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June 2016

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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, 18, 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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3.5 miles. Hood route. Big Tailwind on the first half. Collin is a jerk. I had plans for this week, running and otherwise, and he's kind of messing things up.

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2 days in a row? Look out for this guy! 80 deg., 87% hum., 75 d.p.

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I'm going to get one of these things! Every day should start by bungee jumping off of a flaming fountain power plant.

5:45 pm. RINGLING BRIDGE RUN! 5.2 miles. It was tough. Super duper hot, and I'm out of shape, but I ran the whole thing. It was good getting back to some old sights, sounds, and smells, and kind of weird parking in my old job's parking lot, but I had an opportunity to do it, and I'm glad I did.

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3.6 miles. hood route. 6 am strt. Then I drove to Fruit Cove to pick up the kids.

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5.5 miles. 6 pm start. on Legacy Trail. After driving back from Fruit Cove. It's Pretty hot out there, and I'm not in good shape, unless you consider "round" to be good. I haven't been on a scale in a while, and MIL has one. That was worse than expected. I'm working out a new set of goals, and losing weight is fairly high on the list.

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3.5 miles. Hood route. 6:15 am start. Fat man running shirtless! Look out!

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3.5. Hood. 6 am. Hot.

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6 am start. Testing out new asics something or another that i bought cheap yesterday at the sports authority going out of business sale. Shoes felt good. My stomach was upset this morning for some reason. I'm going to have to run some vurpy free miles.

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10.2 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail to colonia ave. And back.great sunrise. Three different rain events. New shoes are acceptable. A bit quicker than i was expecting. Under 8:15 pace. Go figure.

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10.2 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail to Colonia Ave. and back. 6:40 am start. Much slower than yesterday.

Anyhow, I got to thinking - if you are running for the school board, and you have the letter "O" somewhere in your name, are you obligated to replace that "O" with an apple on your signs? Does someone without an "O" in their name find themselves at a disadvantage to someone with an "O", when running for school board? What about the letter "L" , being replaced with a pencil? Would you vote for the apple or the pencil? I'm just saying, it's a lot to consider, when voting. And school board is kind of important. Think of the children!

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I already miss the regular schedule of the school year. It seema that every week during summer, some schedule change occurs.

I'm going to try to add to this tonight.

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7.5 miles. Hood route to legacy trail and back. 6:30 am start.

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7.5 miles. Hood route. 6:30 a.m. start...

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7.5 miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start. The bugs were delicious!

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5.5 miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start. Less bugs, but more spiderwebs. That might be a direct relationship there.

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7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. 5:40 am start. Not much bugs or spiderwebs, but a humid stillness that was creepy. Like, dew-accumulating-on-your-eyelashes level humidity.

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