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December 2008

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Location:

Windsor,Ontario

Member Since:

Jan 22, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Detroit Marathon....October 2008...3:48:16

Half Marathon...Tecumseh Run From Cancer....July 2009....1:30:13

Detroit Free Pree/Flagstar Marathon...October 2009...3:30:24. Qualified for Boston!!


Short-Term Running Goals:

Maintain weekly mileage at 80 or more....


Long-Term Running Goals:

train and run a 30 mile ultra-marathon.

Personal:

I am a 52 yr. old single father of four children.  I am retired after injuring my back in 2000. I had back surgery, stopped running, and gained about 80 pounds. Decided to take my health into my own hands....lost 100 pounds, went to Nepal and trekked for two months in the Himalayas...climbed almost 18,000 ft.....felt so proud of myself....began running again. I qualified for Boston in Oct. 2009. I have shifted my focus now on ultra-marathons with the hope to run my first this year.

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3.250.000.000.003.25

So nice to be back running.....had to take it easy as I have not ran in about 2 weeks.

TM.....3.25 miles at an easy pace of 8.0 minutes.

Strength training at the gym.....chest and shoulders. 

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Strength training at the gym.....arms and legs.

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A.M......Strength training at the gym....back.

Afternoon....28 F with winds out of the N @ 11 mph. Cold but a beautiful sunny day to run outside. Ran 6.20 miles in a time of 46 minutes....average pace of 7.25 minutes.

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Strength training at the gym.....chest and shoulders.

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Strength training at the gym.....arms

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A.M.....strength training at the gym.....back

Afternoon.....cloudy skies, 28 F and winds out of the S @ 16 mph.

Ran 6.30 miles in a time of 48 minutes....average pace of 7.37 minutes. 

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Strength training at the gym......legs and abs.

Pool.....50 laps front crawl. 

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Strength training at the gym.....chest and shoulders.

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Strength training at the gym.....arms

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Strength training at the gym.....back

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Strength training at the gym.....chest and shoulders.

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6.250.000.000.006.25

TM....6.0 miles in a time of 47 minutes....average pace of 7.50 minutes with .25 mile cool down of walking afterwards....total of 6.25 miles.

Strength training at the gym.....arms. 

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Leaving tomorrow for Seattle till Jan 10 to spend the holidays with my brother. Hope to get some running in as the area I will be staying has lots of killer hills.

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What a day!.Left Detroit on a flight to Minneapolis and then on to Seattle. Flight left on time, but when I arrived in Minneapolis, found out that my 7 pm flight to Seattle was cancelled, due to a major snow storm in Seattle...so they put me on a standby flight leaving at 9.55 pm. If I don't get on that flight, I will have to fly the next available flight....Dec.25, so I decided that if I don't get on, I will just return home. Luckily out of 100 people on standby, they called my name. Boarded, but sat on the runway for 1 hour, flew to Seattle, sat on the runway for another hour, then got to the gate....then found out that my luggage is lost and I could not get a pickup at the airport from my brother because he was snowed in. Stayed in a hotel that night, then went to the airport in the am to try to retrieve my luggage....with no luck...had to put a claim through, and hopefully it will show up in a few days.....anyways, an interesting start to the christmas holidays....Could really use a good run now to destress, but I have no shoes...they are in my luggage!

Anyways, glad to be here never the less.

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...an uneventful day in Seattle...but relaxing ....helped my brother with a move to a new office location....he is a doctor and works for the Seattle Cancer and Wellness Center....they moved to a new...much larger complex...so we spent the day helping out in the transition.

....still no luggage...which means no running shoes!

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Today I managed to get a little bit of a workout...shovelling snow...then I discovered a fitness club minutes from were I am at, so I will get a workout in tomorrow, but feeling real frustrated that I cannot run because I have no runners. Oh well...have to accept things as they are!

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30 minutes on elliptical cross trainer because I had no runners

strength training at the local gym.....full body 

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Wonderful day with family here in Seattle...my son and neffews will be arriving tomorrow

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busy day ....had to pick everyone up at the airport.....and thank god....after 6 days my luggage finally showed up at the Seattle airport.....just happy to have my runners!

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TM.....5 miles at an easy pace of 8.25 minutes, but felt soooo good to run.

strength training...full body 

Today was my 50th birthday.....had a great time with family....went out to eat some wild caught Pacific Northwest Salmon....what a treat! 

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TM.....5.0 miles at an easy pace of 8.25 minutes. I am not a big fan of the tread mill but all it does is rain in Seattle so I have no choice.....rain is in  the forecast for the next week also.

Strength training.....full body. 

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rest day

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TM......6.25 miles at an easy pace of 8.50 minutes

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TM.....ran 7.08 miles at an easy pace of 8.25 minutes. So much rain here in Seattle that I cannot run outdoors....glad to have access to a tread mill.

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