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Location:

Bloomsburg,PA,USA

Member Since:

Sep 02, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

Half Marathon: 1:34

Honestly, I need to get my PR's compiled.  This is something I started a year ago and then lost my file.  I have them on my old computer but need to dig them out.  There is still more I need to find.

Short-Term Running Goals:

February 1st: Frosty 5k
February 22nd: Run for the Cookies
April 6th: Scranton Half Marathon (with Wes)
July 19th: New York Giants Run of Champions
October: Gettysburg Half Marathon

On top of some races, need to lose some weight to get to a good competition weight and also need to get rid of all my injuries.  I would also like to drop my times

This year I would also like to hit 1000 miles during the year.

Long-Term Running Goals:

I think that eventually I would like to qualify for Boston.  That is something that weighs on me but not as bad as not completing a marathon.  Think I will take the approach of trying to complete a marathon within the next 3 years and then we will see after that.

I also want to keep dropping my times and stay competitive in age groups and get competitive overall.

Personal:

I am 29 years old, soon to be 30 and I have the best most supportive wife (Courtney) and we just had our first child (Isaac) in December.  I ran track most of high school and one year of Cross Country.  I then went to college where I ran for a year on the college team.  Since then I have been trying to get myself back on track with my running, I run more days then not but I have not been able to have one year without some type of injury.  I would really like to get back to being injury free and a competitive runner.

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Saucony Guide Lifetime Miles: 219.06
Gel-Neo33 2 Lifetime Miles: 20.44
Cortana 3 Lifetime Miles: 46.88
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Saucony Guide Miles: 12.00
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Saucony Guide Miles: 3.00
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Not a great run, but I did it.  Yesterday was a fast run, I had to fast, had a terrible eating day and then had bowling tonight.  The best part about the run was taking the puppy out with me.

 

Round two of the blog tonight:  I was hoping for that June 13th marathon but I went to check it tonight and it was full.  I really wanted to wait until after this weekends 20 miler.  My plans for the rest of the year were to run a few more half marathons and the warrior run.  Now I am not sure what I need to do, I checked a bunch of marathon calendars and they are either inconvenient or later in the year which would mess around with my other plans.  I am just not sure what I want to do yet.  This year I was planning on getting a 5k under 20:00, run a marathon, get a few half marathons, put down a good time in the run for the diamonds and have a good time with the Warrior Dash.  Guess I need to sleep on it and try to decide how to proceed (really didn't need any more crap this week). 

Saucony Guide Miles: 3.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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6.00

So I made the decision to run 2 5k's on June 5th and one on June 12th.  So today I started with the end of some plan I found on the net.  The next two weeks will be seeing lots and lots of speed.  Today I ran the 6.04 miles in 43:50 (7:15 pace).  So I imagine that a 5k should be a little faster, hoping that the speed workouts will help me get below 20:00 minutes in at least one of these 5k's.

Saucony Guide Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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17.00
Saucony Guide Miles: 12.00
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