| 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.
Other:
Logged (on computer) 24,901 miles (circumference of the earth) in 5,744 days (11/20/25) 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, 19, and 20. 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: | 14.00 |
Month: | 14.00 |
Year: | 280.10 |
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| trails.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 on the trails with the shirtless tire dragger. lots of talking. faster paces.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 on the trails. And just like that, I'm back in a running funk.
This weekly cycle of seeing the grandson on the weekends is kind of emotionally draining on Sunday nights. I get so melancholy when he's gone. Spouse and I are going to see Song Sung Blue tonight. My mom loves Neil Diamond, so I grew up listening to a lot of his stuff. It should be an excellent distraction from my usual Sunday night sadness.
That movie was excellent. Kate Hudson nailed the Wisconsin accent.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 on the trails. Kind of ticked off about some things, so the pace was snappy-er than usual.
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| 4 on the trails. 78 degrees.
I know it was designed with good marketing intentions, and was sent to me by a bot, but there is something weird about getting a Happy Birthday text from your Urologist's office.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 on the trails. Late run start because I had to wait for AC maintenance guy to show up, and do whatever it is I'm paying him for every six months. Spouse says "This guy looks really old. Should he be climbing up into our attic?" I asked her how old does she think he is? She said seventy something. So after he was done, I asked him how old he was. He's 2 years older than me.
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| trails
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| trails. 78 degrees. and humid. Moving boy #2 to USF today.
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| 3 on the trails. Of course they moved him to the 3rd floor.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 on the trails.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| On the trails. 56 degrees and raining. Weatherman says it will be 34 degrees tomorrow morning.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 on the trails. 46 degrees when i started. not that cold.
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| Nice 1st birthday party for my grandson.
Later we saw Southern Culture on the Skids at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa. It was a really good show. Kind of like a cross between The Reverend Horton Heat, Primus, Toadies, B52's, and maybe Stray Cats?
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| on the trails. less than 50 degrees.
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| 3 on the trails. It felt pretty quick this evening. I saw my neighbors (That are training for the Gasparilla 15k) out there, several times.
At the end of this month, it will be 10 years since I ran a 5k.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Something different today. I've been meaning to try this run for a while. 2 miles to the track. (4) x 200m, with 200m AR, 2 miles home. Running with effort was much harder than I expected. But on the other hand, it has been almost 3 years. I had to start somewhere.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 4 on the trails plus (2) x 100m at extra effort + jog back at soccer field on each lap.
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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. Extra effort last 1/4 mile. Longest run this year? 83 deg., 56% hum., 65 d.p.
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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. Extra effort last 1/4 mile. 81 deg., 67% hum., 69 d.p.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 4 on the trails plus (4) x 100m at extra effort + jog back at soccer field on first 2 laps
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 on the trails. 55 degrees.
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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. Extra effort last 1/4 mile. 40 deg. at the run start, 50 deg. at the run finish.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 4 on the trails plus (4) x 100m at extra effort + jog back at soccer field on first 2 laps. 45 degrees at the run start. 55 degrees at the run finish. Yes, I overdressed for that.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 on the trails in the pm. I ran out of daylight. Busy day at work. 60 degrees. Very snappy pace.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 on the trails. I ran early. 60 degrees. It's supposed to be 40 degrees 12 hours later. Also, There's a possibility for SNOW tomorrow morning. The last time it snowed in Venice was Christmas 1989. SNOW.
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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. Extra effort last 1/4 mile. 40 deg. at the run start. No snow this morning. I don't think the possibility of snow was as close as advertised.
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| 3 on the trails. 50 degrees.
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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. Extra effort last 1/4 mile. 60 deg., 25% hum., 27 d.p. Even with the great weather conditions, something felt off at halfway on the run.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 3 on the trails plus (4) x 100m at extra effort + jog back at soccer field on first 2 laps.
Then toYbor City for a quick trip with Spouse.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 on the trails after driving back from Ybor City. 55 degrees and 25 mph winds. But that's not what cut this run short. It was the large cuban snadwich and side of beans and rice lunch. I ate enough food for this week, I think.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| 3.5 miles hood route, then 1 on the trails. 45 degrees at the start of the run.
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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. Extra effort last 1/4 mile+. This run felt pretty darn good.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 on the trails. 68 deg., 36% hum., 41 d.p. weather was perfect. I could have gone much further, but I tripped and fell on lap 3, and had to tuck and roll. I can't believe it. I know these trails. How does this happen?
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| 4 on the trails. another evening run. Great weather. I met another similar speed runner. Mike - His daughter was at softball practice. Much younger dude. Ran with him for about a 1/4 mile.
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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. Extra effort mile, especially last 3/4 mile. 72 degrees, 51% hum., 52 d.p.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 4 on the trails plus (4) x 100m at extra effort + jog back at soccer field on first 2 laps. 74 degrees.
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| 4 on the trails. I totally wasn't feeling it. But then....
On lap 2, an elderly couple were walking their dog. he tripped and fell near the parallel bars. I asked them if he needed some help. They politely said no. He got up and they were on their way. I saw them later on the lap.
On lap 3, a guy with sweatpants and a soccer jersey asks me if I lost my keys. I said no, but did you find them by the parallel bars? He said yes. I said there's an elderly couple walking a dog, about 150 yards that way, I'm pretty sure those are their keys.
On lap 4, I see the elderly couple again. and I asked them if they have their keys. They are surprised that I knew they lost their keys. So I told them about the seatpants guy. How is it even possible that they missed each other? I ran down to the soccer feilds, looking for the sweatpants guy and couldn't find him. Then ran back to the olds. The old couple had a great attitude, and said it was only their mailbox keys. No big deal. But where did sweatpants guy go?
