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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: 17.75 Month: 107.20 Year: 376.05
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
40.500.000.000.0040.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.500.000.000.003.50

PM - 3.5 miles with Riley and Finn followed by some indoor rowing.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.500.000.000.003.50

AM - basically the same as yesterday before work.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

AM - 6 miles on the treadmill (rainy morning) and 2000 meters of indoor rowing. 

Got blood test results from my physical last week.  Insanely high numbers from an endurance/fitness perspective - for which I have very little explanation except that I have not been training too hard, which may result in better labs:

RBC - 5.45 M/uL

HGB - 16.4 g/DL

Hematocrit - 48.9%

Ferritin - 131

I have not been training that much since running/slow pacing Riley and her boyfriend the NYC marathon - and my training for that race was very modest - rarely exceeding 50 mpw and no long runs greater than 16 miles.

So - I am currently uninjured and apparently quite healthy from a labs perspective.  I suppose it is time to begin some base training for a late spring marathon.  Daughter #3 will be in Rome for a study abroad and Daughter #2 wants to run the Roma marathon in April.  I have also got an entry to Grandma's marathon in June. 

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

PM - 7 miles on the treadmill at lunchtime (storms in the area) - followed by 2000 meters of indoor rowing.  My phone had a tornado warning alert go off just as I was leaving the gym - so probably a good idea that I stayed indoors.  Never saw the tornado - though my entire office building had to empty into stairwells as a precaution.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

PM - 7 miles on the treadmill after work.  Had to have a echocardiogram today.  Last week at my annual physical my EKG was abnormal.  Athletic Heart Syndrome was suspected so the additional test was required.  Had this a few years ago and was asked to do a stress test at a cardiologist then.  Will be  few days before it is confirmed from this test result.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.500.000.000.004.50

PM - 4.5 miles followed by 2000 meters of indoor rowing  

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

AM - - little over 9 miles with Finn this morning. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
40.500.000.000.0040.50
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