| Location: Mesa,AZ,USA Member Since: May 12, 2008 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: I started running again in 2007 after 14 years of not running.
Mile - 4:59 (high school 1992), 5:57 (9/21/2010 ARR Open Mile)
2 mile - 11:10 (high school 1992)
5k - 21:54 (11/18/2010 Tempe Road Runners 5k)
10k - 48:29 (5/9/2009 Race for Hospice)
Unofficial 10k - 47:11 (1/27/2011 Red Mountain Park)
1/2 marathon - 1:49:00 (4/4/2009 Havasu Half)
Marathon - 4:33:09 (11/21/2009 Mesquite Marathon) Short-Term Running Goals: Run a half marathon in under two hours.
Run a marathon in close to 4 hours. Long-Term Running Goals: Stay healthy long enough to live through the millenium. Personal: I am married and have six kids.
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Everybody knows I'm a good guy, right? I mean, just before my little "incident" occurred this morning I had picked up somebody's garbage can that had blown over in last night's storm. Such a guy. But then I come up to the intersection, and I'm in it before the car that comes along, but do they stop? No. They roll right through and almost hit me. Being the concerned citizen/punk that I am, I need to make sure he/she knows that I'm there, so I take both hands and slap the side of the vehicle. I guess that didn't make the driver too happy. Here's what went down. The dude slows down, rolls down his passenger window and says, "I apologize for not seeing you, but you didn't have to hit my car." Stop. Let's analyze that. Are you really sorry? If your apology is so heart-felt, do you need to add the "but" in there? That kind of rubbed me the wrong way, so I said, "Well watch where you're going." Then he pulls up again and says, "I told you I'm sorry, but you didn't have to hit my car." "You're lucky I didn't scratch it." Oh boy, them's fighting words. That's when he stops, gets out and says something to me that I couldn't quite make out, but I did hear the grand daddy of all cuss words in there. I was still running, but I turned around and yelled, "Get back in your car! I didn't hit it that hard!" So he gets back in and pulls up alongside of me and says, "Again I apologize. Have a good day." I say, "You too, buddy." Not sure if he heard me. "I'm trying to apologize here", he says. "I said 'you too'. What did you think I said??" So then he does the right thing and pulls up and says, "Hey. I want to make this right. Come over here and shake my hand." And I knew he was right so I had to do it. Don't you think we should hug it out though, biscuit? I shook his hand, and he said, "I don't want to get my day started out like this, and I don't want your day to start out like this either. I'm a runner myself." "Well, I appreciate that. I just didn't think you saw me, and I wanted you to know that I was here, I'm queer, and I'm going to kick your rear." Except I didn't say the last two parts there nor are they true. The amazing part was how calm I was during the whole "altercation". Generally if something like this happens to me, my heart starts to pound through my chest, but I was like Mr. Cool. Clearly I've watched too much UFC, and I've lost all touch with reality. Please don't think less of me.
Time - 46:26 (avg. pace 8:18)
Splits - 8:10, 8:10, 8:19, 8:23, 8:28, 4:57 for 0.60 (8:14 avg.)
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