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Location:

Venice,FL,USA

Member Since:

Oct 31, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

5k:
21:01, (6:46 pace) 11-19-11.
20:08, (6:29 pace) 9-1-12 (Part of a Mini-Triathlon Relay).
19:17, (6:12 pace) 11-17-12.
19:19, (6:13 pace) 11-23-13.
19:30, (6:17 pace) 1-4-14.
20:34, (6:34 pace) 9-13-14
19:49, (6:23 pace) 10-25-14
19:32, (6:17 pace) 11-22-14
19:40, (6:19 pace) 12-19-14
19:49, (6:23 pace) 1-31-16

8k:
34:42, (6:57 pace) 3-17-12.
32:11, (6:28 pace) 3-16-13.
32:32, (6:33 pace) 3-15-14. 

34:00, (6:50 pace) 3-14-15.

33:09, (6:40 pace) 3-11-17.

32:56, (6:38 pace) 3-17-18.

10k:
44:18, (7:08 pace) 4-14-12.
41:22, (6:39 pace) 12-15-12.
42:11, (6:47 pace) 4-13-13.
41:06, (6:37 pace) 12-8-13.

42:03, (6:46 pace) 3-5-16

44:35, (7:11 pace) 8-26-17
12k:
53:53, (7:14 pace) 3-24-12.
49:20, (6:37 pace) 3-1-14
15k:
1:18:16, (8:24 pace) 2-26-11.

1:04:37. (6:56 pace) 2-20-16

1:08:25 (7:18 pace) 2/22/20

Half Marathons:

1:37:57 (7:28 pace) 1-26-20. Fort Lauderdale - A1A 
14 Marathons:
1.  4:12:08, (9:37 pace) 1-9-11. Disney.
2.  4:18:18, (9:51 pace) 10-30-11. MCM.
3.  3:42:26, (8:29 pace) 1-14-12. Charleston.
4.  3:13:15, (7:22 pace) 10-7-12. Steamtown.
5*.  3:12:26, (7:20 pace) 1-19-14. Louisiana.
6*.  3:14:06, (7:24 pace) 4-21-14. Boston.
7*.  3:19:38, (7:37 pace) 7-19-14. U. of Okoboji.
8*.  3:16:27, (7:30 pace) 2-22-15. Mercedes-Benz
9*. 3:30:38 (8:03 pace) 5-15-16 Sugarloaf

10. 3:24:21 (7:48 pace) 11-5-16 Savannah RNR

11. 3:27:37 (7:56 pace) 5-12-18 Brookings

12. 3:46:02 (8:38 pace) 10-7-18 Towpath

13. 3:35:11 (8:13 pace) 9-12-21 Med City

14. 3:45:45 (8:37 pace) 4-16-23 Coastal Delaware

* = These 5 races were run at 67.9 seconds per pound. If I want a PR, I need to weigh less than 170 pounds.

Short-Term Running Goals:

2024 GOALS:

to not get fat

Long-Term Running Goals:

Continue running as often as I can, as far as I can, as fast as I can. Teaching my kids (by example) the rewards that come from putting in the work. Very slowly get to 50 states.

Personal:

I'm married, with two sons, 17, and 19.

I started running because someone dared me to.

I ran my first race 3 days after my 40th birthday. (Disney)

My profile picture story: http://www.melissajill.com/blog.cfm?postID=1492&boston-marathon

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3 rough miles on the trails. I might have been overserved at the Braves game. Also, really feeling all of the salt from those peanuts today. 

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4 on the trails. super humid. soccer season is in full swing, so the part of the run through the soccer fields parking lot is super sketchy. I had a weird mashup of 2 songs in my head - Collective Soul's Gel, and Nine Inch Nails' Everyday is Exactly the Same. I have no explanation for this. 

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4 on the trails. so many people walking dogs with no leash. 

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4 on the trails. 

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4 on the trails. Making my move to catch up with Eugene this week. 4 miles closer. 

I had BNL's "Achohol" and SOAD's "Hypnotize" stuck in my head for this one. 

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strawberry festival. 

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lithia springs

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trails. 311. all day. 

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4. Everyone in Venice is talking about 2 things right now: A Dead Whale and Oak Pollen. 

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On the trails. Today is Pop's 83rd Birthday. We have dinner over there tonight. I remember when I was a kid, during the 1970's running boom, "helping" my dad lose weight by running with him along the Delaware Canal Towpath in Levittown. Man, he hated running, but it's better than being fat. I had a running outfit, that believe it or not, was like terry cloth, or a beach towel material. That's like the opposite of running clothes today. I should go back there and run that again. I'm sure it's better maintained than it was in the 70's. 

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Sick.

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Tim Mcgraw at Amalie Arena.

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7.5 miles. Hood route to legacy trail and back. Wore my St. Paddy's day race shirt from 10 years ago. 

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4 on the trails, then 3.5 hood route. overcast, stagnant, hot, and humid for the whole thing. 78 deg., 98% hum., 77 d.p. 

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Trails. Runfail.

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4 on the trails. Talked too long to the shirtless tire dragger. Braves Spring Training game this afternoon with spouse. 

I just noticed Adam RW left the blog about a month ago. It's not like we were tight, but we commented on each other's pages every now and then. There's 35 of us left here, every month, posting about running, and non-running things. I have no other social media. No facebook, no instachats, etc. Every now and then someone asks me when something occurred. And I think "oh that was after such and such race", and I go to the blog and I find the date. There's a lot of memories I have posted here over the last 12 years. I guess I have no real point to what I'm saying. Just kind of melancholy about it. 

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4 on the trails in the rain. it was awesome. 

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7.5 miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail and Back. This is the best a run has felt in a long time. I felt like I had kind of powerful strides. No quite back to the "well-oiled-machine" running from years ago. But it was a good run. 75 deg., 95% hum., 74 d.p. Lots of family visiting from out of town this weekend. Big dinner at mother in law's last night. 

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3 on the trails, then 5.5 miles hood route on a beautiful Palm Sunday. 

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4 on the trails. light rain, big breezes. 

My dad went into the hospital Monday. So my week has been mostly about that. But I had to get out and run this morning. 

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4 on the trails. lots of runners today. 

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