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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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Gel-Neo33 2 Lifetime Miles: 20.44
Cortana 3 Lifetime Miles: 46.88
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Today was repeat hills, I warmed up with about a half mile, then did about 200 hills, then finished with a half mile cool down.  Helped the calf a little bit, so all in all a pretty good workout. 

The workout helped me get my head a little back together.  Today I spent much of the day thinking about how one decision can have such a huge impact on your life.  For the most part all of the decisions I have made make me feel good except for the whole what do you want to be when you grow up.  I used to tell people I wanted to be a bum because then I would not have to work and I really feel that would be an ideal occupation minus the fact I have bills to pay.  These bills unfortunately are quite necessary if I ever want to have a family (mortgage, school loans, etc..) I just feel like if I would have chosen some other degree or occupation I may in fact be happier.  Since I made the decision to be what I am, I sometimes wish I had the guts to open my own running store since I have some business sense.  The only problem is I have no confidence in myself to be successful and end up bringing in enough money to support my life.  While my life is not so full of expenditures I still buy things and have bills.  What a day!!!

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Well today was 12x400's.  I ran the first 10 in between 1:28-1:30.  I ran the last two in 1:25 and 1:18 respectfully.  Leg bothered me yesterday so I took off and today it felt pretty good.  I more then likely will be taking a rest again tomorrow and then having a nice comfortable long run Saturday.  Temperatures here are high almost 90 or a few degrees higher.  Good thing I like warm weather, it is a shame I don't run as fast in warm weather. 

I think I decided to to get probably 4 5k's completed in June and get my miles up by the end of the month in hopes of having a pretty good time in that half marathon on August 22nd.  I am thinking that I want to get my body in great shape and also get myself injury free.  Time for some reading and researching on what I need to do to get completely injury free and in good shape.

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Trail run.

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