Boston before I die

January 2007

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Location:

TN,USA

Member Since:

Apr 11, 2007

Gender:

Unknown

Goal Type:

Unknown

Running Accomplishments:

I've run the Country Music Marathon (Nashville) 3 years in a row/ PB was the last one at 4:20

Short-Term Running Goals:

To run a marathon in under 4:00 within the next 2 years at Chicago or NY

Long-Term Running Goals:

Want to qualify for and run in the Boston marathon

Personal:

Married- 2 children/ we sing in a group called "evidence" - www.evidenceministries.com

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to Ukraine's Armed Forces

Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Totals

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
28.00	0.00	28.00

Mon, Apr 02, 2007

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
4.00	0.00	4.00

Wed, Apr 04, 2007

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
6.00	0.00	6.00

Thu, Apr 05, 2007

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
4.00	0.00	4.00

Sat, Apr 07, 2007

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
10.00	0.00	10.00

Mon, Apr 09, 2007

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
4.00	0.00	4.00

Comments

From Paul Petersen on Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 14:27:23

Welcome to the blog! Although certainly not on the same scale as your group, my wife and I help lead worship at our little Baptist church out here in Utah.

From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 16:29:55

Tim - welcome to the blog. To help you better with your training, it would be very useful to have some more information about your running. What has been your running experience? Did you run in college or high school? If yes, how fast? What kind of training have you been doing? How often do you get injured, and what usually brings it on? What are your times in shorter distances?

From Sasha Pachev on Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 14:15:31

Tim - to follow up on your post with the running history. It appears that you could easily run at least a 3:45 marathon if you got some miles in. Probably 6-8 months of good training will get you there. The idea is to get in as many miles in as possible at a very comfortable pace. I would recommend to have a regimen of running 6 days a week, each day no less than 4 miles to start with. If you feel good or have the time, go more, otherwise still make sure you get your 4 miles in, does not matter how slow. For the long run, go to 8 miles, and if you are feeling strong, go 10. Once you get use to this routine, no pain, no threat of injury, then you should start increasing the daily mileage gradually but keep everything in the same proportion - e.g the long run should not be much more than the double of your shortest daily mileage. As your mileage increases, if anything, the weight of your daily mileage is what should be increasing vs the long run. E.g. for me a long run is 18 miles, but my daily minimum mileage when training hard is 13.

From Tortoise on Tue, May 20, 2008 at 00:44:36

Hi,

Are you still out there and running. Noticed that it has been a long time since you were on the blog. Hope everything is well for you.

Wed, Apr 11, 2007

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
0.00	0.00	0.00

I'm new to this blog. I havent't run today yet but I just wanted to tell my story about how I started running and where I am today.

I did not run long distance in high school. I was not serious about it at all. My interest was peaked in college when a friend of mine was talking about running and I acted like it was no big deal. I remember saying, "Running is easy- you just run until you want to stop." He challanged me to run 10 miles with him and I asked if that was as far as he wanted to go. He knew I wouldn't be able to do it but wanted to teach me a lesson. At 5 miles I was hurting pretty bad. I got to about 8 miles and my legs shut down. I had never experienced anything like it. We both worked for UPS at the time and I was a load trainer. I had to call in sick for the next two nights because I could hardly move. Every muscle in my body was sore. That's when I gained a healthy respect for long distance running and I made it my goal to one day finish 8 miles and be able to walk away from it feeling fine- not sore. I did that and decided that that wasn't enough. About 3 and a half years ago I decided to run a marathon- I had never trined or run in a race before. I looked online and got a training scheldule and did it. I trained by myself and ran it in 4:36. I've run the country music marathon the next two years basically going about it the same way with around the same results. Somewhere in the journey I thought that I would love to make it my goal to run a marathon in a qualifying time for Boston but at this pace I can't see it happening before I'm 75. I thought I would try to network a bit and get some training tips that could help me start to improve my time and get rid of the 22 mile cramps under my knees that compleetley destroy my time in every marathon I've run in.

I average about 9 min miles when I'm running 15 or more miles. Shorter distances I can maintain around 8:00 min mile (give or take). I know I need to get to 7:30 min miles for the durration to qualify- just not sure how to get there.

Well- thanks for reading and I'll look forward to any help.

Comments

From Paul Petersen on Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 15:04:55

What is your 5K PR? 10k PR? What sort of mileage did you do preceding your marathons?

That information is useful for estimating how much endurance you have already developed vs. your potential.

IMO, fitness and race performance is a function of mileage and number of weeks of training (ie total training load). It's simple, but it works. The more you run, the faster you will become. Speedwork and tempo runs will help beyond that, but increasing volume alone will give you huge performance gains. Increasing itensity would be the next step once you adjust to high volumes.

From Jon on Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 15:36:07

Tim

Welcome to the blog. I'm sure you will get lots of helpful ideas that will make you faster. You'll love it.

From Sasha Pachev on Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 17:58:03

How is your training going?

From MichelleL on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 23:09:04

Where are you Tim? I think Paul's comments above are on target. Winter is a great time to gradually increase your base. I don't think it will take until you are 75 to get to Boston. I think the blog has helped me tremendously, hope you start to post again. Get those running shoes on.

Totals

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
28.00	0.00	28.00

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