| 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. And as of January 18, 2025, one grandson.
I started running because someone dared me to.
I ran my first race 3 days after my 40th birthday. (Disney)
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| Miles: | This week: | 16.00 |
Month: | 60.00 |
Year: | 334.20 |
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| trails. I had hoped to start the year off big, but this is as good as I could get. Oh well, something to build on, I guess.
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| 4 on the trails. kind of chilly. boy #2 comes home from London today.
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| 8 miles. hood route to legacy trail, over the SWOM bridge and back.
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| mid day 8 miles. hood route to legacy trail, over the SWOM bridge and back.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 4 on the trails plus 3.5 hood route.
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| trails
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| Trails
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| 4 in the fog, on the trails, with not much sleep. Because, as of 3:27 this morning... 1st run as a Pop Pop! I have to shower and then I'm super stoked to go see my dad to tell him he has a great-grandson.
We were "Mr. and Mrs." at 23, "Dad and Mom" at 35, "Pop Pop and Nonna" at 54. What a wild ride!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 8 miles. hood route to legacy trail, over the SWOM bridge and back. cold I've been having trouble connecting to the blog the last couple of days.
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| Still having trouble getting in here. | |
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| 4 on the trails. cold.
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| 3 mile walk
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| 4 on the trails today. Even though I was running in the late aftenoon, I saw the shirtless tire dragger out there for a walk with his family.
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| 4 on the trails. 65 degrees. I guess winter is over now.
Unique day. I was "involved with" the changing of diapers of an 83 year old, and a 8 day old human. It's not every day you can say those words. My role with the 83 year old was mostly helping him stand up while he got cleaned. My role with the 8 day old was mostly stepping back and watching my son work, and realizing that I have forgotten a LOT about this process over the last 16 or so years.
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| more trails. fantastic weather.
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| trails. A ++ weather.
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| trails. I saw the shirtless tire dragger 4 times out there. all 4 times he was on the phone. and walking.
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| run fail
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 8 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 76 deg., 79% hum., 69 d.p.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6 on the trails
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| 8 miles. hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back.
For the last 5? 6? years I have been running some version of this route, and calling it 7.75 miles. I re-measured the route yesterday. As it turns out, I have been shorting myself by a quarter mile on each of the runs. What do I do now? 1. Continue marking this as 7.75 miles to remain consistent? 2. From this day forward, mark this as 8 miles? 3. Go back through my run history and change all of the runs to 8 miles?
The explanation of how I could be this wrong is that when I originally mapped the run on Mapmyrun, the SWOM bridge was not shown on the aerial photograph, so I had to estimate where it started and ended. Now the bridge is there, and I really underestimated the length of the span.
First run over the SWOM bridge was Dec.8th, 2018. but I think the post and comments from Dec. 9th are better: They all can't be "easy" runs.
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| 8 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. Foggy start. 73 deg., 77% hum., 65 d.p.
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| 6 rough miles on the trails. I have had an exceptionally bad diet this weekend. But the point is: 1st 40 mile week since July 2023.
Also, my youngest is a senior and a musician. Every year, they have music performance assessments (MPA's). So this is the last one. They are judged at districts, and if given "Superior" they get to go on to perform at state. My son was awarded superior at district for his performance of this piece today: https://youtu.be/9aoVhah8YLw?si=PYU6Oq6tKya01mZp
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| 10.2 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to colonia and back. I went out for 8 and got inspired, I guess. I did have to make an emergency bathroom stop on the way back. But the miles all felt pretty good. 77 deg., 69% hum., 67 d.p.
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| trails. 79 degrees. but felt hotter than that.
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| 4 on the trails. All I could get in. I was cramped for time.
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| 6 am: 3 mile walk with the neighborhood dads. We saw a starlink satellite string that was neat. https://youtube.com/shorts/QPLcEl1tJF4?si=l3qHHIf5CR4JePbx
8 am: 5 on the trails. many many dogs out there.
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| 8 miles. hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 80 deg., 84% hum., 74 d.p.
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| 8 miles. hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 80 deg., 58% hum., 64 d.p. I now have more miles this month than I did last month.
Spouse and I are going to the Savannah Bananas game today. I've seen a few videos. It looks like fun.
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| I intended to run, but helped my brother investigate an irrigation problem at his house instead. Minimal digging this time.
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| 6 on the trails. great weather, but I am sore from digging yesterday. So I really had to make myself run today.
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| 3.5 hood plus 1 trail.
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| 8 hood route to legacy trail, over the SWOM bridge and back. This run felt really good and fast. Possible explanations are 1. temps dropped @ 30 degrees overnight. 2. I took yesterday off from running. 3. I ate a comical amount of zucchini at dinner last night. What is in that stuff?
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| 8 hood route to legacy trail, over the SWOM bridge and back.
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| trails.
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| trails. I did not have sideways 40 mph snow out there.
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| 8 hood route to legacy trail, over the SWOM bridge and back.
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| 8 hood route to legacy trail, over the SWOM bridge and back.
73 deg., 46% hum., 51 d.p. Low humidity is fantastic!
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| 4 on the trails at sunset
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| 4 on the trails in the AM. I haven't seen high tide in Curry Creek in a long time. I saw a 6'-8' FAT gator sunning himself on the opposite side of the creek, and I had to stop and check him out. The gator became the talk of the trail, as everyone I passed said "did you see the gator?"
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| The tail end of last week got kind of crazy with things with my dad. It's a very long story but my dad passed away this morning. His decline over the last 12 years has been dramatic, and a couple of times I mentioned it here. In a way, this makes the "letting him go" part of the process less difficult. The day closed with my son bringing my 7 week old gransdson around to everyone. Babies are a miracle cure for the blues in this situation.
