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Location:

Arlington,TN,USA

Member Since:

Jun 01, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

One of the highlights of my short running career thus far has been a rather surprising 10k finish. I had never cracked sub 40:00, but while in training for a marathon, surprised myself with a 38:49 (it remains my PR). 5k - 18:45 10k - 38:49 1/2 - 1:26:57 Mar - 3:15:54 (BQ by a few seconds!)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Set PR's at every distance and count down to becoming a Master runner. Realistically, I would like to run sub 18:00 this year and lower both the 1/2 and full marathon times. Not many chances here in Memphis to run a good/fast 10k. Oh yeah, try to juggle running/racing with a full-time job, home business, family, and a new baby.

Long-Term Running Goals:

In August of 2008, I begin training for my first sub 3:00 marathon.  The race will be the St. Jude Marathon in Memphis, TN. (my hometown).   

* I began blogging, again, to help me maintain my motivation for my attempt!  Encouragement, advice, etc. is always welcome.

Personal:

I am married with one little girl (age 5) and a little boy (12 months). My daughter is beginning to run a little with me at her own leisure, I don't push her. My wife runs as well and I hope my son will someday run.

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Downtown Memphis, 2:00 p.m., cloudy, 55.  I ran 2 miles by myself as I waited for Sasha.  He looks nothing like his picture on his blog.  I had pictured this tiny little fast man, but instead saw someone completely different.  He has quite a set of quads.  We talked a bit and ran parts of the course.  I don't think that I was much help as we just ran the south downtown portion (early race).  I even got a Fastrunningblog.com t-shirt!  What a nice guy.  He has aspirations of ~2:25, but I think he will be faster.  The race is 200 above sea level.  He lives at ~4500 above sea level.  I hope he PRs.  Good luck Sasha and run well.

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Comments
From Paul Ivory on Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 21:21:10

Mikey, nice to hear you and Sasha are fired up and ready to go in Memphis. Your description of Sasha is fun to read. Have a great race. Paul

From Mikey B on Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 06:36:46

I had a stress fracture over the summer, so I won't be running. I told Sasha that he needed to update his picture. He also said I looked, "heavier" in my picture. We runners sure throw around the compliments, huh?

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