| 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)
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* - 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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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 148.80 | 25.20 | 174.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Mountain bike riding with my 9 and 10 yearold boys. A great way to start the New Year!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 2.50 | 0.00 | 2.50 |
| My first run of the new year! (on a treadmill) Time to really get serious about exercise, again. This time...for real!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| jogged/walked before church. Feeling like a total beginner. What happened to me? feeling old and fat.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| jogged/walked during lunchtime around the farm. Going to get good at running single track. Starting to get back on track, I hope.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Ran during lunch. Now that I'm working from home most of the time, I need to come up with a good running trail. I have a 1/2 mile loop that has some good hills. I ran the first mile without walking. Need new batteries for our bathroom scale, so I can tell how much I weigh! (The "before" weight") I think I'm about 205 -- as all of my jeans are too tight!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Was going to run 3 miles at lunch...but GPS died, so I bagged it.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Finally fixed the bathroom scale. Ouch!!!!
Will increase mileage gradually. Too heavy to accelerate too quickly.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| 13 miles mountain bike ride in 1:30. Great day for a bike ride with Curtis and Darin.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Too much work to do around the house. Painted my office. Graduation party. Rest day.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Four miles before church. slight "pinch" on right interior upper calf.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 easy miles at lunchtime. Sunny, breezy, 60f. Felt OK...not great...just OK. getting it back, slowly.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.30 | 0.00 | 5.30 |
| Trail run w/ Darin and Jack
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Signed up for SGM lottery
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.50 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| 17 roadbike miles
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| 19 road bike miles
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 trail miles. Rolled my left ankle at about 2 mile mark...slowed a bit and finished 5. Swollen today. With RICE it.
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| Bowling w/ youngest. Ankle is doing much better.
Also had anual physical this morning..doctor said ankle doesn't look to bad -- RICE it. Everything else checked out OK. Dr said to keep doing what I'm doing.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Turned my ankle at mile 2. Finished 5 total -- but ankle was swollen pretty bad.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| Burleson Honey Tour - 65-mile road bike ride.
avg 18.4 mph on Trek 5500
Great day for a bike ride (my longest this year)
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| My first run since rolling my ankle. Went to the track this evening. Did 3 x 1mile with 1 lap walk between miles. Felt pretty good. Forgot my HRM.
7:56, 7:11, 7:06 (Garmin was way off -- had about 1/4 lap to go when mile elapsed each time)
Was surprised to weigh-in tonight at 194.8 -- thought I would have gained weight with all that I ate yesterday
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| Ran 20. Felt good.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 3.00 | 5.00 |
| Morning Track workout. Then 11 mountain bike miles with my 11 year-old son, Ethan in the evening. Getting ready for MTB races this weekend.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 9.00 | 9.00 |
| 18 fast mountain bike miles. Bike is ready for this weekend's race.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
| 30 miles on road bike. Avg 20 mph. Then 3 miles running at 8:10/mi.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
| Spent the day with my two boys at a Mountain Bike Race. Ethan (11) and Christian(10) rode their respective races in the morning, while I took pictures and videos. I rode about 10 miles of warmup trails awaiting my 12:30 CAT 2 race start. I love riding trails. It's currently my favorite hobby -- my bike is mediocre at best (2012 Trek Mamba). I was in the first row at the start - which consisted of a paved 1/4 mile sprint to the trail -- then a funnel into the woods. I was about 8th going into the woods. Lots of dust on the trail as it hadn't rained for quite some time. It was also about 95 degrees. My race consisted of 2 x 8 mile loops -- I fell about 4 or 5 times on the first lap, as I stuck to the group in front of me waiting to my turn for a good place to pass - only to be forced off the trail when someone stopped climbing a hill. The second lap was much better - a lot less traffic. I placed about 14th out of 22. Not great, but these were some of the best riders in the areas. My lap times were 50:00 and 45:00. Had a great time with the boys, and am looking forward to doing some more bike racing once SGM is behind me!
