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Location:

FL,

Member Since:

Mar 20, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

PR's:

  • 1 mile : 5:43 (3/2017)
  • 5K : 18:34 (12/2011)
  • 5 mile : 32:03 (5/2010)
  • 10K : 39:29 (11/2013)
  • 11K: 46:47 (July 2008)
  • Half Marathon : 1:26:47 (11/2012)
  • Marathon : 3:06:34 (02/2010)
  • 50K Trail: 4:34 (01/2012)
  • 50 Mile: 8:34:48 (4/2012)
  • 100K: 11:06 (2/2012)
  • 100 Mile: 24:19:44 (1/2022)

Marathons:

  • Treasure Coast Marathon (FL) - 3:39:51, Mar 2021
  • Towpath Marathon (OH) - 3:35:26, Oct 2019
  • Jacksonville Marathon - 3:31:10, Dec 2018
  • NYC Marathon - 3:49:12, Nov 2017
  • Marine Corps Marathon - 3:27:00, Oct 2016
  • Utah Valley - Jun 2016
  • Marine Corps Marathon - 3:28:12, Oct 2015
  • Pocatello Marathon (ID) - 3:32:25, Sept 2015
  • Chasing The Unicorn (PA) - 3:31:20, Aug 2015
  • Run for The Red (Poconos) - 3:30:40, May 2015
  • Boston - 3:24:42, Apr 2015
  • Clearwater - 3:27:04, Jan 2015
  • Clearwater - 3:16:17, Jan 2014
  • Boston  - 3:27:00, Apr 2011
  • DesNews - 3:10:57, Jul 2010
  • Gasparilla  - 3:06:34, Feb 2010
  • Space Coast - 3:11:29, Nov 2009
  • Estes Park  (7500' and up) - 3:52:19, Jun 2009
  • Boston - 3:17:22, Apr 2009
  • Niagara Falls - 3:19:21, Oct 2008
  • San Diego RnR  - 3:24:18, Jun 2008
  • Jacksonville Marathon -3:21:24, Dec 2007
  • Chicago Marathon - 3:35:08, Oct 2007
  • Disney Marathon - 3:52:34, Jan 2007

 

 

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

 

  • Sub 40:00 10K
  • 2:59 Marathon
  • 1:25 Half Marathon
  • 18:30 5K

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Maintain my health and continuously seek to improve my fitness. Maybe someday get under 3:00 for marathon. More importantly, I'd like to figure out what my maximum ability is and reach that.

I'd also like to find the right balance in life and use running to enhance and improve myself.

 

Personal:

Dad of  three (welcome Charlotte Dani on 8/10/20) awesome kids and stepdad to three almost as awesome as my own kids.

I have a brown dog named Stella, and three cats - Catty, Tortie, and Esperanza.

  (old lines that were a little out of date but couldn't quite bring myself to removing them completely:) Also, have one wonderful brown dog named Sammy and just added a grey tiger cat (Catty) whose life started out rough but now has a better home.

I've recently started another blog so I can easily add lots of pictures and so other non-FRB users can leave comments:

Forward Progress!

 Also, for 2012 I started a blog to write down each day one thing that I am grateful for

Grateful Blog

 

Love living in Florida but love to travel and see the country and rest of the world.

 

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HAPPY JULY 4th EVERYONE!

I was a little bit tired this morning, 5:05 came pretty quickly.  Jenny got home at about 2:20 from her midnight run 10K.  She did well, placing 2nd in her age group but was a little disappointed with her time, but not too bad due to the heat and how dark it was during one of the sections.  I was able to get back to sleep after talking to her for a bit about the race.  It was fun to hear about the race even though I knew that I'd have to get up soon, but I figured I could sneak in a nap later in the day.

 I went to Starkey Park this morning to meet up with the group, which I knew would be smaller than usual today because some people have gone out of town, some people raced the midnight race 10k/5k last night and others were going to run a 5K this morning, but we still had a pretty good sized group.  I got there a little bit late because I had to go back and get my Garmin which I forgot.  I thought about running with no garmin, but didn't even have a watch with me.  I showed up just before 6:00.  Keith, Jorge, Victoria, Jenny, and Laura were all set to get started.  I was almost ready but was waiting for my Garmin to get its signal.  The others had just left when one more car pulled in.   I thought it was Dixie at first as he was a definite maybe for showing up this morning.  But, instead, it was Andrea.

So, Andrea and I set out together to try and catch up to the group, which we did just past 3 miles.  It was a little bit faster than my usual starting out pace.  We all stopped briefly at the 4 mile water stop, then continued on.  Jenny and Keith turned back at 5 miles, and then Victoria and Jorge turned back at 6 miles.  Andrea was up for whatever, so she continued with me to the 7 mile point.  At the turn around we were at a 7:56 pace.  We picked it up a little bit for the return trip.  The sun was coming up at this point, temp was nearly 80 degrees with 95% humidity but at least there were some clouds, and a good portion of the trail has some shade, so it certainly wasn't the worst conditions ever.

We made it back to the parking lot and ended up with an average pace of 7:47.  Andrea said this was her longest run ever.

There were about a dozen or so of us for social hour.  Someone (probably Barb) had brought some colorful 4th of July mylar balloons.  I chugged a bunch of gatorade, had one of Victoria's home made apple oatmeal muffins and some of Jorge's authentic Columbian coffee.

I'm pretty happy with my miles for the week and the fact that I ran 6 days and do not feel beaten up at all.

Glycerin 6 Miles: 14.00
Comments
From Carolyn in Colorado on Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 15:50:49 from 71.229.164.25

Great miles this week and good job not feeling beaten up what with the miles and the Inflict workouts.

Is the Jenny you talked about in the morning run the same Jenny (your wife) who ran the midnight race?

By the way, home made apple oatmeal muffins sound fabulous.

From Mark on Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 13:16:52 from 173.168.88.68

There are two Jennys. Jenny on this run was not my wife. Sometimes the two Jennys run together but not too often. I think Inflict has been helping me not feel beaten up but it is probably too early to tell.

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