Bret

April 27, 2024

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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: 29.50 Month: 133.50 Year: 526.55
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AM - 5 miles easy before work. Legs no worse for the wear from the first hill session yesterday - probably took it too easy and the steepness was insufficient.  Will head down to Clearwater for tomorrow's session. 

PM - 12.5 miles on the treadmill after work due to a thunderstorm which kept me inside. 

Comments
From Bam on Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 15:26:58 from 213.191.247.242

Great news that the legs have held up and that you're not stiff. It might not be to do with how hard you worked or the steepness of the hill, it might be that your legs are stronger from all the miles.

From Bam on Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 03:32:01 from 89.204.234.197

Why do you hit the treadmill when it rains? Get out there and run in the wind and rain:)

From Bret on Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 07:09:29 from 64.128.133.66

Would like to think my legs are strong from the mileage, but after this morning, I am thinking it was just DOMS.

I generally enjoy running in the rain, but when there is lightning - I give it due respect and stay indoors. They say this area of the world is the "lightning capital." More strikes per minute per whatever. Not sure that's a scientific measure - but I can tell you that a number of people each summer are struck by lightning here.

When I was in college and worked on the beach in the summer time one year, a man was killed by a lightning strike not even a half mile from where I was working.

Sounds like you have rain quite a bit in Tralee - does that include thunderstorms too?

From Bam on Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 07:49:24 from 89.204.234.197

It probably is DOMS - 48hrs after and all that.

I was half joking about hitting the treadmill - I didn't know that the storms were that serious; you stay indoors, even if it's not raining.

We get storms but not too much lightning. I'll think twice now, about going out when there's a thunderstorm.

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