| Location: Fort Smith,AR,USA Member Since: Jan 01, 2008 Gender: Male Goal Type: Boston Qualifier Running Accomplishments: Dec. 5, 2009 -- St. Jude Memphis Marathon, 3:31:56. Boston qualifier for 2011. Two-time Boston finisher. 19 marathons so far in 10 states, Canada, Germany, England and Sweden. Next up: London (4/25/17)
5K -- 21:57; 10K -- 45:54; 20K-- 1:42:39, Half -- 1:39:30. All subject to improvement. Maybe. Or maybe not. Short-Term Running Goals: Short-term: Just get my motivation back and go from there Long-Term Running Goals: A lot of marathons, and other distances, slowly. Personal: Physician assistant/hospitalist, divorced since December 2010, one child (son). Ran high school track, took 10 years off, ran a 15K on my 25th birthday, took off next 21 years. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 50.71 | 26.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 76.93 |
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Little Rock Marathon (26.22 Miles) 04:46:15 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 26.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.22 |
| Condensed version: Started with 4:30 pace group, felt good, left pace group behind at about the 3-mile aid station. Big mistake. Temperature warmed quickly; felt thirsty at about 10 miles even with taking fluids. Trouble. Had to start walking even before reaching 13.1 at the Capitol. Kavanaugh Hill also a bunch of walking. Hoped to make up time on Lookout downhill. Nope. Hamstring cramped very quickly. Tried to resume running at bottom of the hill. More cramps. Run quickly settled into pattern of run a little-cramp-walk a lot-repeat. Pace group finally caught and passed me at about 20 miles. Next pace group caught and passed me. No chance of running on ANYTHING resembling a hill, but I was going to finish no matter what. Saw Tyler on course about .75 mile from finish; how did he get up here, he doesn't walk that far ever. Finally, at Statehouse Center about quarter mile from finish, Julie, who has been waiting for me for 2.5 hours after finishing her half, jumps the wall and runs with me. I'm hurting seriously, but I'm going to finish. Pam is there too and I never even saw her. As I turn off LaHarpe to the finish, cramps hit again, but I run/limp to the finish. Exhaustion, disappointment, pain, but tears of joy too. This old guy has finished a marathon. Zero to marathon in 34 weeks. Dick Beardsley said in "Spirit of the Marathon" that once you've finished 26.2, you'll never be the same again. I suspect I'm going to find he's exactly right. |
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| No way I can run today, or work (took the day off), but I went back and totaled up my miles. Ran 728 miles from July 7 to yesterday. Probably hadn't run 72 miles total in the 21 years preceding that. It was hard, but I did it. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
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Raining like heck yesterday when I took Julie to the airport. That later turned to snow. First attempt at running today, a very slow mile on the TM. Didn't feel too bad today returning to work either, and my coworkers made a big deal out of it. Put a picture of me wearing my marathon medal (which is HUGE) on the bulletin board in the patient waiting room. Boss also told me he'd pay me $1000 if I keep going and run another marathon. I was going to do that anyway, because I'm POd at my poor performance Sunday, but a little financial incentive doesn't hurt. Not sure where I'm going to run next, maybe Memphis in December. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Another slow recovery mile. Legs not TOO bad... |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.11 |
| When I got off work it was snowing -- hard (this after 70 degrees Sunday afternoon; it's snowed TWICE this week). Changed clothes immediately and went for a run. I've never run in the snow before, but I looped around the neighborhood behind my apartments. Probably went faster than I should have, took 19:36 to run 2.1. Fun. Have to do this again when weather permits, which doesn't happen much around here. Maybe during my vacation in a couple of weeks. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.50 |
| No Crackhead run this weekend, our only weekend off of the year. Took the whole weekend off, ran today. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Hill run today |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Easy treadmill run. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.02 |
| Eight-miler on the River Trail with Pat Koss. Felt pretty good. Actually able to push the pace a little and put on a bit of a kick. Legs not too excited about that kick; hammy tried to cramp up again as I finished. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.50 |
| Recovery on the TM |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 |
| Recovery on the TM |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 |
| Another recovery run on the TM |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.04 |
| Six-mile run on the Rahling loop, meaning BIG hills. Leaving this afternoon for St. Louis, Chicago and Wisconsin Dells. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.03 |
| Spent Saturday night in the St. Louis suburbs, drove through the snow to Chicago and got in some great sightseeing. Today drove from my downtown hotel over to Lincoln Park and ran four miles along the lakefront. Bitterly cold (21 degrees), but a beautiful morning and a very pleasant run in spite of the cold. We're heading for Wisconsin this afternoon. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.01 |
| Another four mile run today, this time around Christmas Mountain Village outside Wisconsin Dells. This is a ski area, and the slopes have plenty of snow, but they're closed. Too bad. I would have liked to give it a try. As you would expect for a ski area, it's fairly hilly around here. My loop went from the village out to the main highway (not much traffic) and back up hill into the village. We have a nice little cabin, not real plush but comfortable, looking out on the golf course (which is also snow-covered and closed). So we have skiing and golf here and I can't do either one. Oh well. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| Back home from Wisconsin, and it's a lot warmer and more humid here. Six miles on the treadmill today. Only 74 miles this month, INCLUDING the marathon, but that's the key -- it did include the marathon. I know my training for Little Rock was inadequate, and I'll correct that situation for the next marathon. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 |
| 5K on the treadmill |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 50.71 | 26.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 76.93 |
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