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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, Jun 28, 2010
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.000.007.00

Ran 7 miles on the treadmill after work. The first 3 miles were rough, then as I loosened up it got easier.

Lifted a few weights, mostly inclined bench dumbells. Worked my way up from 20 - 50 pounds each, with reps of 5 each. I managed one rep of the 50s. (I hope to look back at this in a few months and see some massive improvement). Going to make weights a regular part of my workouts going forward (I hope).

AP; 8:15

Speedstar 4 Miles: 7.00
Weight: 189.00
Comments
From Kathie on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:47:51 from 63.248.105.188

Are you going for the Mr. America look now?

From DonGardinero on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:45:06 from 75.162.188.133

Hey Marc, that's what I'm doing too. So far so good.

Sometimes I hate how long it takes to get warmed up for the runs. The first mile always seems to take forever.

From DonGardinero on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:46:07 from 75.162.188.133

I'm going to follow in Rhett's footsteps and try running three quality runs per week and a full body workout on the off days.

From MarcE on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 14:05:37 from 129.188.33.26

Kathie - I'm just following in your footsteps. All that cross-training, and your ability to just keep getting faster has inspired me!

Dale - I'll stick to the every-other-day routine (if it works out that way). I enjoy the rest day in between. When I do run, I'll try to make them quality runs (either longer distance, or faster), to bring me back to top marathon form.

From DonGardinero on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 14:53:40 from 75.162.188.133

Marc....I'm following the same plan. It obviously didn't do me any good running five days per week without much weight training. I was always so worn out from so much running that I never had enough energy to do speed work. Monday's I'm going to do hill work, Wed's. will be tempo or speed intervals and Fridays will be my long run.

From MrsFIT on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 15:39:54 from 98.202.0.57

Remember....LIGHTER weight, HIGHER reps!!

From MarcE on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 23:01:06 from 204.16.82.120

Thanks, Kristi!

From RivertonPaul on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:43:24 from 67.42.27.114

Good to be fit overall.

From MarcE on Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 00:41:44 from 204.16.82.120

RP - I wouldn't know. The thought of lifting weights, just to lift weights is new to me. I usually get me cross training doing yard work.

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