Getting back to Boston

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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
30.230.002.000.0032.23
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.620.000.000.006.62

Progression run after work. Original plan was to get in a couple of miles to get to 100 for the month, pure OCD round number stuff. But I got out, felt pretty good, weather was reasonably cool, and I altered the course and kept going. Ended up with 6.62. Wanted to make sure I finished 10K in less than an hour, and topped that by 34 seconds, then did the last 0.4 in 3.5 minutes. Not burning fast, but faster than I've been running. Kinda set me up for speed work tomorrow.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.000.002.000.005.00

First "speed work" in almost a year, even if it consisted of 800s at what used to be MP. Wasn't sure I could manage even that, with 10 extra pounds and nothing resembling speed work since November, but it went well. Ran with Brenda Hook and another Brenda, who was faster than (the current) me, if maybe not the me of 18 months ago.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.040.000.000.006.04

Kinda pushed it at MAFC today, in part to keep the chica from lapping me. But it actually felt pretty comfortable. I have a new form thought, to drive my knees through instead of dead-leg swinging, Rex style, and that helped to pick up the pace right there. Then when chica came up past me, I said to myself "heck no" and picked it up some more to keep up and later pass. Then just kept it going. Wound up with sub-9 pace for 80 laps. Also now within range of 1000 for the year.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.510.000.000.009.51

Out in 50ish weather (yay!) in later afternoon for 9ish to take me over 1000 for the year. It rained all morning and was still very humid, so I worked up quite a sweat, but not what I would have 20 degrees ago. Lots of hills on the route, which the legs handled OK. I guess I'm getting back in shape, even if the love handles don't show it yet. It's my fifth straight year of 1000 plus. So I got that going for me.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.060.000.000.005.06

Indoors at MAFC after the Hog game. Could have run outdoors, but yesterday gave me the sniffles and I don't need to be getting sick now, and it's even cooler today than yesterday. So I chose 68 degrees over 55. I definitely needed to get the kinks worked out of my legs too, so the run was needed. Helped that we finally played well on both sides of the ball.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
30.230.002.000.0032.23
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