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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.

Other: 

Logged (on computer) 24,901 miles (circumference of the earth) in 5,744 days (11/20/25)

Short-Term Running Goals:

2026 GOALS:

to stop being a chicken, and run a race

La Crosse WI Marathon. May 2, 2026

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)

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

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Miles:This week: 18.20 Month: 63.15 Year: 541.95
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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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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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1 pm run. Venetian Waterway Park plus North Bridge. 81 deg., 57% hum., 65 d.p. Love Bugs are back. 

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5 miles on West Venetian Waterway Park. At noon. Steady Cruising, but I still pulled the plug early on the run.

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2 on the trails plus (4) x 100m at extra effort + jog back at soccer field on each lap. 

I lost WAY too much time catching up with an old neighbor that I haven't seen in 5 years. 

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200 yard run fail. I went out to run on Venetian Waterway Park. 87 degrees, nice breeze. I got @ 200 yards down the path, when I got sick of fighting it. I'm guessing the cause of this is my recent taking to ice cream at night. I haven't had a beer since 1/17, but I have had LOTS of ice cream, which I didn't used to eat at all. 

Whatever the cause, I have run every day since 1/24. What's that? 38 days? Not a bad streak. Maybe I'll go out again later, and try to put "something" up on the scoreboard for today. Or maybe I'll do the usual routine for me. Which is, fix today's run fail with something tomorrow that is way beyond my present day abilities. 

update: I got 3 miles on the trails right before sunset. I think part of the problem earlier was I went out to run at 12:30 after eating nothing all day.

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10 miles on West Venetian Waterway Park at noon. 87 degrees and hot breeze. It was a fight, but I finished it. 

The Sharkstooth 10k was this morning. I really should have raced it. I know I'm not ready, but I have to find out what my present day paces are, if I'm ever going to plan on a race again. It's been too long. I checked the finish times. 10 years ago me would have got top 10 finish. Yeah it's a weak field around here. But I have no idea what present day me would get. 

I've had my eye on a 5k I haven't run before in 2 weeks. It's just so hard to get motivated to run fast. I feel like I've got to the point that I can make myself run, and sometimes enjoy it, all the time. But when I get to the days I'm supposed to go "fast", I wimp out and would rather live in a fantasy world where I'm capable of getting 5ks or 10ks like I did 10 years ago. I'm trying to push the pace on a regular basis, but on those days, I somehow change my mind about the run goal. 

Monday will be 1 year since Pop passed. We are all going to Sarasota National Cemetary tomorrow. It really doesn't seem like a year.  

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