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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
Sat, Apr 25, 2009
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
13.600.0013.60

I started out with Sasha, Ted, Jeff, and James, Ted's son. After 2 miles Sasha took off for a tempo of sorts. We continued on to 3 miles where everyone else turned around. I continued on. I wanted to get a long run in. I was originally thinking about 10.1 and then thought it would be good to add a couple of miles on at the end. On the way back I decided to just do a full 13.1 miles. To my knowledge, I've never run that far consecutively. I might have done it in college because we did longer days on Saturday at the Indiana Dunes state park on Lake Michigan, but I never timed it or noted how far it was. I finished with a time of 1:37:26 (7:26/mile) with the last mile in 6:30. I wanted to see how I felt going a little faster after 12.1 miles. It felt good. My legs felt tired at 7:30 pace, but they actually felt better at 6:30. Maybe I was using some different muscles to go faster and they weren't as tired. As I write this now in the afternoon, my legs feel pretty good. There is some residual soreness, but nothing big. That's progress!

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