As it pertains to running, I'll get back to it. Pop was proud of my running. For him to get on a plane (which he hated) to fly to Boston and be in a big crowd (which he hated) to see me running for, at most, 5 seconds in that race, lets me know he was proud. He was always a heavy guy, and he took up running during the late 70's / early 80's running boom. When I was a kid, he and I used to run together on what is now the Delaware Canal Towpath in Levittown PA. Back then it was just a grass levee. He didn't stick with running because sometimes life gets in the way of running. And I'm sure he was glad that I picked it up again later in my life.
I am amazed by the Hospice folks. They were wonderful to my dad the last week.
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| 4 on the trails on what would have been pop's 84th birthday.
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| 4 on the trails
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| 6 on the trails.
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| 3 on the trails. didn't have it today.
However, in the public restroom by the soccer fields, Homeless electric bike guy had his bike in the handicap stall, and was playing ukelele while sitting on the toilet. That was unique.
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| 4 on the trails. 54 degrees. The temps were great, but this year's oak pollen season is really beating me up.
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| No mojo | |
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| 4 on the trails. All of them I had to will into existence. For the last 5 years, I have been trying to climb out of a running hole, almost getting there, and then falling back in. This one seems pretty deep. | |
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| 4 on the trails.
There was a woman out on the soccer fields, doing 100 m barefoot grass sprints. She must have done a significant amount of them, because I saw her as I passed on every lap. Like, her workout could very well have been: Repeat Sprints, Until Failure. Years ago, this was part of my deal. And I got to thinking, this would be a good way for me to slowly work back "speed" as part of the conversation for my running. Hmmm.
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| 4 on the trails + (8) x 100m grass at increased effort (I can't call these "sprints" with a straight face) + 100m AR on the soccer fields. I was going to wait until I built up something of a base before I started trying to run faster again. But then at church this morning, the sermon could be linked to - If you wait for perfect conditions, you'll never get anything done. (Ecclesiastes 11:4, if you're interested.) Anyhow, we'll see how long this divine intervention keeps up. I know I'm going to feel this tomorrow.
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| 4 on the trails + (8) x 100m grass at increased effort + 100m AR on the soccer fields. Same drill as yesterday, except today the faster stuff was run on laps 2 and 3. Feeling some tightness in the upper hamstring / lower glute, which I think indicates that I'm getting my knees higher than what I have been on regular slow stuff, which is good.
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| 4 on the trails + (8) x 100m grass at increased effort + 100m AR on the soccer fields. Same drill as yesterday. I met a guy on the fields, named Ademar? Ademir? from Brazil. Interesting guy. Heavy accent. Turns out, he may have coached me at some soccer camps when I was @ 12 or 13 years old. He's been a server at some high-end place on Boca Grande, for 48 years. Hurricane Milton trashed the place, and it is still being rebuilt.
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| 4 on the trails + (8) x 100m grass at increased effort + 100m AR on the soccer fields. Same drill as yesterday. A walker was taking pictures of what I thought was a stick, which was actually a small rattlesnake. I need to think about running with glasses.
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| 4 on the trails + (8) x 100m grass at increased effort + 100m AR on the soccer fields. Same drill as yesterday, except on a different field because some dudes were playing soccer on my usual field. I talked to Adamir again today.
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| 4 on the trails + (8) x 100m grass at increased effort + 100m AR on the soccer fields. Same drill as yesterday. I lost lots of time today running because of 1. A fat 3'-4' rattlesnake on lap # two. I had to stop and throw sticks at it to get it off the path. and 2. Lots of people wanted to talk to me today. Ademir, the Bahbcaht Whizz guy., etc. I must not look focused while running. I wish I wasn't so stinking approachable!
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| 4 on the trails + (8) x 100m grass at increased effort + 100m AR on the soccer fields. I guess this should be written as: 1.5 trails, (4) x 100m on grass at increased effort + 100m AR, 1 trails, (4) x 100m on grass at increased effort , 1.5 trails. I'm going to try to do this (again) all week, and then do a couple of 8 milers on the weekend.
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| 4 on the trails + (8) x 100m grass at increased effort + 100m AR on the soccer fields. I wore my Gator running shirt, yesterday and today. I got a lot of "Go Gators" out there.
Look, I'm an extremely biased Gator grad, and as such, I am happy with the outcome of the game. However, I can still feel bad for that Houston player, Sharp?, for how the game ended. And also, I can recognize that the officiating was hot garbage. It was as if they had two sets of refs for the game: first half refs called nothing, and the second half refs were way more involved. I say stuff like this, and people question my Gator-ness. Neither of those two ideas make me any less of a Gator fan.
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| 4 on the trails + (8) x 100m grass at increased effort + 100m AR on the soccer fields.
Pop's funeral and burial is today.
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| Yesterday went great. As good as can be expected. My boys did the readings at mass, I did the prayer of the faithful, father Michael had a great sermon. The internment ceremony at Sarasota National was moving, with taps, and the presentation of the flag to my mom. Then at the gathering afterwards, my brother made a wonderful speech about my dad. But it was also a long day, that ended with some long talks with close friends, reminiscing about my dad. As anybody would have predicted, there was no running today. I did do a 40 minute walk, though.
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| 4 on the trails + (8) x 100m grass at increased effort + 100m AR on the soccer fields.
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| 4 on the trails
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| 4 on the trails. 1st run in new baby blue hokas. I ran 804 miles in the last pair. I guess I was due.
I have always admired that "logged miles = the circumference of the earth" thing that jtshad has on his blog. I am now under 900 miles to get to that goal.
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| 4 on the trails
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| Having the dew point and humidity below 70 is amazing. I hope this keeps up for a while.
PM: Khruangbin concert in Clearwater. Pretty cool stuff.
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