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Location:

Lakewood,WA,

Member Since:

Dec 19, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

  • 5k
    Resolution Run 5k:
    1/1/09 20:46 (6:42)
    1/1/10 19:33 (6:18)
    1/1/11 19:23 (6:15)
    1/1/12 19:33 (6:18)
    FSRC Turkey Trot:
    11/20/11 18:50 (6:04)
  • 10k
    Resolution Run 10k:
    1/24/09 42:40 (6:53)
    1/23/10 40:48 (6:35)
    1/22/11 39:40 (6:24)
  • 15k
    Resolution Run 15k:
    2/21/09 1:05:59 (7:06)
    2/20/10 1:04:15 (6:55)
    2/26/11 1:03:46 (6:51)
    2/25/12 1:02:26 (6:42)
  • 20k
    Resolution Run 20k:
    3/21/09 1:27:16 (7:01)
    3/20/10 1:26:46 (6:59)
    3/26/11 1:24:37 (6:49)
    3/24/12 1:25:27 (6:52)
  • 1/2 Marathon
    Grand Columbian 1/2 Iron Relay
    2007 1:58:29 (8:59)
    2010 1:39:07 (7:34)
  • Marathon
    2005 Portland: 3:52:21 (8:52)
    2007 Tacoma: 3:47:17 (8:40)
    2010 Eugene: 3:16:21 (7:30)
    2011 Boston: 3:25:28 (7:51)
    2011 Tunnel: 3:06:30 (7:07)
    2012 Boston: 3:53:56 (8:56)
    2012 Big Sur: 3:23:06 (7:45)
    2013 Tacoma: 3:41:25 (8:27)
    2013 Tunnel Lite: 3:07:33 (7:09)
    2014 Boston: 3:40:35 (8:20)
  • Ultra Marathon
    2013 Defiance 50k: 4:49:12 (9:18)
    2013 Steilacoom 50k: 4:44:06 (9:09)
    2014 R2R 51.9mi: 9:51:40 (11:24)

Short-Term Running Goals:

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Upcoming races: Just pacing and volunteering this year. PRs coming in 2016?

St Paddy's Day 1/2 1:50 Pacer 3/12/16

Whidbey Island 1/2 1:45 Pacer 4/?/16

Tacoma City Marathon 3:55 Pacer 5/1/16

 

Personal:

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Heb 12:11

 

Favorite Quotes:

"Go out and preach the Gospel, and if you have to, use words."  - St. Francis of Assisi

"Life is short; running makes it seem longer." - Baron Hansen

"If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand." HD?

"Rule #1. Cardio - Zombies lead a very active lifestyle, so should you." - Columbus (Zombieland)

"A one that is not cold is scarcely a one at all." - Strongbad

"Running without hills is like motorcycling without corners" -me

 

Favorite Blog Posts:

Puke and pass

My epic Beatles for Burt blogpost

Vodka at an aid station?

 

Hot tips for winter running:

Screwshoes
Poor man's cleats. this works a LOT better than you would think! Very quick and easy.

LittleHotties
Are you cheap like me? Put those little hotties in a ziplock bag and use them again tomorrow!

Kickstart your dead Garmin
Hold down the reset/lap button and the mode button together to get your 205/305/310xt to restart if it won't turn on or if it freezes up.

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Race: Bloomsday 12k (7.46 Miles) 01:17:46, Place overall: 9800, Place in age division: 536
Total Distance
7.46

9:30am

I ran the Bloomsday race with my daughter today. It's an annual event in Spokane, WA that draws about 50,000 runners/walkers every year. Karina had never ran that far before, but since she's graduating from Whitworth College in a couple weeks and moving back home she really wanted to run it this year. I am so proud of her! She only trained for about 2 months and was able to run the whole thing without walking! We ran it together along with her friend Sara at about a 10 minute pace and I took lots of pictures of them and all the other interesting things going on during the race. I'll post some of those pics later...

Pace 10:25


At the start about half way back. People are still lining up behind us.


Sara on the left, Karina on the right about 20 minutes after the gun.


It's tradition to throw your extra layers in the trees at the start. They are collected for the homeless shelter after the race.


Me and Karina still waiting to get to the start after the gun...


Cool Army band playing some Tom Petty. "Runnin' Down a Dream"


One mile and still smiling.


Some inspirational accordion music.


Water station at the 2 mile mark. Look how crowded it still is up the road...


The coolest jogging suit ever.


The bucket band banging out some cool beats.


High 5'n the cool mascott dude.


Funky white boy.


Approaching "Doomsday Hill" in the background.


Half way up and still smiling...


Still going...


Doomsday buzzard at the top of the hill.


Yay! We made it to the top!


Sweet "swing bike" I haven't seen one of those for 30 years. I always wanted one when I was a kid.


Karina and the Nalley pickle dude.


Superhero father and son. I don't know them, I just thought they were cool.


I bet that was fun to run in.


At the finish area.


Me and my girl :)

 

 

 

Comments
From Mike Warren on Sun, May 03, 2009 at 23:19:55 from 74.211.7.227

Always a blast to run with the daughter! Been watching your training, very impressed. We have pretty similiar goals, I would bet the ranch you tear the Boston goal down very soon. Keep up the training.

From rattletrap on Sun, May 03, 2009 at 23:31:21 from 70.192.104.116

Mike - Thanks for the encouragement! When is your BQ race?

From Mike Warren on Mon, May 04, 2009 at 00:21:13 from 74.211.7.227

I am running Ogden in two weeks. I have only been training for 6 weeks though. Was off 4 1/2 months with a stress fracture. My next real crack at it, will be ST. George in Oct.

From Burt on Mon, May 04, 2009 at 00:30:23 from 98.167.151.26

Sounds like a fun time RT. Can't wait for the pics.

So that's where you've been Mike W. Been seeing your comments lately and thought, "haven't seen this guy for a while." Glad you're doing better.

From marion on Mon, May 04, 2009 at 15:44:10 from 71.219.55.149

FUN!!! What a GREAT day :)

From rattletrap on Wed, May 06, 2009 at 13:05:45 from 70.192.116.185

Pics are up from the race on Sunday.

From rockness18 on Wed, May 06, 2009 at 21:45:02 from 75.9.135.162

Great pics!

From allie on Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:56:11 from 208.110.151.113

love the pictures! looks like you had a great time. congrats to you both!

From Burt on Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:48:50 from 98.167.151.26

Well, Mike. I will say this. So far in the two different profile pics that I've seen and the pics above, you look different in each one. I don't think I'd recognize you on the street. (So don't get offended if I walk on by, like when Jack Black walked on by Gwenyth Paltrow in Shallow Hal.)

From snoqualmie on Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:35:31 from 67.171.56.164

Great pictures!!! Thanks so much for posting them. Looks like everyone had a great time. Your daughter is beautiful. Love the costumes. I am quite relieved to see that the race is not a sardine can the whole way -- been especially wondering about that with Seattle RnR coming up.

From Mark on Fri, May 08, 2009 at 09:43:35 from 24.129.132.74

Awesome pictures! Looks like a lot of fun, almost felt like I was there :)

From april27 on Sun, May 24, 2009 at 14:18:27 from 99.188.251.180

Great pictures! I thought about bringing a camera to the 5K on have on Saturday. My brother and I are running it..he is a better runner and photographer so I may make him carry it. LOL

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