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Location:

St. Petersburg,FL,

Member Since:

Dec 30, 2014

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

5k - 3/8/14 - Armadillo Run - 15:58
10k - 2/7/15 - BDR, Safety Harbor - 33:17
15k - 2/21/15 - Gasparilla - 51:05
1/2 - 12/14/14 - Holiday Halfathon - 1:13:31
Marathon - 10/04/15 - Twin Cities - 2:38:46

Short-Term Running Goals:

2016 Races

Clearwater Halfathon - Jan 11
Donna Hicken Marathon - Feb 14
Gasparilla 15k - Feb 20
Florida Beach Halfathon - Mar 6
??? Chicago Marathon ???

Long-Term Running Goals:

Find balance. Run with my girls. Break 15 in the 5k.

Personal:

Born in 1973 in Southern California.

Ran in high school for Arcadia. They have a famous cross-country team now. In my day, we were famous for dodging our coach during runs.

Over the next 15 years I ran very little, but life was awesome. I lived mostly in Northern California, where I met my wife. We moved back to her native state of Florida in 2005, where I gradually started running more seriously.

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Tue, Mar 31, 2015

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
2.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.00

AM: 2 miles.

A cursed day. My wife got stuck early, meeting a running friend, when her car battery died. I was late to work.

At the office, I picked a fight with the network team that was unpleasant but needed. Meanwhile, we're putting an offer in on a house we can barely afford. I am trying to manage contractors making our house (hopefully) saleable. I feel both stressed and remote.

Out of work late. An accident on the bridge heading into St. Pete brought traffic to a crawl, so I had to bail on the plan of mile repeats with Lee and Mike.

Time to go to sleep.

Comments

From Mike on Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 18:57:19 from 65.34.80.35

We missed you there! Sorry to hear about those stressors. Good news is that the day is over, and tomorrow is indeed a new day. Wake up early and get those frustrations out on your run. Or go and fight crime. That works too. But it will mean some pretty late nights... And spandex.

From Bret on Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 23:47:53 from 202.45.10.20

Sorry about the rough day Drew.

There was a story in the local paper here in India about a guy doing a test run 10k for military service who ran 33 mins. He is from some remote village. The papers said this was close to the India national record. So ... you could be a national phenom if you relocated here with your 10k PR.

From Derunzo on Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 17:13:34 from 73.218.33.75

I pity the fool!

From Drew on Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 17:58:28 from 24.92.19.68

Mike - some people can swing spandex, but I'm not one of them. I tried doing extra reps on the swing set in 5th grade, when I realized I was a stick, but it didn't make a difference.

Bret - thanks for the positivity. It made my day better.

D RUN Z - Nice. I will counter with:

"This country want to keep me down. Keep everybody weak. They don't want me to have the title because I'm not a puppet like that fool up there."

If that isn't life-affirming, I don't know what is...

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