Also, at various points on this very short run, there were 3 groups of people walking their dogs off leash, 2 kids on electric dirt bikes ripping around (no bikes allowed out here), and a group of people pointing at a bobcat in the woods. Because I was on this weird scavenger hunt run tonight, I ran a lot faster than I think I would have. So many distractions. I went running to sort out some stuff, and I never got to think about those things.
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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. I'm trying to level out the extra effort for the last mile, instead of having it loaded to the end. 74 degrees, 73% hum., 60 d.p.,but overcast, so it felt better than the temps say.
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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. Some extra effort for the last mile, but not as much as yesterday. 79 degrees, 51% hum., 59 d.p.
I talked to my neighbor for a while at halfway. He was out walking. He sold his house, so I guess he wont be my neighbor much longer. He's a good dude. He has hosted the neighborhood superbowl party for the last eleventy years.
My brother is trying to get me to go with him to Tahoe next weekend. He says the west coast is supposed to get blasted with snow this week. I love snowboarding, but I can't make that happen.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 on the trails after church. It was a pretty good sermon this week. After the run, a guy stopped me on pinebrook road and asked me what the dead animal was, that the vultures were eating. I told him it was an opossum. He said he has never seen one of those before. I told him I have seen more dead ones than living ones.
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| 3 on the trails after driving back from fort Lauderdale. My niece had a ballet recital. It was really impressive. The run was miserable though. I wasn't feeling it, and a drone enthusiast thought it would be neat to follow me with his drone. | |
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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. No extra effort for the last mile. 80 degrees, 54% hum., 60 d.p.
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| 3 on the trails before sunset after a very long day. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.65 | 0.00 | 6.65 |
| 5 pm run. Venetian Waterway Park plus a new thing. At the finish ofthe 5 mile loop, I continued tothe north, went under the north bridge, went over the north bridge over the intracoastal, back under the north bridge, back over the north bridge over the intracoastal, back to the start point. That's only 1.65 of a new thing. But that's way more climbing than I am used to. 72 deg, 81% hum., 65 d.p. I feel like that was a pretty good run, where Iwas pushing paces at times.
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| 10 miles on Venetian Waterway Park. Finished after dark. 5 pm start. I felt like running longer. It's been a stressful week.
About a mile into the run I felt the need to pee. Knowing that there is usually no one around at the turn around near the Marina, at 2.5 miles, I figured I would wait until then. As I got to the turn around, there were people sitting on a bench. When I saw them I smiled and said "I was kind of hoping there would be no one here." They asked why and I told them. They said "Go ahead!" She said "I might join you!" which got a laugh out of me. We got to talking.
Alan and Annie. Both of them were wearing tie dye shirts, she had pink - cotton candy looking - hair. Lots of it. He was wearing a colorful hat and shoes. Very friendly folks. They were in their late sixties, maybe early seventies. She said "Do you want to see my pet turtle? I take him for a walk every day." In her lap was a small box turtle. "You guys are some kind of different, huh?" They asked me how long I lived here, and I gave them my Venice backstory. Since we could see the Circus bridge from where we were, I told them about the whole town turning out to watch Ringling Brothers bring the animals over the bridge to the winter headquarters, when I was young. He told me that's part of the reason they retired here. He was a puppeteer for children. He went to a show with 500 kids, realized he forgot his puppets, and started blowing up balloons. From that day on, he created a show with balloons, that his wife performed in, dressed as as an insect, for some reason. They toured the world doing this balloon show for children. This was their only job for their entire lives. They have an adult son. When they got to Venice, they saw the circus stuff, and decided this place was a good fit.
I was completely fascinated by this couple and their story. I talked to them for about 30 minutes, but I could have talked to them all night. They spoke every sentence in a non-threatening sing song voice. It was completely obvious, in hindsight, that they have spent their entire lives talking to children. I'm still smiling thinking about this.
THEY RETIRED FROM A CAREER OF BLOWING UP BALLOONS!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.65 | 0.00 | 6.65 |
| 5 pm run. Venetian Waterway Park plus. Same deal as Thursday. 67 deg, 94% hum., 65 d.p. I'm Really starting to like this run. No tie dye - pink haired - balloon performers today.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.65 | 0.00 | 6.65 |
| 1 pm run. Venetian Waterway Park plus. Much faster today. 67 deg, 78% hum., 57 d.p. Overcast and very windy.
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| 3 on the trails. then I ran out of light.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.65 | 0.00 | 6.65 |
| 5:30 pm run. Venetian Waterway Park plus North Bridge. 52 deg.
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| 4 miles. Hood Route plus SMH. 36 degrees. I wish I had a sauna.
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| 28 of us left. I'm freaking out a little bit.
10 miles on Venetian waterway Park at lunch. Mid 70's degrees, I'm guessing.
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| 3 on the trails plus (4) x 100m at extra effort + jog back at soccer field on first 2 laps. 80 deg., 69% hum., 69 d.p.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| 11 miles - Venetian Waterway Park West. Starting at the Circus Bridge, North to under, over, under, and over the North Bridge. South to Caspersen Beach and back to the Circus Bridge. Overcast and slightly raining until the last 3 miles. I'm pretty sore from this one.
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| 10 miles on West Venetian Waterway Park at noon. Beautiful day. Lots of boats on the water. Downtown craft festival. Etc. Etc.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 miles. Hood Route to SMH extra and back. 5 am start. I had to run early to make it happen today.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 280.10 | 0.00 | 280.10 |
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