| 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)
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Month: | 51.70 |
Year: | 773.95 |
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| trails the on 4.
man, i'm in a rut.
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| 4 on the trails.
Also, I'm back on the not watching the news kick. I do this every now and then. This is now the background noise for my life: https://youtu.be/y0LDKI6VERU
12 hours!
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| 3 on the trails, then 1.5 miles hood route. Early sunset caught me by surprise.
I spent a couple of hours watching the boys surf south jetty today. Big wind, sloppy conditions, but always good to get my toes in the sand.
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| 5 on the trails. 63 deg., 59% hum., 48 d.p. Like running on another planet.
At about 4:30 pm, Boy #2 asked me to take him back to south jetty to surf. Waves were only @ 1 foot, but we took both boards. We got out there, and I tried surfing for the first time in (I think) 31 years. I caught a couple of waves but didn't get up. Next time maybe. It was fun, harder than I thought, and incredibly abusive to the nipples. We stayed until just after sunset.
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| 5 more on the trails.
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2 songs in my head at different times:
https://youtu.be/4gOYhHLKO6w
and
https://youtu.be/lI-BMDnti4c
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| 4 on the trails.
Then at 7:30 PM Venice High School had a football regional / district something or other playoff game. I've got a kid in the band, so I went. The governor was there. He went around and shook hands, took pictures with nearly everyone (including my son). Then he sat with the band for a while, and told the kids that they played great. Johnny said there was a time before the game where secret service had to sweep the band room, so all the kids had to get out.
Venice destroyed Plant City by eleventy points. Even when the game was out of hand, they were still running hurry up offense and throwing bombs. That kind of felt icky.
Because "senior night" was rained out last week, it was postoned to this week. That is the half time when all of the senior football players, cheerleaders, band members, and their families are introduced and thanked as they walk across the 50 yard line. Kind of cool. But this means that the halftime show will be played AFTER the game. I'm trying to get to Gainesville, man! After the game, I went home to pick up Spouse and Tommy, and we finally took off. Spouse was asleep before we hit the intersate. We arrived in Gainesville at 1:30.
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| In Gainesville. Early Kickoff. Rain before the game, missed the gatorwalk, but my kids saw it. They both fist-bumped Dan Mullen. WAY too interesting of a game for what was supposed to be a cupcake (Samford?, Really?) Didn't make the halftime show with my kids, but everyone saw it. Military Salute songs. Missed "we are the boys" with my family at the end of the third quarter. Everyone saw a post-game band performance in front of Turlington Hall, with an incredible drum line performance, but we weren't together when viewing it. And then later, the boys saw the bat houses empty. But spouse and I missed it.
For what I envisioned this weekend would be as a family bonding gator game thing, it was a complete failure. On the other hand, my sons got to experience some cool stuff, independent of me, and maybe that was the better outcome. They are teenagers, not children. I just realized this weekend that my 14 year old is taller than me.
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| Drove home from Gainesville. Surf was up at south jetty, so Tommy and I went. He was out there 3ish hours. Waves were perfect. You know, you hear a lot about surfers getting angry with each other out there about who's wave it is (Back off, Warchild, Seriously). But that has not been my experience in Venice. Everyone out there is encouraging each other. I had 3 guys come up to me on the beach and ask me if Tommy was my son, and then tell me how much he's improving. And then ask me why I'm not out there. I have, for sure, seen improvement. He is really controlling the board now, and is not just standing with the wave controlling him.
I talked for like a half hour, to one of the guys, Mike, who I guess is older than me. (I have trouble guessing age with bald guys.) He just moved down from New Jersey. He said he was surfing at most every two weeks since he was 12. There was one exception - he broke his T something vertebrae after getting slammed into the ground by a wave in Puerto Rico. Then he took off from surfing for a month. But for the rest of it, he hasn't gone more than 2 weeks in his life without surfing. Going out to surf in Jersey, with the beach covered in snow sounds insane. He has had ear damage from surfing in cold, dirty water. And he had a gazillion other stories that were equally jarring. What an interesting lifestyle choice.
I know all of this is not running related. I just had a big weekend.
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| 4 on the trails. great weather.
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I've been wearing my A1A fort lauderdale half shirt running lately. It has got to be the ugliest race shirt I have ever received. The jumping ladty is wearing the shirt here: Publix Fort Lauderdale A1A Marathon, Half Marathon & 5K
Awful, right?
I instantly gave my Med City Marathon shirt to my wife. Pink/peach hoodie, with built-in mask and thumb holes. https://www.postbulletin.com/incoming/7191892-64vyu-Med-City-Marathon-Rojas-Decut-Nunez.JPG/alternates/LANDSCAPE_768/Med%20City%20Marathon%20Rojas%20Decut%20Nunez.JPG
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| 4 on the trails in the drizzle. Pace was much quicker today.
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| AM: 4 on the trails. It might have been a longer run, but I got caught up talking to Shirtless Tire Dragger guy. I guess he was doing one of those obstacle course races in Nevada last weekend. This one: Endurance Results Leaderboard - Tough Mudder 75 miles in 24 hours with obstacles is impressive, I think.
PM: at the track. 2 up. (8) x 100M, w/ 100M AR., (4) x 400M w/ 200M AR., recoveries run first, as usual. 2 down. I timed nothing and ran entirely on effort. I didn't want to risk seeing a time I didn't like, and then blowing the whole workout. It is more important to finish. I know I'm fat, old, and slow. Specifics are not necessary.
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| 4 on the trails. Still kind of stiff from last night. But that's the point. Also, more summer: 73 deg., 87% hum., 69 d.p.
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| 5 on the trails. 2'-3' waves in Venice, so everybody that owns a surfboard is out. My kids are there, but I have to work. My parents went down to watch them, but they are having trouble since everyone in the water is wearing a black wetsuit.
Venice Jetties South Surf Report, Live Surf Cam & 16-Day Surf Forecast - Surfline
I love that my parents do this. Coolest grandparents ever.
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| 1 on the trails. 5.5 miles. hood route. 1 on the trails. 75 deg., 61% hum., 61 d.p. hot and weirdly pleasant..... Like me. HA
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| 2 on the trails. then 1.5 miles, hood route.
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