2019 Totals
Totals Swim - 300000 yards Bike - 5222 miles Run - 1200 miles Duration - 598 hours
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2019 Chicago Marathon: How I broke 3 hours running 30 miles per week
My best marathon by time and joy The Chicago Marathon was an amazing experience. The weather was fantastic, the city beautiful and the logistics surprisingly easy. I can’t believe how lucky I was to be there. Going into the race I had no idea I could really take 9 minutes off of my 4+ year old marathon PR and break 3 hours for the first time (2:56:35). My training plan didn’t resemble anything that any logical person would do to try and run a fast marathon. However, my fitness was demonstrably the best I’ve had in over 4 years and I’d lost 35 pounds in 3 months by cleaning up my diet. 2019 got off to a rough start for me. 6 days before running my 6th Boston Marathon I was in a doctor’s office with a needle being guided into my hip joint with the aid of an ultrasound machine. I’d tried ramping up for Boston this year with a plan heavy on speed work. It broke me. I wound up with hip pain and I had to stop running for the last month before toeing the line in Hopkinton. When I got an...