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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  (old lines that were a little out of date but couldn't quite bring myself to removing them completely:) Also, have one wonderful brown dog named Sammy and just added a grey tiger cat (Catty) whose life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: Miles For Moffitt (5 Miles) 00:32:03, Place overall: 20, Place in age division: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
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My first ever 5 mile race.  Went pretty well.  The weather couldn't have been much better for May.  The whole family went with me to the race.  Race was held at the USF campus which is also near where the Moffitt Cancer Center is located.  I warmed up for almost 2 miles with a few strides thrown in.  I had been trying to get myself feeling motivated, although was having a slightly hard time doing so.

I lined up near the front.  The wheelchair race started, then five minutes later the rest of the race started.  There is a guy, Matt,  that started running with our running group recently who was also at the race today.  He was going to go out at a 6:00 pace.  I knew that a 6:00 pace was going to be a stretch for me but I wanted to see what would happen.   Matt was way up in front of me.

First mile felt pretty good actually, and came close to 6:00 (6:01) according to my garmin, although it was slightly short of where the sign was, but not too far.  They had water at each mile marker which was nice.

Second mile I was still feeling pretty good and was in the 6:0x's for most of it.  Slipped off pace just a little bit but was still happy with a 6:11.  However, now I was way off from the mile marker and hit the lap button when I actually did pass the sign ( 0:21 ). 

 Third mile was slightly hilly, and I usually have a hard time with the middle miles it seems (6:32).  Sometime during this mile I caught up to Matt but he wasn't too far behind me.

Fourth mile I was able to bounce back a bit to a 6:20 pace.  I was feeling better about the race at this point.

For the fifth mile my legs were starting to burn a bit but I really wasn't suffering.  But somehow I let my pace slip.  I'm a little disappointed that I didn't push a little harder for the final mile.  At the end of the 4th mile I had been trailing a girl who I finally passed.  Then, there was no one in front of me (except for some guy who was very far in front of me).  Jenny and the boys were cheering for me about a 1/4 mile from the end and I tried to pick it up as best I could.   When I was about 20 feet from the finish line some guy cruised right past me, I sure wasn't expecting that, he must have really hammered it because I don't remember seeing him at and point during the race.

So, while I might have been disappointed a little bit with the last mile, I did accomplish my goal of going out at 6:00 pace and seeing what happened, and I didn't totally fall apart.

Ended up with 2nd place for my age group.  They had these polished rocks with the race logo and date as well as age group award markings for the prizes.

Matt was about 40 seconds behind me and ended up with 1st place male in the cancer survivor category.

After the awards we went to Busch Gardens since it was just five minutes away and we have season passes.  We found some things there to cool us off.

As the ride Sheikra comes down, it skims through some water and throws off a good spray, here it is just beginning to spray:


 

The people on the ride don't get wet, but if you stand near it you do get wet, it's a pretty popular spot with kids who want to get drenched:

 

 

**Official results posted: I was 2 seconds faster and moved from 26 to 20th place!

 


Brooks Launch Miles: 7.00
Comments
From Carolyn in Colorado on Sun, May 16, 2010 at 23:59:35 from 24.8.167.243

Congratulations on a great race and a 2nd pace AG award! It sounds like you had a fun day with the family.

From Mark on Tue, May 18, 2010 at 22:55:53 from 173.168.88.68

Thanks Carolyn! It was quite a fun day.

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