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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 14 years now to my beautiful wife Kathleen. We have 3 wonderful kids, and I teach physics, astronomy, and earth science at Lake Land College in Mattoon, IL.

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Same old story here only the knee started hurting sooner.  It seems to be getting worse even with the time off.  I'm going to try a bike.

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I decided to give biking a try and Sasha offered his bike. I ran a little bit on the way to Sasha's house, but I could tell the knee wasn't liking it. I decided to try the regular 10.1 mile course along the trail. Sasha got out the bike and the back tire was completely flat. He aired it up, and we crossed our fingers hoping that it was a slow leak. I didn't want to get about 5 miles out and be flat again. I checked it at the halfway point, and it was losing air pretty quickly. It felt like it had lost about half of the air we put in. I made it to about 9 and it was getting too flat to ride so I walked it the rest of the way back. In total it was about 9 good miles on the bike and about 0.25 running. The knee hurt a little after the ride, but nothing like it does after running. It was a good quad workout though.

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