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
32.800.000.000.0032.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.030.000.000.0013.03

Good 13 with Kathy M., Lalita and Kay (dunno last name) at Ben Geren. Pushed Kathy to run faster than her mental block allowed which is good. Also found a partner for RVR -- Kathy, who is looking for something else besides teaching high school English. This will definitely be worth exploring. Run went well, took me up to 38 for the week, which except for that one week in June is as much as I've done in a long time. Temps were high 30s at the start, maybe mid 40s at the finish, felt really good. Shorts and long sleeve was plenty.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.510.000.000.005.51

Progression run at MAFC after work. Decided to stretch a fish into a 50-minute run. Finished the 73rd lap in 49:58, figured that was close enough. Legs felt really good. Left trapezius still doesn't for some reason. I did some shoulder shrugs, curls and triceps work after the run to try to work some of that out. We'll see if it helps.

 I need another 375 miles in the next 12 weeks to get to my secondary mileage goal of 1400. That's 31ish a week. Doable. Hope I don't need to load up with 70 mile weeks in December to get there. Doing 38 a week would get me to 1500. Maybe. We'll see. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.220.000.000.006.22

Up at the crack o' chickens for 10K along Phoenix. Knew how far I was running, so didn't look at the watch and just cruised. Cruising turned out to be a 9:31 average and a one-minute negative split. Felt pretty good, especially only 8 hours after my last run ended. Guess the legs are finally coming around. Now if the insomnia would come around...

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.040.000.000.008.04

Took three days off because I screwed up my left arm and shoulder lifting weights the other night, and it's not letting me sleep. But I actually slept well last night, with a little chemical encouragement, and got up at 5 to run. Did 8, slowly going out, accelerating coming back. Arm didn't hurt much then, but it does now (typing seems to irritate it). So I'll quit typing...

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
32.800.000.000.0032.80
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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