| 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: ??
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?
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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!
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Asics 2160 Miles: 190.23 | Audio Bible Miles: 10.00 | Asics 2150blk1 Miles: 34.50 |
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| | Starting the month with a day off; not the best way to get cracking on my 200 mile goal this month. Planning to run to the Y in the morning for our swim meet-up at 5:30am. That and a run after work should put me back on track :) | Add Comment |
| | 4:30am Nice easy (7:51) run to the Y and a whopping 400 yards of swimming before work. Still can't do 50 without a rest in the middle. Maybe by next week. |
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| | Hills @ 7:40 |
Audio Bible Miles: 10.00 | Asics 2160 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | 1:00pm Nice long run in the heat. Avg. 7:31 | Comments(2) |
| | Up Farwest hill and then 4 laps around Gravelly Lake before heading back home. Felt good cardio-wise, calves are not happy. 7:53 avg |
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Tacoma Runners 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:20:21, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1 | |
8:00am
TR5k Not to bad for a recovery day.
Distance Split pace 1.00 6:19 2.00 6:40 3.00 6:22 3.14 6:51
9:25am
This started out as a cooldown run and ended up a little better than expected. Nice way to end my 3rd 50 mile week :)
Distance Split pace 1.00 8:17 2.00 8:06 3.00 7:43 4.00 7:40 5.00 7:19 6.00 7:07 6.54 6:46
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Ran 5 to American Lake park to see Aimee and Keith swim in the Summerfest tri. 7:53
Ran 3.8 from American Lake to Steilacoom Park to see Aimee finish the bike leg and pace her in the run. 7:31
5k @ 11:27 A good strong finish for Aimee, and a nice cooldown run for me that I have had coming since Friday :)
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| | 4 in the park with John at 9:35 then 6 at 7:20. |
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| | 5:00am 10 miles up Farwest and Butte hills. 7:52 3:30pm 10.2 miles around Oakbrook. 7:38 |
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Ragnar Relay NWP "Route 69" Ultra Mixed Masters (38.1 Miles) 04:31:37, Place overall: 14, Place in age division: 1 | |
12:30 pm 72 degrees Legs 3/4 Very hard/Easy 12.1 miles 7:14 avg pace, 13 kills Very hard hilly run. I started right at noon and it was flippin' hot. I pushed myself really hard on this leg thinking I would take it easy on the next one. When I finally finished I had to wait a couple minutes for my runner at the exchange. seriously? Apparently she didn't expect me to run so fast in the heat. It's all good, we're just doing this for fun at this point :) For what it's worth, I managed to keep from getting passed by anyone.
10:00pm 60 degrees Legs 15/16 Hard/Moderate 10.8 miles 6:56 avg pace, 23 kills This was a fun leg. Although it was brought to my attention that we were now in competition with the Ultra Kuhl Runners, a Tacoma area family ultra team in the Mens Open division. I decided to step up my game a little for this :) It was much cooler and sub 7s actually felt pretty good. It was pitch black outside within a few minutes of my start except for the little red blinkies on each runner. There were a lot of long straightaways where I could see little red bouncing targets in the distance. I did my best to reel them all in. At exchange 15 I set my sights on a fresh runner that got out in front of me and I didn't catch him until about 50 yards short of the next exchange. I was working really hard to catch this guy and we passed a lot of other runners in the process. In the end, I finished ahead of the UKR and still haven't been passed :)
9:00am Legs 27/28 Easy/Very hard 10.5 miles 7:25 avg pace, 18 kills UKR was slightly ahead of us again so no time for messin' around. There were 2 monster hills on this leg and I passed lots of hill walkers as well as Kimberly from UKR on the second hill. I was so happy to finish my last leg without getting passed and help keep our lead on UKR. Seriously, I was sooo glad it was over... only, it wasn't over...
4:25pm Leg 36 Moderate 4.7 miles 7:07 avg pace, 8 kills We lost runner #6 during his 2nd leg so I have these 4.7 bonus miles at the end. Eric and I had to split Rob's last double leg. We had also lost our lead on UKR by about 16 minutes. We picked up a few of those minutes by the end of leg 35, but I wasn't quite sure how far ahead of us they were at this point. With two more hills on this final leg, I was sure I could catch up a little, but how much is enough? It's hot again, and my bowels are acting up, this is not good. I ducked into the POP just a few minutes before I had to run. After taking care of my business I spent my last couple minutes at the exchange encouraging another runner that "it was all downhill from here" or at least the hard part is over at exactly 2 miles in. There was a nice looong 2 mile downhill stretch after the first steep hill and then a little half mile incline to the finish. I ran a couple more sub 7s coming down that hill before I really slowed down. That last half mile was a killer! I felt like I was crawling. The team was waiting for me at the gate when I got near the finish and we all ran through together and were greeted by the Ultra Kuhl Runners who had finished about 2 minutes ahead of us. Lots of hugs and handshakes later it was time for pizza and cold ones before the long drive home.
Thanks to my running teammates: Tracey, Justina, Lesley, Eric and Rob! Volunteers: Kurt, Kristy and especially Rusty who gave me his spot on the team due to his injury. These are some truly awesome people and I can't think of anyone I'd rather spend 30 hours running 200 miles with. I hope I can do it again next year!
Results are up and we were the only Mixed Masters Ultra team so we won our division and should be getting an award for that soon. I'm not even sure if they do an awards ceremony at the event. None of us had any idea we would collect anything other than our finisher medals and a pizza. It also looks like we were the first Mixed Masters Ultra team to ever complete the Ragnar NWP. I don't know if that will get any recognition or not, but I think it's pretty cool.
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| | 4:30am My back was killing me during this run. I did something bad to it at the trampoline place with the grandsons. 7:58 avg |
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| | 4:30am My is feeling much better today. Running downhill was almost fun again. 7:37 avg. |
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4:30am 10.1 miles My back is feeling much better today. Not 100%, yet, but getting there. 7:47 avg.
6:30pm 3.3 miles Tacoma Runners Beer Run / Route 69 Team Debriefing. We had a great run and terrible service at Rock the Dock. Good times talking about all the Van antics each of us missed out on while we were running last weekend! Smokin fast for tired legs. 6:32 avg. |
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| | Dang, it's hot out there! 4 laps around Gravelly Lake. 7:48 avg. |
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Tacoma Runners 5k (3.1 Miles) 00:19:52, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1 | |
8:00am
Nailed it on tired legs! This is a tough course I've been trying to crack 20 on for a while. Mile 2 is a killer. Thanks to all the fast folks that stayed home today :)
Distance Split pace 1.00 6:16 2.00 6:37 3.00 6:23 3.10 5:23
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8:00pm
First 7 at 7:23, last 3 at 9:00 with Karina. |
Asics 2150blk1 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | 6:30pm 10 @ 7:29, then 2.5 with Kym at the highschool track. I'm not allowed to mention the pace for those :) |
Asics 2150blk1 Miles: 12.50 |
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| | 6:00pm 12 @ 7:10 Farwest & Butte hills, then a loop around Oakbrook. |
Asics 2150blk1 Miles: 12.00 |
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Asics 2160 Miles: 190.23 | Audio Bible Miles: 10.00 | Asics 2150blk1 Miles: 34.50 |
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