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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  (old lines that were a little out of date but couldn't quite bring myself to removing them completely:) Also, have one wonderful brown dog named Sammy and just added a grey tiger cat (Catty) whose life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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
29.627.790.000.000.000.000.0037.41
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
4.001.160.000.000.000.000.005.16

5.16 mi, 43:16, 8:23 avg, elev gain 225 feet, HR 147 bpm

2+ loops inside Westlake Village.  I felt sluggish starting out but otherwise not bad and no dead legs feeling.  So, the first mile was a little bit slower but I made up for it eventually with a pickup at the end.

Reward today was one more notch up on vo2 max to 51

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
7.350.000.000.000.000.000.007.35

7.35 mi, 1:06:23, 9:02 avg, HR 147 bpm

Ran from my house down the trail past Lake Dan until Keystone Rd and then maybe about 0.2 miles on Keystone before turning around.  9:25 first mile and 8:44 last mile. Other miles were right around 9:00 pace.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
3.004.530.000.000.000.000.007.53

7.53 mi, 1:00:38, 8:03 avg, elev gain 285 feet, HR 158 bpm

Ran a few loops through Westlake Village, each one similar but slightly different from the others.  Was pushing it a bit more on the last full mile, down to 7:22, and then just a little bit faster for last half mile.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
6.000.670.000.000.000.000.006.67

6.67 mi, 59:28, 8:55 avg, HR 143 bpm

Ran in Palm Harbor but didn't want to do a lot of loops or a big out and back.  So, instead I did one short loop inside the neighborhood (1.25 miles), then headed onto Alderman and up Belcher before turning back just after the school, then west on Alderman until almost at Alt 19, then back to Westlake Village and finished with the loop I started with.

First mile was about 8:40, next three miles I ran progressively slower trying to keep the heart rate down.  On the final return and finish loop started to pick the pace back up doing the final 0.63 at a 7:18 pace.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
3.001.430.000.000.000.000.004.43

4.43 mi, 36:58, 8:20 avg

Quick shorter run from my house to just past Lake Dan and then back.  First three miles were somewhat easy pace with the remainder about a 7:30ish

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
6.270.000.000.000.000.000.006.27

6.27 mi, 55:03, 8:47 avg, 148 bpm

Similar to yesterday's run, but a little bit farther and was 8:47 pace rather than 8:20, so not so much like yesterday's run except maybe the route.

This was supposed to be my long run day but as has happened a lot did not get a very early start.  This time, I couldn't just suffer through the late morning or early afternoon heat.

Tom's graduation was today at 11:00 am (after having the time and place moved a few times).

All things considered it was a nice ceremony.  They had groups of three chairs (graduate and two guests), six feet of space in either direction, out doors (football/track field).

After graduation, I installed the new kitchen faucet to replace the old leaking and falling apart, now I just need to fix the rot from the water.

But, overall it was a good day.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
29.627.790.000.000.000.000.0037.41
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