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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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
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

Sun, Apr 05, 2009

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
10.50	0.00	10.50

Saturday was a beautiful day for running, but it was also a great day for my boys' soccer and baseball games. We also planted our garden (about 20 tomato plants, a couple eggplant plants, and about 8 pepper plants. It was about 80 degrees and not too windy). I decided to take a rest day on Saturday, and planned to get up early on Sunday and go for a 13.1 miler at marathon pace.

Well, that was the plan. I woke up to the sound of the wind through the trees, and my roof creaking a little bit. 25+ MPH wind. I decided to crawl back in bed and try again a little later.

I don't think the wind improved any by 2:00PM, so I had to just go and run. If you watched any of the PGA in Houston, we had similar winds out by me. 25 MPH, w/ gusts to 40MPH. I ended up running 10.5 miles..about 20 seconds shy of my MP goal. It really stinks running into a 25 MPH headwind. I can't remember it being so windy for so many weeks on end around here. Is this El Nino, or La Nina, or what??? Sounds like it is windy out in Utah, too.

Well, I sort of got in my run. It wasn't that long, but I had a few good miles in there, and I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY hope this is no headwind at Boston this year.

AP: 7:57

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Kelli on Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 21:43:44 from 71.219.95.20

10.5 is long, you beat my mileage for the entire week in one afternoon!!! Sorry about the wind, but at least you had an enjoyable day with your family yesterday. All of our soccer games were canceled---the first game of the season. My poor kids cried, really!

I hereby grant you a nap day!!!

From Smooth on Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 23:19:19 from 71.36.85.29

GOOD JOB growing your own veggies. Once you've tasted a home grown tomato, you never want to eat a store bought one. WAY to conquer that wind and got your 10.5 in. It's taper time, enjoy!

From Rhett on Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 23:57:37 from 216.67.216.116

Nice garden! Sounds like some serious work. Can I come over for dinner when its all being harvested? All this bad weather everywhere is for the birds. You all just need to come out to Havasu next year for our Half Marathon where the weather is great.

From DonGardinero on Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 00:04:19 from 75.162.165.30

Great job getting out there in the wind, Marc. Yeah, what is up with all this wind? It never ends. Saturday it was blowing out of the north and today it was coming out of the south. There was still a chill to the air, but nothing like yesterday. I got a little wind burn on my face, neck and legs from the race yesterday.

From Timp on Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:31:40 from 136.182.2.25

Now we have that wind today too. 40MPH gusts -- that is just miserable.

From MarcE on Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 12:59:48 from 206.225.68.108

I plant a garden every year. I think this is the latest I've waited to get the stuff planted. We're supposed to get a freeze tonight :(. Time to get out the tarps and cover up those little plants..hopefully they'll survive, or else I'll have to get some more plants and try again. I love fresh veggies from the Garden. Sure, Rhett, anytime, come on out.

At least my 40MPH gusts were in temperatures of 50+ degrees. It would have been much worse had it been colder...in which case, yesterday would have been a rest day. :)

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