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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  (old lines that were a little out of date but couldn't quite bring myself to removing them completely:) Also, have one wonderful brown dog named Sammy and just added a grey tiger cat (Catty) whose life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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No running today.  But I did do 30 minutes on the rowing machine then 30 minutes of light weight/high reps.

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I was supposed to run this morning.  But something ominous happened.  My wife suggested that I take the day off.   She never tells me to do that.  We pretty much have an agreement between us that it is our job to tell the other person to go exercise when they don't feel like it.  Oftentimes when you don't feel like going that is when you need to exercise the most. 

It was very hard not to run today. 

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One more day of no running.  I did stationary bike for just over 30 minutes, then another 30 minutes of weights.    At least the bike was easier this time compared to last time.  Hoping for a completely pain free run tomorrow.

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Well, after taking off a few days from running to see if my foot gets better I tried running today.  I resisted the urge to do a tempo run that someone else was doing and stuck with the "slow" group.  Ended up with overall 8:14 pace.  Aerobically, it felt very good and easy.  I was a little worried that it would feel hard because I missed more days in a row than I have for a long time.  About 2.5 miles into the run foot started to ache a little bit.  As usual, it wasn't bad and never got worse but it was still there.   One of the guys I run with is a physical therapist and he seems to think it sounds like tendonitis but I think I'll see the doctor just in case it is worse than that.

 

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Did some swimming this morning.  Just over 20 minutes.  At least it was something.  I'm not a very good swimmer but today I got a little bit better at breathing while attempting free style.   Did some ab work and light leg work (leg extensions and leg curls, nothing weight bearing) after the swim.

 Had my doctor appointment which went pretty good.  Diagnosis is tendonitis.  I'm still a little bit afraid of there being a stress fracture that the x-ray won't see.  However based on the low level of pain and the lack of pain keeping me up at night the doctor did not think there was enough there to justify a bone scan.   The bump on top of my foot is probably some irritation to the bone covering, possibly going back to when I dropped a bucket of sand on my foot six years ago and does not neessarily indicate a stress fracture.   And, at least she didn't say anything like "I can't believe you ran on this yesterday!"    So, overall that was good news.

I'll try a not very far and slow run tomorrow after a good warmup.

 

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Good long run today.  Absolutely no pain for the first 5 miles then a little bit after that which showed up after five miles, wasn't very much and never got worse.  This was an improvement over the last couple of runs.  Kept the pace pretty reasonable.  A few miles were faster but most were around 8:00 with some longer.  Overall pace was 8:14.  Ran the first 10 miles with David.  Joe and Bob were with us for the first 7.  I headed back out after the 10 with David.  It was warming up and was a bit humid today.  Temperature at the end was 83ยบ.

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