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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: 21.75 Month: 111.20 Year: 380.05
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
41.502.0012.500.0056.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.000.000.000.000.00

Rest day

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.002.000.000.007.00

PM - back at the office after 2 weeks of travel left me very little time for a run and still jet lagged.  Was able to get on the treadmill after work and before a church meeting - 5 moderate miles followed by 2 miles at MRP - which was good to get the blood flowing.  Very lathargic though later and struggling to get back on a routine sleep schedule. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.006.000.0010.00

PM - after work - another busy day back in the office.  I have been too tired in the morning to get up to do an early run - so my mileage will suffer a bit this week while I readjust time zones.  This was a pretty good workout for me.  2 mile warm up and 2 mile cool down.  6 x 5 mins at threshold pace with a 1 min rest between.  Have been doing similar workouts to this on the treadmill, but decided to do this one outside.  The treadmill keeps me locked into the threshold pace of 6:21 to 6:24 but doing this outside was a bit of a challenge to find the right feel for the pace.  The first 4 were well below that pace 6:07, 6:13, 6:08 and 6:18 with the last two at 6:29 which averages to 6:17 - and I was "feeling it" on the last two - hopefully still got what was intended out of this workout despite perhaps going a little too quickly.   

Looked back at last year's workouts from this time period and this seems consistent with what I was doing then - though just going by memory of the workouts, I think I feel more depth to my endurance than last year at this time.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

PM - 9.0 miles recovery run outside midday.  Not as warm as it was a few weeks ago, but certainly warmer than the runs I did in Australia and NZ - Felt somewhat weak in the quads and overall still dragging a bit. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

PM - lunchtime - 10 miles on the treadmill at 7:35 pace.  Nothing special - felt ok.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.500.006.500.0020.00

PM - on the treadmill.  20 miles.  Did it as a workout.  2 mile warm up then 4 x 5 mins at 6:24 pace with 2 min rest; then 10 miles at 7:30 pace; then 3 x 5 mins at 6:24 pace with 2 min rest and 1.5 mile cool down.  Very good workout after having some GI issues yesterday that kept me from running.

 

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
41.502.0012.500.0056.00
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