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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
47.004.000.000.0051.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

AM - 7 miles early in the morning in Rome.  Ran along the footpath next to the Tiber River.  Interesting odors down there...Riley had told me about a month ago they had so much rain that the river neared flood stage and I would not have been able to run on this particular path because it was under water.  Below are a couple of photos of the path and debris (trees etc) to show how far up the waters were.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wEXidvILZYH3YtV3aRoL89MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/HLFaMjYZFvdqgkD7q1Wj09MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink

 

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AM - in Rome, I met my daughter, Riley and her boyfriend, Arturo,  for a run a really beautiful park called Villa Borghese gardens.  Ran up the Spanish Steps and meadered around the park.  Her boyfriend doesn't speak English - and I don't speak much Italian, so Riley translated.  She had 2 semesters of Itialian in college, but in the last 2-3 months she's been there, it would appear that she's become pretty fluent in the language.    

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Up early for ride to the airport.  Long flight with a couple of delays... one by the airline, and one by me.  After 12.5 hours of flight, I got to the airport parking lot last night only to find out I had lost my car keys... So that happened.

No time for a run.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

AM - 5 miles easy at home.  Did not sleep very long, due to jet lag - so got out for a pleasant moderate run before my first call at work at 6:30 am.    Have to travel late today to Dallas for meeting tomorrow.

PM - 4 more at lunchtime.  Trying to work off the pizza and pasta.

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.004.000.000.007.00

AM - in Dallas for a meeting today. Hopped on the treadmill and did 4 miles at MP after a 2 mile warm up and then did a 1 mile cool down. Catching a cold - it seems.

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AM - 4 miles easy before work.  Have a cold.  Felt crappy.

PM - 6 miles at lunch with Richie.  Beautiful day.

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AM - 14 miles this morning from my house out to the end of the Dunedin Causeway and Honeymoon Island and then back on the Pinellas Trail.  Really felt pretty lousy with this bad head cold.  Happy to have gotten the miles in though.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
47.004.000.000.0051.00
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