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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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Kohls Asics Lifetime Miles: 234.74
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Sun, Aug 08, 2010
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Met Ty at the trailhead at 5PM. The car said 100 degrees on the nose. Rode to the lake, cooled off, then rode back. This week was much easier than last week. I think that with the sun lower in the sky, the distance between shade spots (my friends) was a little less. Didn't seem quite so brutal this week. And there were a few clouds that helped.

Finished reading Dean Karnaze's book. Some pretty cool stuff in there. He's just a little too gung-ho for me and my lifestyle. I probably won't be running a marathon to the south pole, or running a 200 mile Relay by myself anytime soon. :)

I haven't run in over 2 weeks. I think I'll try easing into it again sometime this week.

100F at 5PM

95F at 7:45 when we finished.

 

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Comments
From Teena Marie on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 13:58:28 from 174.52.45.85

You training for Badwater???

Dang, that is hot!!!!

Nice job, Marc! :)

(Yeah, Dean is a little too much for me.)

From Smooth on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 14:28:42 from 174.23.203.161

I read his book last year and thought may be I could do that, NOT!

Hey, nice ride in that temp hot enough to fry an egg!

NICE going, Marc! Have a great week!

From Kathie on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 15:59:21 from 63.248.105.188

Nice ride on a hot day good for you!

From Tom Slick on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:37:21 from 168.179.157.36

I think that the really heavy heat is just about to let up and we can get into some good old fall running temps!!!!

From MarcE on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:56:52 from 204.16.82.120

Teena - Nope, not Badwater...though I'm sure it couldn't be too much worse (except that you need to run on the white lines on the road so the bottoms of your shoes don't melt off)

Smooth - I believe I could have fried an egg out there. What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger, right? :)

Kathie - thanks!

Slick - yep, we should be about ready to cool down soon. We've had 10 straight days of our high temps over 100 -- the normal is 94 for this time of year. I'm ready for the 70s and 80s again. :)

From Rhett on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 16:34:52 from 74.32.211.152

Hang in there, soon those of us who live in hot places get to reap the rewards.

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