Thanks, Brojos. Thanks, LRC members. LetsRun helped me make my dreams a reality.

GBohannon wrote:

HahaRiiiiiiight wrote:

You guys are missing the KEY point of this thread (and the other one about getting the CR) - this guy just trained for a 2:25 marathon, running 100-110 mpw DURING THE FIRST 5 MONTHS OF HIS SON'S LIFE. Either this guy's wife is a SAINT or he has the easiest baby ever known to mankind - in which case his wife is still a SAINT. I'm still not sure I believe it actually......

Haha - it was a combination of things. First and foremost, my wife is a SAINT. No doubt about it. Other factors include the fact that I am a teacher/coach so even though I was taking 9 credit hours this summer, I still had lots of time to help with the baby. That lasted from his birth until school resumed the last week of August.

Additionally, the baby was a breeze until he hit some sleep regression at 4 months. We’re talking 6+ hrs straight of sleeping every night and 2-3 hr naps regularly. It was pretty cool. Once school started, I set my alarm for 4:25 so I could bottle feed the little guy, put him back to bed, and then squeeze my 11 mile loop in before work. Then, I would get 4-5 junk miles during my middle school XC team’s 2 hrs practice. Granted, this was while I was monitoring/motivating the kids and we are talking 9-10 minute pace with breaks for stretching, chatting, recording times, etc but I still count the mileage! Lastly, my wife is a SAINT.

To answer another post - I ran 2:00/4:39/10:17 in HS and had a 17:09 season average for 5k as a senior. Didn’t run at all from 2006 until 2010 when I took it back up.

Shorter distance PRs are currently 15:22 and 1:11:38. Although, I would have to think that I could currently smash the half PR and could maybe take the 5k down a little.

GBohannon wrote:

When I first starting frequenting Letsrun, I was a hobbyjogger who knew very little about training. I had recently run my first marathon and had finished in 3:21:57. This was 11:57 shy of my BQ goal (back when the BQ was 3:10:00).

I stumbled across the website when searching for marathon plans to help me reach the elusive BQ. I found Wejo’s “Why I sucked in college” article and it changed my life. I achieved my BQ in with a 3:00:27 in 2012 thanks to increasing my mileage to about 50 per week.

I have been slowly upping the ante ever since. I am now around 100-110 mpw. I often come to the boards for advice and always find what I am looking for. Today, I won my first ever marathon with a 2:25:17. While I understand that this is “small potatoes”, I am on top of the world. Next to my marriage and my son’s birth, it’s the happiest I’ve ever felt.

I am going to keep training by the LRC code (high mileage and very slow easy days... often 8:00 pace) and am going to keep turning my dreams into reality. It may not happen for 2020, but I will get the OTQ someday.

Thanks, Wejo. Thanks, Rojo. Thanks, LRC.