I'm retired from racing. Really.

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Location:

Greenville,SC,

Member Since:

Feb 24, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I also maintain a blogspot running blog. Check it out. 

5k- 16:01, 1/2 marathon- 1:11:37, marathon- 2:34:16, 50k- 3:58, 100 mile- 15:19

Former World Record holder in 100 x 5k relay 

Ultra history:

8-100 mile, 1-100k, 9-50 mile, 2-40 mile, 14-50k-ish

12 wins, 5 CR's, plus four 2nd, five 3rd, 4th, 4th, 5th, 5th, 9th, 16th, 20th, 28th, 38th, and 62nd place, with 1 DNF 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Goals 

Enjoy running, stay fit (and maybe lose a few pounds). Play ultimate frisbee.

4 year coach of Langston Middle School- love it

Long-Term Running Goals:

Unretire at some point

Run a sub-6 hr 50 miler

Win a 100 mile ultramarathon

Personal:

I have five cute kids. And I have some rockin short green racing shorts- I wear them mainly because it embarrasses my wife so much. I like ultimate frisbee, trail running, reading, and cheering for the Denver Broncos!   And I have the absolute best wife in the world.  And I used to run for the now-disbanded national Team Pearl Izumi- Ultra!

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Miles:This week: 11.00 Month: 51.00 Year: 150.00
Fastwitch Lifetime Miles: 82.50
Trail N1 Lifetime Miles: 86.50
Road N1 Lifetime Miles: 31.00
Trail M2 Lime/black Lifetime Miles: 297.00
Road M3 Grey And Yellow Lifetime Miles: 324.00
Road N2 Purple 2 Lifetime Miles: 222.50
Road N2 4 Grey Lifetime Miles: 51.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

AM- I've had sleeping issues recently- no matter how tired I am, I wake up before my alarm.  For example, I fell into bed at midnight last night, exhausted and hoping to sleep until at least 8.  Instead, I was wide awake well before 6 am, so pounded out my run.  One day this week, I woke up at 4:30 am, 90 min before my alarm.  I have decided that my body will not sleep in past 6.

77 deg with 87% humidity this morning before sunrise.  I didn't even bring a shirt.  7 miles in new shoes- they feel great, except they really hurt my toe.  Of course, all of my shoes except 2 inflict undue amounts of pain on my toenail area and swollen, red toe knuckle.  Fortunately, as long as I can grunt through the pain, my toe usually goes numb after 30 min.  Usually, but not always.  The doctor recommended to rest my toe as much as possible as running will prolong healing.  Yup, he's right.  At least it gets a 46 hour rest now, the longest since my surgery.

I want to tell everyone about my next race and demonstrate how sick ultra runners and RD's are.  First, make a 35 mile race course.  Put it over the most challenging terrain in South and North Carolina, through poison ivy, yellow jacket, wild boar, and bear-infested country.  Then, make sure it is so remote that there are no roads within 5 miles of the course, other than the start and finish at trailheads.  Yup, no DNF on this one- you drag your butt out one way or another, or die trying.  Then, don't offer any aid stations or other help of any kind.  And no course markers.  Oh, and do it in the middle of August.  Let me repeat that: 35 miles in August in South Carolina with NO aid stations.  What do you get?  A 17 year old race that sells out every year.  Yes, we all paid good money to partake of this experience.  Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Laurel Valley 35 mile race, next Saturday.

One interesting fact- there are 55 entrants, and only 3 are younger than me. 

Fuel Miles: 7.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Burnside on Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 19:16:48 from 174.252.181.74

The best part of Jon's 100 mile week (which is crazy by the way) is that I can finally keep up with him. This cat is crazy fast and trains like theres no tomorrow, good luck East coast!

From crockett on Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 10:51:16 from 208.53.57.47

Crazy man. My kind of race.

From Rob Murphy on Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 22:52:28 from 98.202.141.17

Your blog is the best reading on this here blog hands down!

And those wild boars are no joke. If we ever get together again for a run I'll have to share with you how I was almost killed by one at Ft. Jackson SC in 1995.

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