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Location:

Springtown,TX,USA

Member Since:

Feb 02, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Firsts:

  • First marathon - White Rock, Dallas, December 2005 (4:01)
  • First BQ - St George, 2007 (3:20)
  • First Boston - 2008 (3:30)
  • 1st Place Clydesdale - Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon - 4/2007
  • 1st Place Ultracentric 6-Hour Champ 2007 - 38.75 miles
  • 1st Time Leading Pace Group, Cowtown '09 (3:39:41)
  • 1st Place Overall, Porcupine Promenade 5K (20:10) - 4/2011
  • 1st Trail Race. Grasslands Half Marathon. 1st Overall Masters (1:53) - 3/2013
  • Leadville LT100 MTB '16 - on a mountain bike, but the toughest challenge, so far!

Marathons Run (27):

  • Dallas White Rock ('05, '07,'09,'14)
  • Chicago ('06, '08)
  • OK City Memorial ('07)
  • St George ('07,'09,'11)
  • Waco Miracle Match ('07)
  • Ft Worth, Cowtown ('08, '09,'10,'11,'12,'13,'15**)
  • Boston ('08 '09*, '10, '13)
  • Park City ('08)
  • San Antonio Rock 'n Roll ('08)
  • Steamboat ('09)
  • Utah Valley ('10)
  • Houston ('12)

  • * - PR

Ultras (3):

  • Ultracentric 6-Hours ('07 - 38.75 mi)
  • El Scorcho 50K, Ft Worth (('08, '09)

PRs:

  • 5K - 19:27 (6/2008)
  • 10K - 41:49 (5/2008)
  • 15K - 1:04:14 (9/2011)
  • Half Marathon - 1:33:12 (1/2011)
  • Marathon - 3:19:47 (Boston 4/2009)
  • 50K - 4:35:53 (7/2008)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Keep injury-free.

2016 Races

Ft Worth Cowtown Half Marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Be age-group competitive for many years!

Have fun running!

Make some great friends along the way!

Personal:

Married to the same wonderful woman since March 1988. 3 adorable kids.

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Asic Nimbus 8 Lifetime Miles: 502.00
VFF Trek Lifetime Miles: 98.10
Kohls Asics Lifetime Miles: 234.74
Asic Trailshoes Lifetime Miles: 82.36
Nike Air Lifetime Miles: 10.00
Saucony Lifetime Miles: 508.16
Brooks Ravena Lifetime Miles: 117.75
Asic (orange) Lifetime Miles: 83.75
Mon, Jan 24, 2011
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.001.5010.50

I took another "use or lose it" vacation day today. My wife droppe me off a Lake Weatherford while she went to a massage appointment. That gave me about 75 minutes to run before she'd be back to pick me up.

The weather was great. about 45, sunny, little wind when I started my run aroun 12:30pm.

I finished 1 lap around the lake and got about 1/2 mile into the next lap when she picked me up (1 lap is about 8 miles).

We ran some errands, then picke the boys up from basketball practice. I had her drop me off 2 miles from home so I could get in at least 10 miles for the day. I ran these last 2 at about 7:20/mi pace--quite a bit quicker than my leisurely pace around the lake.

AP: 7:50

45F, sunny, 5MPH

Asic Speedstar -ES09 Miles: 10.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Maynard on Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 22:31:17 from 71.213.31.156

Two things I aspire to be like you with.

1. Use it or lose it vacation days. I'd like to be at that point.

2. To be fast like you.

Nice job Marc!

From MarcE on Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 23:58:47 from 204.16.82.120

Thanks, Maynard - I need to remind myself of how fortunate I am to have been employed with the same company for almost 20 years...with good benefits (and a fixed number of vacation days and sick days each year -- every Jan 31st our PTO (Personal Time Off) gets set back to 40 hours -- so if we don't use them, we lose them. As far as being fast like me, if I were you I'd aspire to be fast like Rhett or Tim or Andy...or ... :)

From DonGardinero on Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 00:53:02 from 152.216.3.5

Nice runs.

Yes, good benefits are awesome. Here at work we can build our leave up to 240 hours and anything over we have to use before the end of the year or we lose the extra hours. Luckily they don't reset it back to 40 hours.

From Rhett on Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:32:53 from 74.32.222.21

I wish someone was forcing me to take vacation days. Sounds like a fun day.

From Tom Slick on Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 23:03:30 from 69.171.160.112

I love use it or lose it time. I took off all of December and the first week of January with my UIoLI time. The time off was great and I really put a kick into my training for 2011...Probably the reason I'm feeling so ready for the Cowtown!

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