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Location:

Mooresville,NC,

Member Since:

May 01, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

2007 Highlights: Litchfield Road Race (7.1) in 58:36

2008 Highlights: New Jersey Marathon in 4:12, Bay State Marathon in 3:10:30

2009 Highlights: Boston Marathon in 3:13:26, Litchfield Road Race in 49:30, New Haven 20k in 1:25:03, Bay State Marathon in 3:09:09

2010 Highlights: Bradley 10k in 39:58, Litchfield Road Race in 48:06, New Haven 20k in 1:23:59, Ghost Trail 1/2 Marathon in 1:29:12 (trail), Philadelphia Marathon in 3:06:59

2011 Highlights: Litchfield Road Race in 47:44, Ghost Trail 1/2 Marathon in 1:28:35, Goshen Turkey Trot in 40:46, Jingle Bell 5k in 19:05

2012 Highlights: Finished Boston Marathon in 3:41:59 in 89 degree heat, broke the top 100 in Litchfield Road Race (82nd), 1st Place (overall) in Solstice 5k, Hogsback 1/2 in 1:29:36, and bq'd in Bay State Marathon (3:14:20).

Personal Records

1-mile: 5:39/track (2008)

5k: 19:05/Jingle Bell (2011)

10k: 39:58/road race (2010)

20k: 1:23:59 (2010/New Haven)

1/2 marathon: 1:28:35 (2011/Ghost Trail)

marathon: 3:06:59 (2010/Philly)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub-3:05 marathon in Fall

Sub-1:23 in New Haven 20k

Sub-46 min in Litchfield RR

Sub-19 in 5k

Sub-5:30 in mile

Upcoming Races:

TBD

Long-Term Running Goals:

sub-3hr marathon

sub-5:15 min mile

become a competitive master's runner

win age division in smaller marathon

Personal:

Married w/six daughters (9 year age span)

Pastor a church in NC

Enjoy travel and recreation with family

Began running in November of 2007

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to Ukraine's Armed Forces

Miles:	This week:	24.00	Month:	90.00	Year:	1425.00
Barefoot Lifetime Miles:						114.25
K12- Black Lifetime Miles:						401.00
Kinvara 13 (blue 1) Lifetime Miles:						341.00
Kinvara 13 (blue 2) Lifetime Miles:						366.00
Kinvara 14 Neon Lifetime Miles:						388.00
Kinvara 14/teal Lifetime Miles:						520.50
Kinvara Blue/red Lifetime Miles:						377.00
Kinvara 15 (blue/grey) Lifetime Miles:						238.50
Kinvara 14 Green Lifetime Miles:						280.00

Wed, Feb 11, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.00

50 degrees today! Headed out for a run with Rick. Had a bit of a scare...while talking stepped in a pothole and twisted my ankle a bit. Felt tender, but kept a slow pace through a 5-mile run and gained strength as we went. I'll be careful the next day or two. Not too much swelling, so things should be fine. Plan on running a little later in the day...

Guys at the running store are getting sick of me. Returned the under armor spectre's after 2 runs...felt great in the store, horrible on my second run. Realized they are for high arches (I'm neutral). Next day (today), returned saucony's and the guy was like I'm going to lose money off you. Apologized, but still exchanged them for a pair of trigons- why experiment, when I know I feel good in the trigons.

5 more recovery miles on the TM.

Trigons (2) Miles: 5.00

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From smally on Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 15:56:37

getting the miles in because you motivate me, thanks.

as soon as the hill, only hill dries up I am going to marry that hill for the next 6 weeks. i also plan on running some easy runs down hill, meaning putting something under the treadmill for 6-10 miles then the next day I will run hills.

Friday is the first progressive run - 12 miles around 7:15 then I want to run at least 6:52's if not 6:40's for the last 5 miles.

Your grinding it out this week, nice especially yesterday's run.

Todd

From rockness18 on Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 17:32:52

iron sharpens iron...right? Great to see you working hard.

From Robert on Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 17:45:20

I hope the ankle heals quickly. You are a frugal consumer and that's important in these economic times.

From Brian on Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 18:19:51

I'm not very fond of the tread mill, but I find it great for speedwork and hills, but its so boring!....especially longer runs.

Going to try and get one day per week of speedwork in and keep my base of 60 plus miles...feeling quite good right now.

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