| 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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| | Today as I turned the corner to head over to the floodway/RWCD canal, I saw a bunch of people over by the canal and a bunch of cars parked in the street. I wondered what was going on. I thought maybe it was an organized clean up day or something. As I got closer I saw some orange coolers and realized it must be a drink station for a race course. I went to do my normal loop, up the east side of the floodway to Brown Road, cross the floodway, run on the east side of the RWCD canal, and now I could see that it was a color run. They were throwing colored dust on the runners. I wondered if I'd be able to run by there. I made up my mind that I was going to run through it, and if I happened to get dusted, that's their fault for not checking that I didn't have a bib on. So I got to Brown Road and crossed over right about the same time 4 young girls, maybe 12 to 14 reached the turn around point. I guess they were just running up and back as many times as they could in a certain amount of time. So that would be just over a mile each time. Anyway, I asked them what was going on. They said it's a color run, but they're almost out of color so by the time we get back, we probably won't get any more thrown on us. At this point I had a dose of reality of how slow I run lately as one of the girls who was short and stubby was running faster than me. Oh well. I'm ok with who I am. We got about half way there and a man said they had 6 minutes left. They were starting to slow down and I had caught back up to them by this point. I told them they could walk and still make it in 6 minutes if they wanted. They thought that was sage advice and decided to heed it. Well, they were out of color by the time I got to the end. I was hoping at least they would cheer for me, but all I got was a cute little three year old girl offering my a lollipop.
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