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MacArthur Park 5K

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Location:

Little Rock,AR,United States

Member Since:

May 21, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Longest Ultra: White Rock Classic: 6:34:00, 33.4 miles, Ozark Mtns., AR

Marathon: 3:25:06, Boston Marathon, April 20, 2015

Half-Marathon: 1:33:27 (Gun Time), Little Rock Half-Marathon, March 1, 2015.

10K: 43:10, Lenexa Freedom Run, Lenexa, KS, July 4, 2015

5K: 20:23, Firecracker Fast 5K, Little Rock, AR, July 4, 2013 (Mostly downhill course)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run another marathon in 3:25 or better.

2 to 3 Marathons per year - Goal: 3:30 or better

1 to 2 Half-marathons per year: 1:32 or better

1 to 2 Ultra Runs per year: At least one 50K

Have fun running and stay injury-free

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run Boston when I'm 60 years old

Personal:

Married to Kimberly - 23 years

Daughter Brianna - 21 years old

Three dogs: Hershey, Lady, Emmie

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)

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Nike Lunaracer 3 Lifetime Miles:						187.97
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NB 890v3 Lifetime Miles:						221.10
Brooks Pure Connect Blue Lifetime Miles:						8.10
Adidas Tempo 6 Lifetime Miles:						110.65

Fri, May 01, 2015

Race: MacArthur Park 5K (3.11 Miles) 00:20:55, Place overall: 10, Place in age division: 1

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.40	3.00	1.50	1.60	6.50

Ran the MacArhur Park 5k and Corporate Cup at 7:00 p.m. on a nice 74 degree evening with no wind. Won my age group for the third consecutive year of this race with a 6:45/mile pace. General Douglas MacArthur grew up in downtown Little Rock and his family's house is now a museum and park in front of the house has his name. The Corporate Cup is a competition of companies with Arkansas operations, and consists of four runners who each run the 5k for a cumulative total time added from the team's runners. On our Entergy Arkansas Team, Wesley Hun won the event with a 17:02 time (5:30/mile) and Kerry Gaston won the womens 35-39 division, and Mike Maulden came in second in the men's 55-59 division behind me.

It's taking some time for me to warm-up since I'm not fully recovered from training for and running the Boston Marathon. So I ran 2.3 miles on the TM as a partial warm-up and then ran another 1.1 miles at MacArthur Park to warm-up.

Night Sleep Time: 8.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 8.00

Comments

From Wesley Hunt on Sun, May 03, 2015 at 17:28:26 from 162.192.68.81

Strong race, Dave, and good recruitment efforts...Kerry ran great!

From DaveM on Tue, May 05, 2015 at 19:30:42 from 70.196.133.135

Thanks. My legs didn't have much pop. Four more days would have made a huge difference. Tomorrow. I'm running repeats with Derek Mills.

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