| 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 | | 125.50 | 11.25 | 0.00 | 6.86 | 143.61 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 7.22 |
| Intervals at the track
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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 |
| Out slow with the chickens. Learned later that while I was out running, Bubba died. It is not fair for a wonderful little boy to die at age 5 while human garbage continues to live and run for President (political commentary ended).
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.06 |
| Easy 6 for Bubba, since he can't run for himself any more. You are missed my friend. Requiescat in pace.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.14 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.14 |
| Nice and slow before tomorrow's race.
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ARK 5k Classic (3.107 Miles) 00:25:22, Place overall: 110, Place in age division: 6 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.11 | 4.71 |
| Fought the humidity and lost at Burns Park this morning. Couldn't get air, really. Walked twice. Still managed 6th in my real age group and 3rd in my GP age group, so it'll be nice points. But I'm pretty disappointed. First mile was like 7:15 but that's about when the air quit flowing.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Progression run on the mill. Went OK, not too much residual from yesterday's slow 5K.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
| MP run on the mill. Lack of sleep during last night's shift meant not enough time to do the 15 I'd planned, so I did as much as I could, finishing at 7:20. Then showered and came upstairs. MP miles felt pretty good; able to push to 7.5 then 8 mph at the end. Lotta work to do in the next 47 days but this was a good one.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.22 |
| 10K on the mill during a thunderstorm, mostly on the clock. I'd planned to do up to 7 until beeping took care of that plan. I was a little stiff after yesterday's MP run but eventually loosened up a bit. Still sleep deprived yet; I didn't get to sleep until after 11 this morning and the storm woke me up at 4.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Progression run on the mill. Felt pretty good at MP for the last two miles but was breathing harder than I would have liked. Got it done without too much issue though.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Took yesterday off with bad case of hitting the wall. Back at it today on the mill at 6.2. Legs wanted another day off, frankly, but I trudged through. Finally started getting loose after 4+. Beeper went off after 5.5 to dissaude me from going any further.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.25 |
| Mill run at the hotel in Dallas before my Global Entry interview.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.75 | 6.75 |
| Late night intervals at the track; it was still 80 degrees when I started at 10:15 and not much cooler when I finished. 5 x 600 at somewhere around 7:15 pace. May have extended the recovery periods beyond the suggested :90 to get some water, but not much, and I was still sucking wind after each one and well into the warmdown miles. Actually ran faster than I was planning; I was thinking 7:30ish. But I couldn't see the watch except under the lamps at each end and 7:15 just felt like a fast comfortable.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.75 | 1.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| Progression run on the mill at the hospital. Wasn't sure how far I'd go after last night's intervals; maybe only 5. But I loosened pretty quickly and felt OK and started to push the pace, and cranked it to MP for the last 16 minutes before a 0.5 cooldown. It was nice to go home after one of those instead of putting my scrubs and beeper back on.
Looks like the 20K Saturday has been scrubbed. Miss V wanted to go out with me Friday night. Given that choice -- a minimally important race or an evening with a woman I like very much -- didn't take long to decide.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.40 |
| Back in the saddle after four days off for Tyler's ER visit, work, sleep deprivation and general worry. Don't know how I would have gotten through this without Veronica's support. The lady is a keeper, y'all. Now I just have to keep her. It was nice and cool but the legs were a bit rubbery after the hiatus.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.10 |
| Easy fish after work.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 4 a.m. treadmill run. Mostly uninterrupted by beeping, but when it beeped, it came fast and furious. Got it done though, 10:00 average even with interruptions and cooldown.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 19.89 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 19.89 |
| Slog. Bonk. Death march. Cramps. Weird twinge in right leg. All of the above apply. Weather wasn't an issue for once but the legs were not ready to go 20, especially on a route with a whole bunch of hills. I thought they might toughen me up for Frankfurt's rollers. Maybe so, but it was tough today. Took four hours plus to get it done with way too much walking, but once the cramps set in it was tough to do anything more.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.33 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.33 |
| Back on the mill 15ish hours after the 20 miler for a recovery run. And I took it very easy. Almost didn't mind the beeping because it meant a walk break. But eventually I felt good enough to stretch a 5-miler to 6.33. Why that precise number? Because it put me at 26.22 miles in a 22-hour period. A full marathon. The way I felt yesterday morning, Frankfurt might have taken 22 hours (not quite, but it would have been 5+). The niggle in the side of my right calf, which my usual paranoia tried to turn into a fibular stress fracture, was gone. I figure it had something to do with the road camber I was negotiating. Done now.
Tomorrow night, and into Wednesday morning <very big grin>, I'll be in Tulsa. So not sure when I'll get a run. Maybe when I get back, maybe I wait until later. I'll try to get up Thursday and run with the chickens. Don't think I'll run with the crazies, not with Chile Pepper on Saturday.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 125.50 | 11.25 | 0.00 | 6.86 | 143.61 |
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