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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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Mon, Jul 06, 2015
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.000.000.000.0016.00

AM: 10 miles. A beautiful morning outside, Elise rode with me for the last 4.

PM: 6 miles.

We had an epic drive back from Jacksonville to St. Petersburg yesterday afternoon. It's about a 4 hour drive. Half an hour in, the AC stopped working and the engine temperature quickly pegged out. The coolant tank was emtpy - maybe a leak - but really we had no choice but to get home and deal with it from there.

To keep the engine from exploding, we had to drive the remaining 3.5 hours with the heat all the way up. As you might imagine, driving across Florida in July with the heat blasting is not a good time. Windows rolled down to avoid suffocating, then we drove through a lighting storm and pouring rain.

Today we found out there is a crack in the engine block. On the positive side, this apparently afflicts Civics bought around 2006 and the engine will be replaced for free.


 

Comments
From jtshad on Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 08:26:12 from 141.221.191.225

Wow, what a terrible drive. Glad to hear it is an issue that is under warranty/recall so you are not stuck paying for it.

From Bret on Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 08:32:15 from 216.234.133.229

Free engine - nice! Had to be miserable enduring the drive in the heat though - glad yo made it back safely.

From Drew on Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 08:41:24 from 173.171.218.92

I think my wife wanted to torture me, because first she told me the engine block cracked, paused, then told me it was under warranty.

It was a lousy drive, but it's funny how those experiences become comical family stories pretty quickly.

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