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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  (old lines that were a little out of date but couldn't quite bring myself to removing them completely:) Also, have one wonderful brown dog named Sammy and just added a grey tiger cat (Catty) whose life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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Race: Tampa Bay Times Turkey Trot (3.107 Miles) 00:21:08, Place overall: 128, Place in age division: 104
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
3.090.003.080.000.000.000.006.17

Tampa Bay Times Turkey Trot race report.

Time: 21:07.7

Splits: 6:43, 6:51, 7.07, 0.08@5:45

After having no race last year, did not want to miss this year.  No 10K this year and the pre-race party was moved as well as the finish line and there was a slight change to the course.  Plan was to go out hard running through the mayhem of the first mile with thousands of people many of whom are not lined up to their ability but it's part of the fun.  Got a pretty decent warmup with just under a mile including some strides (was having some trouble getting the legs to turn over as fast as I wanted but better to get that out of the way before the race than during the race).

Race starts and things go pretty much as expected, with the crowd a little less crazy after about a 1/4 mile.  I'm hanging on ok and locked into a 6:40ish pace.  Bill Cottrell goes cruising by me and wishes me a happy Thanksgiving.  We turn the corner at the end of the first straightaway and soon hit the mile sign. 6:41. One goal down, get back under 7:00 for the first mile.  Can I do one more?  Continue on until taking the left hand turn that will lead to the hill.  I'm struggling but moving along and seemingly the same pace, slipped maybe a little to about 6:46, feeling pretty locked in.  See the two mile sign and a little after that the watch beeps, 6:51.  Hmmm, that's odd pace had seemed pretty steady.

The third mile is where the change is.  Instead of a straight shot up the same road, we take a left down a side street, a right, another right and finally a left to get back to the street where we left the old course.  Then, turning left onto Druid you could see the finish line.  Traditionally, you'd turn just past this year's finish line and head onto the high school track where the finish line was which is kind of nice, but this year's straight shot down the road made it slightly easier.  Also, that little detour down the side streets broke up Cemetery Hill into two parts.

Pace seemed to be holding at about 6:54 for the last mile.  Somewhere back maybe around mile 2.5 I'd passed up Bill.  Not wanting to get passed again I sped up as best I could, past the 3 mile sign and did the best kick I could.  As I went by the 3 mile sign, watch beeped and showed 7:07 for the split, strange again.

Managed to not get passed by anyone and after going through the chute saw the person with the coffee mug cards still had some left, I'd made it under runner 125.

I soon realized what had been going on with the splits.  At some point, my watch display switched to average pace, which explained the mismatch between what I thought I was running and the actual splits.  The plus side of this mishap I think is it kept me from getting discouraged in the third mile where I'd probably slowed down running up the hill and zig zagging through the neighborhood.

Found Tom and saw he had a coffee mug card (not much of question of whether he'd get one).  6th place for him this year with a time of 16:20.

Rest of the day was nice.  Due to people's schedules, our main meal would be breakfast - Jessica was taking Aubrey to cheer competition in Orlando.  Later in the evening, had dinner with Sophia and her friend and then went up to see my parents and brought them dessert.  Andy brought Stella to Jenny's house for dinner.  She got to play with NiKYO as well as having a big bowl of dinner leftovers. 

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