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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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Miles:This week: 17.50 Month: 51.70 Year: 773.95
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60.150.0060.15
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
16.250.0016.25

16.25 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail to circus bridge and back. 5:40 am start. 8:56 pace. Last 2 in 7:35, 7:28.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.500.007.50

7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. 6 am start. Last mile in 6:58.

After a while of crossing streets in the dark, you start to only look for headlights. If you don't see headlights, you go. Which is fine until a driver is on the road without headlights. I came really close to getting flattened this morning. And i could be really mad at the driver of the truck that nearly got me. But I'm mostly mad at myself for losing that cautious edge, and not double checking for cars. I'm still a bit freaked out.

Let's be careful out there, people.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.500.007.50

7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. 5:45 am start. 8:20 pace. 6:48 last mile. 8:55 first mile. Faster than yesterday, even with the additional checking for cars.

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13.500.0013.50

7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. 6 a.m. start. Slooooow. Like, jogging, only slower.

6:30 pm: slow guy at the track. 1.5 up. 1200 @ 4:56. 400 easy. 1200 @ 5:00. 400 easy. 800 @ 3:24 (failed 1200). 400 easy. (4) x 100 @<17 with Johnny. 1.5 down. Then threw the frisbee with boy #2. I wanted 6-7 1200s, but I didn't have the juice. I knew it was going to be bad, but I'm glad I went through with it. I needed something other than "easy" running.

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7.500.007.50

7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. A bit of fog this morning.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.900.007.90

7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. 5:40 am start. Then once around the block when I got home. 0.4 miles. Because i wasn't going to have 59.xx miles this week.

away game in Estero timorrow. That's 1.5 hours from here! So no running tomorrow. Then I hope to get 20 on Sunday. But recently, life is getting in the way of running. It has to happen sometime. Might as well be sunday.

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60.150.0060.15
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