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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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Nike Air Lifetime Miles: 10.00
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Asic (orange) Lifetime Miles: 83.75
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
23.804.5028.30
Asic Speedstar -ES09 Miles: 28.30
Weight: 189.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.000.0010.00

Alarm went off at 5:30...I woke and shut it off, and decided to snooze for a few minutes. Got out of bed at 6:45. Out the door by 7:00. It was 72F, 70% humidity. I decided to run on Hwy 199 (65 MPH, 2-lane highway). The shoulder is wide, and there's lots of long hills. 

I originally had the idea of getting in 15-20 miles. But, after the first few sweaty miles, I was going to be happy to get in 10. The humidity was kickin' my butt...again. 

Got in some good SGM training. This was the longest run I've had since El Scorcho 50K two weeks ago...I think it's wise to build back up to 20+ milers. I'll have to get in my next long run sometime during this week, as we'll be driving to Illinois over the weekend. I plan to run along the Chicago lakefront next week while visiting my family.

AP: 9:20 (some walking)

Asic Speedstar -ES09 Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(5)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.502.507.00

The alarm went off at 5:30...I was in the middle of a dream, I'm sure that thing was going off for a few minutes before I shut it off, rolled over and thought to myself..."Self, you better get yer lazy butt out of bed..or you'll have the wrath of Teena and Kathie to face". So I got up..got my stuff together and headed into work to meet Eric and Jo.

It was already 80 degrees at 7:00AM. I got there early so I jogged a nice warmup mile. I saw that  Jo texted that she was "Too tired". So it was Eric and me. Jogged (8:00/mi) over to the track and ran 5 x 800m repeats (with 200m walk between), then jogged back.

3:07, 3:12, 3:11, 3:13, 2:56

Eric was consistently around 3:04 per 800 -- but, I just had to go sub 3:00 on the last one. We both think we were faster a year ago.

Have a great day!


 

Asic Speedstar -ES09 Miles: 7.00
Weight: 189.00
Comments(8)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.302.0011.30

Woke up at about 4:45 (15 minutes earlier than my alarm was schedule to go off). Drove into work...in the dark. Wow..no traffic. I could get used to that.

Ran 6 times around the Motorola plant (6 miles) before meeting Jo and Eric for our Thursday hill workout at 7:15. Jogged over to "the hill" and ran 8 repeats. Run up, walk..then jog down.(The hill is about 0.15 miles at about 6% grad...it takes between 45 and 60 seconds to run up. Not that big..but we'll take it.)

AP: 9:00

80F, no noticeable wind.

 

Asic Speedstar -ES09 Miles: 11.30
Weight: 189.00
Comments(11)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
23.804.5028.30
Asic Speedstar -ES09 Miles: 28.30
Weight: 189.00
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