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Location:

Broken Arrow,OK,United States

Member Since:

Dec 13, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Route 66 Marathon 2012 (3:12:34)

Route 66 Marathon 2010 (3:35:05)

Glow Run 5k Aug 2012 (19:28)

Aquarium Half Marathon 2013 (1:30:17)

Post Oak Lodge Half Marathon Trail Run 2012 (1:46:22)

Aquarium Half Marathon 2011 (1:39:19)

Oklahoma City Memorial Half-Marathon 2010 (1:42:22)

Williams Route 66  Half-Marathon 2009 (1:42:52). 

15k Tulsa Run 1:00:34 (2013) 1:01:48 (2012), 1:05:12 (2010) 1:09:05 (2009), 1:11:37 (2005), 1:14:26 (2004). 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2013 Goals: Qualify for Boston in Oklahoma City on April 28th.  Goal missed. Actual time: 3:20:37.

Qualify for Boston in Tulsa at the Rt. 66 in November.  

PR in the half marathon in Jenks on April 6th.  (Sub 1:30) PR of 1:30:17...close enough! 

Marathon Finish Williams Route 66 2010 (3:35:05)

Run a sub 20 5k  Full Moon 5k 2011, 19:34

Long-Term Running Goals:

Win my age division.  (Alzheimer's 5k 2010, 21:21)

Run a sub 3 marathon

Run an ultra. 

 

Personal:

I'm married to a very supportive, although slightly less enthusiastic runner than I.  Alisha has run a little with me and participated in several 5k's, but mostly she supports me at races.  She ran her first half in November, 2011.  We have a son who was born in 2010, the year that I ran my first marathon.  I participated in my first Triathlon in April 2011.  I think I may have been bitten by the Ironman bug.  Though an Ironman finish is a long term goal, I want to BQ first. 

I find that the more I run the more I want to run.  I consider my self a running addict.  I like the motto: pain is weakness leaving your body.    

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Brooks Cascadia Red Lifetime Miles: 41.39
Barefoot Lifetime Miles: 1.00
Ravenna 2 White/Black Lifetime Miles: 750.54
New Balance 1080 Orange Lifetime Miles: 705.99
New Balance 1080 Blue Lifetime Miles: 524.47
Mizuno Elixir 7 Lifetime Miles: 513.14
Mizuno Sayonara Blue Lifetime Miles: 71.48
Mizuno Sayonara White Lifetime Miles: 42.19
Total Distance
10.00

I squeezed a speed run in between my son's second well doctor visit and my own doctor visit.  It turns out that my last tetanus shot did not also contain an element for pertussis.  Since my one month old son can not get his pertussis vaccination for several more months, it is recommended that the parents be up to date on their own vaccinations as not to risk passing on viral diseases such as deadly whooping cough to their children. 

I know that there is still somewhat of a controversy over vaccinating children in some circles, but there should not be.  Without going in to the whole debate here, Dr. Wakefield's original study on a vaccine-autism link, which is the catalyst for the current anti-vaccine movement, has been completely debunked, discredited, and furthermore retracted from the England Journal of medicine.  It had way to many flaws for it to be considered real science and is no longer taken as a serious study.  But because his ideas caught on in Europe and America, record numbers of parents are now declining to vaccinate their children.  And because of this trend deadly whooping cough, once thought eradicated, is now back and has killed a hand full of California children.  No one yet understands exactly what causes autism, but the fact that it occurs more frequently in boys than in girls suggests genetic factors are at play rather than external factors.     

Now I shall get back to the business of reporting on my run. After I got back home from Ty's doctor I only had about an hour and 15 minute window to get my 10 mile run in before I had to be back to shower and leave for my doctor.  This small window forced me to run a little harder and faster than I might have otherwise.  I am glad that it worked out this way because I achieved a new PR today for ten miles at 1:11:50.  

Pace: 7:11

Splits:

7:11

7:15

7:02

7:08

7:12

7:02

7:11

7:22

7:23

6:58


1226 Blue/White Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00Weight: 158.00Calories: 1262.00
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