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Location:

Buffalo,NY,

Member Since:

Aug 15, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Personal Bests
  • 1500m : 4:43 (May 2001)
  • 1 mile: 5:18 (August 2012) 
  • 5k: 17:39 (December 2003)
  • 8k: 30:02 (June 2003)
  • 10k: 37:21 (November 2003)
  • 15k : 59:48 (July 2012)
  • 10 miles: 62:39 (February 2002)
  • Half-Marathon (Covered Bridges): 1:23:29 (June 2002)
  • Marathon (Wineglass): 3:04:42 (Oct 2011)
  • Half Ironman (Tupper Lake): Swim 38:19, Bike 3:01:xx (with flat tyre change), Run 1:58:xx, Total time 5:44:44 (Jun 2004)

Short-Term Running Goals:

General Goals for 2013

  • Break 3 hours as Boston
  • Mile in 5:00
  • 5k in 17:30

Results and my 'A' Races for 2013 (Click for Race Report)

  • Y-10 10 Miler (February 9)
    • Goal: 63? (honestly, no idea)
    • DNS
  • Boston Marathon (April 15)
    • Goal: 2:57
    •  Time: 3:12:46
  • Springville Stampede (May 9)
    • Goal: 18:36
    • Time: 18:28
  • Chase Corporate Challenge 3.5 (June 6)
    • Goal: 20:30
    • Time: 20:30
  • Brian Moorman PUNT Foundation Blackbird 8K (June 19)
    • Goal: 30:00
    • Time: 30:03
  • Boilermaker 15k (July 14)
    • Goal 58:00
  • Mueller Mile (August)
    • Goal 5:00
  • Run into Buffalo 15k  (Sept 2)
    • Goal 57:30
  • Troy Turkey Trot 10k (Nov 28)
    • Goal 37:00

Long-Term Running Goals:

  1. Sub 3:00 Marathon
  2. 17:00 5k
  3. 1:20 Half-marathon

Personal:

Originally from the small town of Galway, NY (near Saratoga), I currently live in Buffalo, NY.  I'm a community pharmacist  I  graduated from the University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy with my pharmD in 2007 and my PhD in 2011. I'm married and have 2 dogs (Sadie, a lab, and Ralphie, a Eskie mix).  We enjoy anything outdoors from Backpacking and hiking to snowboarding.

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Ralphie's Lifetime Miles: 346.60
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Long run with a friend again!

Ran down to meet her and we ran a loop of the cemetery before dropping her off and heading home.  Paced it out to 7:45 with the middle 5 being around 8:10s

Knee still feels good!

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Had to make up a couple runs so I ran a double today

AM: 5 miles real easy (8:10s)

PM: 5 miles easy again (with sadie)

Wore my Ravennas in the morning and my Adrenalines for the PM run.  Guess which run made my knee sore!

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We had our year end track meet for our running club.  I decided to run a 400 and partake in the 4x800 relay (with teams made by the coach to try to get equal finish times)

Did a 2 mile warm up

400m open:  Went out too fast and held on to run 64.8.  I started in lane 3 and made up the stagger by 150m (so way too fast!).  I had my friend hot on my tail and I had to hold him off So painful and my legs felt like jello the last 50m.  Not my fastest 400 (I was around 61 in HS with a 63 400IM hurdles) but pretty good seeing as I had no race specific training.

 4x800 relay:  Our team decided that I was to be anchor.  Not sure of my split time, probably about 2:40.  I was still hurting from the 400.  I got the baton with our team in second and 1st had about 150 m on me and I couldn't catch him.  Lost by 20 seconds.  Our team ran 11:34, not bad

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easy 8 at 7:55 and boy are my quads sore from yesterday

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7 at recovery pace (8:30s).  My poor quads :(

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mid week long run.  Kinda rough to start but I loosened up and felt good towards the end.  

I'm getting really good at this running before work thing.  Waking up at 6am is pretty easy now and if I try to go back to sleep for lack of motivation I feel guilty and I'm out the door by 6:30.  I like it!

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Long Run:  Did not want to but I had to do it today instead of Sunday.  Went to the bike path to do it in the cold and the rain (YUCK). Felt good so I decided to push the pace a little to see how my legs were.  Averaged 7:26 miles with really even splits.  I was surprised by how well it went but I think some of it was running faster so I could get done

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