The Long Run

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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(old lines that were a little out of date but couldn't quite bring myself to removing them completely:) Also, have one wonderful brown dog named Sammy and just added a grey tiger cat (Catty) whose life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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	19.99	Year:	374.84
Brooks T7 Lifetime Miles:						202.78
Brooks ST5 Lifetime Miles:						403.91
GoMeb Speed3 Lifetime Miles:						483.77
Brooks Pure Flow Lifetime Miles:						160.60
Brooks Launch(lobster) Lifetime Miles:						782.98
GoMeb Razor Lifetime Miles:						468.00

Tue, Feb 12, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
8.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.00	0.00	8.00

This morning's run was interesting. Pretty much nothing about it went according to any routine. But overall it was still a good run. I met up with Dixie about 7:00 outside of John Chestnut park. I showed up a few minutes before him and bought a gatorade at the 7-11 there. I had forgotten to drink my usual 2 glasses of water that I always drink when I first wake up.

We decided to start by running into the park. The pace felt nice and easy but it was a lot faster than normal for a first mile at 7:54. We ran through a section of park I had never been into then came to an observation tower (that I had been to before). Dixie wanted to go up it so I said why not. My left shin was kind of tight so I stretched out a bit when we were at the top looking out over Lake Tarpon. I needed to stretch because I had forgotten to do my usual prerun alphabet stretch. We went back down the tower then onto a board walk going through the cypress swamp. I had imagined that it would feel to harsh running on the wood but it was actually kind of springy. There were lots of squirrels and we also saw 4 deer. We ran on various surfaces - grass, packed shells, pavement and boardwalk. We exited the park just after 4 miles, although I'm not sure the exact distance because the garmin kept losing its signal in the tall trees. We had also made a couple more stops so the average pace looked really slow.

The remainder 3.8 miles were back on the road where we got back into a more usual and consistent pace. We both felt like doing 10 but with the adventure through the park time was getting a little bit tight so we opted to wrap things up at 8.

This run certainly kept me out of a rut for the week.

Average pace: 8:53

Comments

From Amy on Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:00:17

I'm curious - what is an alphabet stretch?

From Mark on Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:48:19

Amy, the alphabet stretch is where I trace out the alphabet with my foot slightly extended, then switch and do the other foot. It mostly prevent my shins/ankles from tightening up painfully in the first few miles of running.

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