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Say No to Drugs 10K

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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  (old lines that were a little out of date but couldn't quite bring myself to removing them completely:) Also, have one wonderful brown dog named Sammy and just added a grey tiger cat (Catty) whose life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: 20.88 Month: 54.08 Year: 342.30
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
Race: Say No to Drugs 10K (6.2 Miles) 00:40:14, Place overall: 22, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
4.840.006.270.000.000.000.0011.11

Good race today, challenging course.  40:14 was good enough for1st place age group.  Ever since we started running the Turkey Trot here, I've always wanted to do this race but was never able to for various reasons.  So, today I finally was able to run it.  I was hoping to break 40 minutes and maybe even PR.  The race was very well put together and organized.  Lots of volunteers, good food at the end and even a bit tent for the pancake breakfast.

Splits (garmin): 6:28, 6:19, 6:20, 6:30, 6:29, 6:34, 1:34 (0.27 @ 5:54)

Called out times : mile 2 - 12:50,mile 3 - 19:13,  mile 5 - 32:10, mile 6 - 38:55, mile 6.1 - 39:39

Warmed up with a little bit over 3 miles of easy running and a few strides.  About 30 minutes before the race, the rain started.  Not very hard, just a sprinkle.  I waited in my truck for a bit to stay warm.  Got out and re-warmed up a little bit before lining up.

The course starts in Coachman park and immediately goes up a short climb, turn right, go straight for a while and then up the Clearwater Memorial Bridge over the intracoastal waterway.  My friend Pat was there, so we were running together for the first couple of miles.  Pace was bouncing around 6:15 and 6:20 until we hit the bridge, then slowed down a little bit as we hit the peak.  Picked up speed on the way down the bridge.  Tried to stay smooth and not get carried away.  Was happy with the second mile but didn't want to get too used to the downhill.  Mile 3 was still feeling pretty good.  Shortly after 3 was the turn around.

I had been trailing several people and slowly caught up and passed them after the turnaround.  However, I had slowed down a little bit, but passing people made me feel like I had sped up.

Mile 4 was in 6:30, I think I lost some focus.  For mile 5 I kept telling myself to stay smooth and relaxed.  I was able to bring my pace closer to where I wanted it, recovering from mid 6:30's to just under 6:30.

The mile 5 marker was at the base of the bridge.  Time to go back up (about a 75 foot climb).  Pace slowed but I was passing some more people.  Hung on until the peak as best I could.  Back down the other side, but then the course turns off onto the helix.  It was pretty thick with 5K walkers, but they did a pretty good job of staying to one side.  However, going down the helix, fast runners had to stay to the left, which meant you had to cover a little more distance since you couldn't hug the railing.

At the bottom of the helix, you go back up again, maybe about a 30 or 40 foot climb.  Around this point a 17 year old male passed me going at a pretty good clip.  Got to the top of the street and went through an intersection where they had police directing traffic.  An older lady with white hair nearly strolled into me while crossing the street.  A police officer yelled at her to watch out, to which she replied "he can go around me".  That may be true, however I would have hated to find out what would have happened if I didn't successfully dodge her.

Finally, approaching the end of the 6th mile.  A volunteer called out the time - 38:55, ok, very slight chance of making sub 40:00, let's see what I can do.  The last 0.1 is back down the same hill we started up.  As I was running down as fast as I could, a lady (maybe mid 20's) jumped out of the crowd, and ran with a friend of hers doing the 5K, but instead of finishing, ran back to the outside and nearly ran into me, missing by inches.

So, it was at least a small improvement over my last 10K time of 40:33, although that one was done at midnight on July 4th, this course had its challenges too.

Had some pancakes, and stayed for the awards.  My running friend Eudair from the Striders, took the female masters award, and another one of the Striders, Marcia took 1st place age group (35-39).  Several other Striders were there also, but I don't remember all the times and awards.

So, the only complaint, at all, was they ran out of coffee before I was able to get any.  Everything else was perfect, and the coffee would have been a non-issue if it wasn't feeling chilly out (mid 50's with rain while wearing running clothes starts feeling cold once you stop running)

Brooks Launch Miles: 11.11
Comments
From Rob Murphy on Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 13:48:02 from 24.10.248.6

Nice race report Mark. Sounds like a greaT race too. Your year is off to a great start - 2011 I mean.

From Mark on Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 15:44:15 from 24.129.132.74

Thanks Rob, hoping for a good injury-free year of running and racing.

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