with twists, turns, hills, rocks, roots, monkeys, crocs (or something like a croc) and plenty of heat and humidity.  Actually got turned around and ran further than planned, but it was a good workout to wear me out before my long flight home tonight to help me sleep.  If I could figure out how to post a video or photos on this blog - there was a very unexpected moment where a monkey came up and took Richie's drink bottle and opened it for himself as we were taking photos.  Really interesting experience.

 

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

AM - yesterday was a very long travel day of over 26 hours -- so although I was back home by 3 pm - I was too tired to consider a run and instead took a nap.  Daughter #2 was in her high school's homecoming court, so I had to be rested to escort her across the field at halftime during the football game.  Sleep cycles are altered from multiple travel days in different time zones and so I was up early this morning after only 5 hours of sleep but decided to get a short run in to shake things out.  Weather was very pleasant with a cool front having blown through last night. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
57.500.004.000.0061.50
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