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December 24, 2024

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Location:

IL,USA

Member Since:

Oct 23, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

800 - 2:03 - 1999 Mid-Con. Championships - Kansas City, MO

1500 - 4:12 - 1999 Mid-Con. Championships - Kansas City, MO

Mile(indoors) - 4:34 - 2000 NIFS track - Indianapolis, IN

3-mile - 18:04 - 2021 Broadway Bolt, Mattoon, IL

5K - 16:59(split) - 1998 Mid-Con. CC Championships, Chicago, IL; 17:33 - 1995 Charger Classic, Crawfordsville, IN

8K - 26:52 - 1998 Indiana Intercollegiates - West Lafayette, IN

10K - 37:28 - 1998 - NCAA Great Lakes Regional - Terre Haute, IN

Ran in the 2002 Hood-to-Coast Relay.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back into shape and lower my running times (5K and 10K in particular).

Run a half marathon and possibly a marathon.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Still be running 20+ years from now.

Personal:

I ran cross country and track in high school in good old Indiana and at Valparaiso University in college. I've been married for 17 years now to my beautiful wife Kathleen. We have 4 wonderful kids, and I teach physics, astronomy, and earth science at Lake Land College in Mattoon, IL.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 96.75
White/black/yellow Lifetime Miles: 306.90
Saucony Cohesion 13 Lifetime Miles: 111.25
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.750.003.75

Ran out to Peterson Park, around the park a couple times, and back home for about 3.75 miles. It was pretty hot and humid. I saw the cross country camp runners finishing their workout. Symphany is still recovering from Covid and hasn't run for a week and a half. I probably could have run with the cross country camp, but it feels weird without my daughter there running.

The YM activity tonight was disc golf at the EIU course. I brought a small kid's frisbee and an ultimate frisbee. One of the young men needed a frisbee, so I offered him the choice. He chose the big one leaving me with the kid frisbee. I had fun throwing it about 25 feet, running after it, and doing it again and again and again. I was the only one running after my frisbee. The guy showing us how to do it actually had some real discs and was pretty good. After about six holes into the 9 hole course, I asked if I could borrow a disc. My score was cut in half after that. Having the right equipment helps.

White/black/yellow Miles: 3.75
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