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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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AM: 17 miles. My wife got the morning long run slot, so I ran later with Quint around Tierra Verde. Felt good, averaged 7:12.

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AM: 6 miles.

PM: 5 miles with Quint.

Looks like a rocking race at Carlsbad yesterday. Masters winner in 14:58, almost 25 seconds on 2nd place.

My cousin was 10th in 16:16. He wasn't completed satisified, but I think that's an awesome time at 45. I'd probably say the same thing. I guess we're related.

While on the family brag topic, my sister was 2nd female in an LA trail marathon yesterday. Unfortunately, I can't figure out the name of the race (worst brother ever).

Very proud of both of them.

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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.

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AM: Spinning on the treadmill of life, sadly no actual running.

PM: 7 miles a lunch with Quint and Jim.  I entertained the idea of a workout to make up for yesterday, but it was enough to be out there.

When I got back to my car to change into my work clothes, I had messages from my wife and realtor that that our offer was accepted. I'm sure in six months this will be a good thing.

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AM: Chores.

PM: Zero. Quint drove to Tampa to run at lunch. 15 minutes before he showed up, a client called with their environment in flames. I had to bail on him - he went out and ran solo.

A normal person would be at least a little irritated about this. Instead, he offered to help me move boxes into storage on Saturday.  I'm lucky to have a friend like that.

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AM: 14 miles. Christina is a couple weeks out from Boston, so she tried to pull together a group for a long run, since most are occupied this Sunday. It ended up being her, Mike and myself.

I'm not sure how much it helped from a marathon standpoint, but having a couple good friends to blow off steam with definitely helped me.

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AM: 8 miles.

PM: 4 miles. Full day of decluttering and yardwork. Quint brought one of his delivery trucks and helped me move stuff into a Public Storage unit. When we got there, the manager was out for lunch. We both were wearing old running clothes, so we got 4 miles in. It was that or a whole lot of rock-paper-scissors.

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