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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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Mon, Jul 19, 2010
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.000.007.00

Cross-trained today. 24 miles on my comfort bike (cushy seat, fat tires, 21 speeds) on the trail. It was 95 degrees when I started and 90 when I finished. Filled my 72 oz camel back with ice and water. It was actually not bad at all. Riding a bike in 95 degrees is much, much, much easier and enjoyable than running in 95 degrees.

Achilles is feeling much better after 3 days of no running. Going to give it the rest of the week off. Will cross train a bit this week, and see how El Scorcho goes on Saturday night.

It took about 1:55 to do 24 miles. I'm going to call that the equivalent of running about 7 miles.

Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Smooth on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 00:22:52 from 174.23.244.221

NICE ride! WOW! 95 degrees! GOOD JOB xtraining.

Glad to hear the archilles is better.

GOOD LUCK at El Scorcho!

From Kathie on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 18:11:25 from 63.248.105.188

Nice ride I hope El Scorcho is a good one this year!

From Tom Slick on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:57:35 from 168.179.157.36

Sounds like your doing some smart training.....

From Rhett on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 16:38:33 from 74.32.211.23

So it probabaly would have taken another 10 minutes to do 26.2. That's how fast the world ellite runners do that distance. Kind of mind blowing isn't it?

From RivertonPaul on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 18:42:58 from 67.42.27.114

Nice and comfy.

From DonGardinero on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:22:31 from 152.216.7.5

Marc, good luck on Saturday!!!

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