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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  (old lines that were a little out of date but couldn't quite bring myself to removing them completely:) Also, have one wonderful brown dog named Sammy and just added a grey tiger cat (Catty) whose life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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 1390.02
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Thu, May 14, 2009
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
6.783.700.000.000.000.000.0010.48

I was going to just do 8 or 9 miles this morning with 4 or 5 at about a 7 minute pace, but the morning slowly evolved differently.  I had another night out with customers but was more sensible about what I ate and drank.  Since this was also the third morning in a row of 5:00 wake up I decided to slow things down a little bit.  Also, I was going to be running with Dixie this morning and he is just now starting back up after some time off.

Anyway, I warmed up with about 0.8 from my house to the parking lot where I met Dixie right about as planned at 5:40. Then we started out and did two easy miles.  I offered to him why don't we do 7:00 minute miles with a short rest between, maybe about 1 minute.  The recovery times between the miles were a bit longer than the planned one minute, and by the 4th mile Dixie was dragging a bit but did his best to hang on.  The pace felt really good to me and I think it ended up working out ok with a slower overall average but more miles than planned.   On the second fast "mile" there was a garmin mishap which led Dixie to stop at 0.7 instead of 1.0, which is why it is 3.7 marathon pace miles rather than 4.

Average pace: 8:25

Temperature was pretty good but humidity was a bit high.  It was nice running at this time as I was able to see the sky go from dark to barely light to sunrise.

Glycerin 6 Miles: 10.48
Comments
From JimF on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:12:28 from 32.178.218.193

Nice run! That 5am alarm has got to be tough. I admire your dedication.

From jorge on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:14:47 from 208.87.12.184

Boy, you guys are killing me!

I am trying to catch up, but it seems forever, and tougher every day... Am I getting too old?

From Burt on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:50:53 from 68.76.197.194

The only Dixie I know is a girl.

From Mark on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:26:24 from 24.129.132.74

Burt, that's what I thought at first. Everyone kept on talking about Dixie and I thought, I'm not sure who this girl is, haven't met her yet. Then I put the name and face together one day and found out it was short for Dixon.

Jorge, hope to see you back out on the trail soon, how is the knee doing?

JimF, as always, thanks for the encouragement!

From Burt on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:31:50 from 68.76.197.194

Ha! Okay, that's better. The one Dixon I know is male, and he's from India.

From jorge on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:04:23 from 208.87.12.184

My knee is ok, I am not pushing it hard yet.. I am taking it easy.. maybe too easy???

I am 100% pain free..

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