Sub 3 marathon @ 38 with terminal cancer

Bubbadeeboos · 2022-11-11T15:29:01-05:00

As someone that enjoyed and benefitted from other “cancer” threads (I binge read several of them while in the hospital several days before my craniotomy), I thought I’d create one of my own. I’ll post weekly training summaries until my race in February. Goal Race: Tallahassee Marathon on February 5th Goal time: sub 3 hours No recent races to judge my fitness. I did Pikes Peak marathon in September in a leisurely ~7:40. I’m doing a duathlon relay race with a friend on Nov 19 that involves me running 2 x ~2 mile trail segments. I’m doing the Pine Mountain 19 mile trail run in December and a 30k tune up race in January 14th . Constraints:Grade 4 astrocytomaWearing a medical device called Optune (~5 pound backpack, and 4 large “arrays” that stick to my head like band aids & provide low dose of radiation). I take them off 2-3 times per week to shave and put medicine on my skin. This is when I do workouts.1 more round of chemoImmunotherapy every 6 weeks (mostly just makes me fatigued for a day or two)Two-year-old son~ketogenic dietStrengths Ran a poorly paced 2:58 on this course in 2020 Easy / low stress work-from-home job. Can often “flex” time to run at my convenience Supportive wife Hometown race [i] Only [/i]one more round of chemo (M-F of Thanksgiving week)Recent training October 24th – 30th (24-28 I was taking chemo pills at night) 10/24/2022 21min, 2.2mi optune and strides 10/25/2022 25min, 3mi 10/26/2022 25min, 2.8mi. optune jog Some strides 10/27/2022 23min, 2.6 optune jog 10/28/2022 33min, 3.7mi: some fitness trail and strides 10/29/2022 22min, 2.5mi optune jog 10/30/2022 85min, 9.3mi on Micc. Greenway Oct 31st – Nov. 6th 10/31/2022 17min, 1.8mi optune jog 11/1/2022 30min, 3.2mi optune jog with some strides, a couple uphill drills 11/2/2022 40min, 5 mi: 5 Aussies: ~92, 95, 95, 96, 92 (~400m with some undulations) 11/3/2022 22min, 2.5mi optune jog 11/4/2022 42min, 4.78mi. 5 hill reps up 6th: 66, 69, 65, 65, 66 11/5/2022 31min, 3.4mi optune jog and some fitness trail 11/6/2022 107min, 13.6mi trail run. 4 hill reps after ~6 miles (58, 58, 59, 58, then 16min of tempo)

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3 years ago 02/02/2023 7:07pm EST

re: 55ht

Are there some LetRunners in Tallahassee who can help/pace this guy? 3 more days and absolutely rooting for you!

3 years ago 02/02/2023 7:09pm EST

re: Bubbadeeboos

Incredible story - give them hell this weekend!

3 years ago 02/02/2023 7:14pm EST

re: Bubbadeeboos

Good luck this weekend in your race!

3 years ago 02/02/2023 7:21pm EST

re: bubbadeeboos3

This thread is one of the best I’ve ever read on letsrun.

3 years ago 02/02/2023 7:31pm EST

re: ragingclue

ragingclue wrote:
This thread is one of the best I’ve ever read on letsrun.

I agree 100%.

I was just feeling down about some work related issue and came here to distract myself and saw this thread. Makes my work issue seem totally insignificant in comparison.

I am inspired.

OP, thanks a million for the inspiration. Good luck this weekend.

If you have time, consider writing a book about your journey.

It reminds me of this:

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When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It is a memoir about his life and battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Rand...

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3 years ago 02/02/2023 7:42pm EST

re: Amazing inspiration

Give ‘em hell this weekend, bro. You got this 💪

3 years ago 02/03/2023 10:22am EST

re: Tough as nails

I just finished watching a video by a Dr Tom Seyfried that claims success using a metabolic approach to treat your specific type of cancer. He did not say there is a completed clinical study of metabolic treatment for this disease, but, he does not sound like a snake-oil-salesman either. I suppose that you might be familiar with this approach since you’re on a Keto diet (unusual for a runner), though.

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The Hard Facts about Cancer and Diet with Professor Thomas Seyfried of Boston College

Anthony Chaffee MD

Professor Thomas Seyfried has published over 150 peer reviewed studies in biology and cancer biology and has verified Nobel Prize Winner Otto Warburg's asser...

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PS, I have two kinds of cancer myself - both discovered early in a checkup (lymphoma and prostate) so this is why I’m interested in the subject.

3 years ago 02/06/2023 2:40pm EST

re: Bubbadeeboos

How did the race go? Looks like only 6 guys broke 3:00. Hope you were one of them.

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3 years ago 02/06/2023 2:41pm EST

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