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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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Fri, Jan 15, 2010
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.004.006.00

Ran w/ Darin again today. Got a later start (12:30P). Today Darin wasn't feeling too hot (I think it's because I had him waiting on me..so he ate his lunch). We started slower then picked up the pace. Overall, we ran slower than yesterday, but felt so much better.

AP: 7:28

55F, overcast, NE wind 5-10MPH

Hope to get in a 20 miler on Saturday.

 

Asic Speedstar -ES09 Miles: 6.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Kathie on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 18:55:40 from 63.248.105.188

20 on Saturday sounds great...for you anyway I think I will go for 14 in the smog and hope I don't get sick!

From Smooth on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 19:22:32 from 174.23.217.47

Sounds like a perfect recovery or preparatory run for the 20 miler!!! Have a WONDERFUL weekend!

From MarcE on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 21:30:32 from 206.225.68.76

Kathie -- I'm sorry about your smog out there. You've got that "inversion" thing going. The air in Texas is pretty clean in the winter. (at least there are no ozone alert days in the winter)

Smooth - thanks! You have a great weekend, too! (BTW - I still haven't received my BOM - you can bring it to Boston:)

From Rhett on Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:17:32 from 216.67.211.75

Sounds like you and Darin have a good thing going. Is he a marathoner? What kind of times does he run?

Good luck on the 20 miler. You know your pretty much locked into it, once you call your shot on the blog?

From MarcE on Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 16:19:09 from 206.225.68.154

Rhett - Darin's great guy to run with. He's a couple years older, but about 20 pounds lighter, which ends up putting us fairly well matched. Darin ran 4 marathons in a 6 month period back in 2007-2008 -- culminating in his first and only run at Boston in 2008. Since then he has had knee problems, took off some time, and is now back into running--and is going to run the half marathon at Cowtown at the end of Feb. I'd be hard-pressed to beat him right now...we're as evenly matched as anyone I know..even our strides, cadence, and heart rates are almost identical.

I ended up running 22 miles today-- I had to run to the "one-stop" (gast station, mini mart, restaurant -about 11 mile sway from the trailhead) I'll give details when I log the miles in my blog!

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