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SGM 2014 (26.2 Miles) 03:45:36 | | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 13.20 | 26.20 |
| Earlier this year, I thought my marathon days were over. My last full marathon was on April 15, 2013, in Boston, finishing about 20 minutes before the bombs detonated. I thought that was it. My last. I just didn't have the drive and time to commit to running them well, and really didn't have anything more to prove. At least, so I thought...
In April, my buddy Rick Hobbs said that he was thinking of entering the SGM lottery. SGM has always been my favorite, for many reasons. My first BQ (3:20:02 in 2007), awesome scenery, fresh dry air, and the many friends I've made through the various blogs and forums. So, I decided to throw my name in the hat with Rick -- and I also decided to ask my buddy, Dave Chase to give it a shot (as he is the fastest runner I know who has never BQed, I thought the odds were in his favor at SGM). Long story short, the three of us got in.
Flew in to Vegas on Thursday. Rented a car then drove the 2 hours to St George. Quite the contrast of locales! Checked in to St George Inn and Suites, then gave Dave anRick the tour of the martathon route.
Friday morning we went to the Expo to pick up our packets and wander the aisles looking for bargains. I kept looking for friends of mine who I hoped would be at the marathon this year, but didn't see any. It's been 3 years since I've run SGM (2007, 2009, 2011) and our old "forumflyers" blog site has gone defunct.
After the expo, we got a quick lunch at the Black Bear and then headed to Zion National Park. It's only about 40 minutes from SG, and well worth the trip. We drove most of the park route through the tunnel and back. Hiked a little on the smooth trails and took lots of pictures.
I talked Dave and Rick into going to the spaghetti dinner at the Expo center -- because it was quick, predictable, and all-you-can eat! Once again I had hoped to run into some old buddies, but none were to be found. The spaghetti dinner was exactly how I had remembered it from 2011. Was in bed by 8:00pm for a 3:30 wakeup.
Saturday morning caught the shuttle from the hotel to the buses at about 4:15am. Rode to the starting line where much to our surprise it was a bit windy and chilly. Got a space blanket and some free gloves they were handing out and headed to the fires. It is usually a bit chilly at the start, so they have many piles of firewood that they light as people arrive before the start. Once again I looked around for my buddies in the dark. Just before the start I heard my name. It was Kathie and Kim who I have known for quite some time -- Kathie has run the Boston marathon a few time. It was good to see some old friends. The race started at about 7:00AM, as the sun was just starting to make its way over the horizon off to our west.
The weather was perfect. We even had a tail wind of about 15MPH. I ran what I thought was a comfortable pace for the first few miles. Even though I had only one 20 mile run during my training, I hoped that all of the cycling I had done this summer would help me finish strong.
I was shooting for anything under 3:30 (my Boston Qualifying time). I was actually on pace for the first 20 miles, when my the soreness in my legs got unbareable. I had to take frequent walk breaks. I was adequately hydrated, didn't have any cramping, but I was sore!
I finished in 3:45:36 - with the last couple miles averaging over 10:00/mi. (My slowest of 4 SGMs, and 4th slowest of the 26 marathons I've completed)
got to the park and looked for Dave -- I never saw him on the course, so I assumed he was ahead of me. I waited by the fence for the finsihers. Eventually, Rick came through (in about 4:15). He said Dave had achilles issues and was walking. Dave eventually finished in about 4:45.
I was sore, am still store 2 days later as I write this. SGM is still my favorite marathon -- I missed seeing some of my old friends, one of the reasons that makes this a great destination for me. I'm now thinking seriously about Bqing for 2016. Rick already told me that he's signing up for the Utah Valley Marathon in June. If I haven't BQed by then, I'll probably go out there with him -- and perhaps my family, like I did back in 2010.
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Woohoo! I made the Spectrum website.
http://www.thespectrum.com/picture-gallery/sports/outdoors/2014/10/04/st-george-marathon---course-gallery-1---oct-4-2014/16728471/
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 148.80 | 25.20 | 174.00 |
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