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  (old lines that were a little out of date but couldn't quite bring myself to removing them completely:) Also, have one wonderful brown dog named Sammy and just added a grey tiger cat (Catty) whose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

Over one week now without any running.

 Basically, what happened is when I got to work, a week ago Friday, my left hip was hurting me.  It hadn't hurt during the run but was hurting later.  At first I thought, no problem, I'll just take off a couple of days and then be better.

Saturday morning - still hurting, getting ready for trip, problems just walking around, spent rest of the day in the car.

Sunday - more driving, stayed off my feet, getting a little bit better.

Monday - still hurting

Tuesday - went to Austin, getting better to walk on.

Wednesday - came home from Austin, stopped at Innerspace caverns, finally started feeling normal.

Thursday - back in Dallas, feeling a lot better unless I tried to walk quickly.

Friday - feeling better, went to the Ft Worth zoo, a little bit sore from walking towards the end of the zoo visit.

Saturday - back in the car to head home.

Sunday - back home at 2:00 pm, took the dogs for a walk with the family, feeling ok but still couldn't walk fast.  Hot tub later, felt better.

Monday (today) - felt a lot better this morning, I don't think I'm 100% yet though.

This whole thing kind of snuck up on me, it didn't feel any worse when I ran on it, the last time I ran.  This usually means that it is ok to run.  So often, I have run, where it didn't feel so great starting out but once you get going, or after the run, whatever it is has cleared up.

Well, hopefully I can get over this.  I'll tread lightly and come back slowly for now.  I should be able to walk fast without any problems before trying to run.  I might also have to spend more time in the pool.
 

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I went to the Y today.  It felt good to do at least something.  I warmed up on some of the cardio machines to see which ones might work the best for me now.  I treaded very lightly and decided I would stop even if I imagined any pain.  I did a few minutes on the bike, a little bit on the rower and then some on the arc trainer. 

Next I did some upper body weights.  This was my main workout and I think it went pretty well.  I had read recently that you can maintain or even improve your lactic threshold with weight lifting.  It would be nice if that turns out to be true. 

So, the real test now is to see how I feel the rest of the day, tonight and tomorrow morning when I wake up.  If I feel the same or better, then maybe I will do just a little bit more tomorrow. 

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Another day of very light cardio today.  I did 10 minutes on the bike at a slightly higher resistance than yesterday, and 10 minutes on the arc trainer followed finally by 2 minutes on the rower.

I only did 2 minutes on the rower because I was either starting to feel something or at last thought I was feeling something so I played it safe.

 Overall, so far so good.  This morning I felt pretty good and have felt good so far during the day.
 

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Another cross training day.  I stepped things up one small notch from last time.  10 minutes on the bike at slightly higher resistance once again, then 16 minutes on the arc trainer (I had planned on doing only 15, kept going, but then decided to quit while I was ahead).

Then I did some upper body weights, as well as some push ups and two sets of pull-ups.  So, this morning I felt like I did more than just show up at the gym.

No pain still a couple hours later.

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