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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
Thu, Apr 26, 2012
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

Ran/walked lunchtime w/ Mike and Darin. HR is way too high. Finished at about a jog at 172! I felt very sluggish the whole time, and a little weak after the run (I felt I needed to hold onto the handle in the shower to keep from falling down...not really dizzy, but weak)

Going to stop the BP medicine for a week to see if that is what is affecting my performance.

80F, S10, 62%, sunny

AP: 9:15

 

Asic (orange) Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Smooth on Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 22:18:47 from 174.27.212.157

Oh Marc buddy! I am so sorry to hear about the poison ivy and the elevated heart rate. You worry me! I hope the weak feeling is just a fluke and nothing serious! Are you on beta blocker! I have forgotten that you were taking B/P meds. Please please be careful!

BTW, you were greatly missed on the blog! glad to see you back on here again!

From Tom Slick on Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 18:23:04 from 69.171.160.64

Glad your back....it's time to figure out what's causing that high BP? Have you tried all the conservative stuff? What should your BP be for your age and level of training? Where does 172 beats per min stack up on the chart? Tell me more....

From DaleG on Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 23:09:42 from 71.199.57.238

Glad to see you back on the blog. How did you get poison ivy? That certainly cannot be fun.

I hope you can figure out what is causing you to slow down.

From MarcE on Tue, May 01, 2012 at 12:29:36 from 204.16.82.120

Smooth - nope, not on betablockers. On lisinopril w/ a dieretic. I'm pretty sure the dieretic is dehydrating me, but on the good side, my BP is now at a normal range.:) I cut my dose in half, and will see how that goes. At my dentist appt this morning, it was 112/72 -- I'll take that! (it was 150/80 last time I was there)

Slick - It's complicated. People are shocked when I tell them I have high BP. It's hereditary. You've been blessed with good genes! Exercise is not going to decrease my BP -- I've done lots of that! I should experiment with homeopathic remedies. I try to cut out salt as much as possible. Other than that I eat fairly healthy, and indulge in sweets a few times a week. Not sure what else to do.

Dale - It ended up being Poison Oak. It's kind of a silly story. For Earth Day, I thought it would be cool to dig up some oak sapling from the woods around my yard and transplant them into pots to see if I couldn't grow some larger trees. Well, the oak trees were really Poison Oak. Now I know! It's all cleared up now!

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