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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  (old lines that were a little out of date but couldn't quite bring myself to removing them completely:) Also, have one wonderful brown dog named Sammy and just added a grey tiger cat (Catty) whose life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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Ran a 5k distance with the boys this morning.  Andy is going to do a Mother's Day 5K next week with Jenny.  Noah wanted to go along on this morning's run.  We stuck with Noah's pace which overall was 12:35 - not too bad for a 5 year old.  Andy could have gone a lot faster but that's ok since today wasn't the race.

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Decided to take one day off from running even though yesterday was a very light day.  Still though, it was 7 days in a row of running.    

Did 20 minutes on the Arc trainer and then about 45 minutes of upper body weights. 

Another physical therapy appointment this morning, lower abdominal strain is almost all gone now. 

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5.001.200.000.000.000.000.006.20

Early run, met up at 5:30.  Brian, Raj, Randy, Dixie and myself were there.  We almost left without Dixie as he showed up at 5:33.  Not sure where Eudair was today.   It was colder this morning than it had been in about a  month, about 54°.  I felt very sluggish but kept up ok with everyone else, just didn't feel very energetic.  A little bit faster on the last 1.2 miles.  Average pace for the run was 8:10 with one short water break.

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1.005.200.000.000.000.000.006.20

Ran by myself this morning.   Warmed up a little bit first on the elliptical trainer, then headed outside.  Started out slow but not too slow with an 8:10 for the first mile then picked things up to about 7:30 pace and held it there.  A few of the miles were a little bit faster, but nother faster than 7:15.  Overall pace was 7:33.   I think I could have held this pace for at least 2 more miles before it became a real struggle.  Felt a lot less sluggish today compared to yesterday, might have been the extra 45 minutes of sleep.   I'll go a bit slower tomorrow.

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4.002.001.100.000.000.000.007.10

Early run this morning at the Y at 5:30.  Eudair, Randy, myself and a new guy named Randall who is going to do the Marine Corps marathon in October.   Started out pretty easy, with a gradual picking up towards the end.  I tacked on one more mile at the end as I was feeling good.   Went faster but not all out, 6:45 pace.  Overall pace for today's run was 8:03

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Met up with Dixie and Eudair at the Y this morning at 5:30.  Did an easy warmup of 3.1 miles around the Kinsmere loop.  Headed over to the track at the high school where Dixie and I did 4 800's at 3:20  (each one was either 3:18 or 3:19, we didn't hit 3:20 exactly).  We jogged one lap between each 800.   Total mileage turned out to be 6.2 with an average pace overall of 7:46 (not counting the walk from the Y to the high school).

It was supposed to be smokey this morning (from the north Florida fires) but turned out to be ok when we were running.  Unfortunately the smoke still came.  Andy is supposed to be finishing his "marathon" today at school.  His 2nd grade class has been walking one mile each day (a few days have been 2 miles when they needed to catch up).   The kids have really loved doing this.  If it is too smokey today, hopefully they can finish up on Monday.

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6.004.000.000.000.000.000.0010.00

Met up at Starkey park this morning at 6:30 - it was Dixie, Keith, Eudair and myself.   Wanted to get started before it got smokey out which could have been as early as 8:00 but has so far not shown up.  First 4 miles out were at an easy pace, although it felt hard to get started.  Eventually things fell into place.  After 4 miles, slowly picked things up.  Had to tell the others to slow down at one point because everyone was feeling good but we all said we didn't want to go too fast today.    Overall pace was 7:57.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
23.3012.403.100.000.000.000.0038.80
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