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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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Lunch: 10 miles. Met up with Quint, Josh and Christina at Northshore Pool. Coach gave us a good plan: 4 mile tempo, commit to a pace, and start accordingly to finish together. Josh started off early since he was looking to run easy. Christina signed up for 6:30 pace, Quint for 6:15, and I was aiming for 5:45. Christina started, Quint one minute later, then 2 minutes later I took off.

The competitive angle on the workout really helped us today. We hooked around the Pier, and although my first mile was 5:42, I saw I had only gained about 10 seconds on Quint!! I managed to catch him at 3.75. Splits were 5:42, 5:38, 5:32, 5:25. Considering we ran this at noon, this was a very good workout for me, the first in awhile.

Comments
From Bret on Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 13:36:38 from 216.234.133.229

Very nice. I remember doing a workout like this in high school. We started on the end of the Dunedin Causeway - and began staggered just as you described. The goal of finishing together at the end on the mainland.

Bet it was on the warm-side at noon today.

From Drew on Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:06:51 from 24.73.66.122

Yeah! It really seemed to work out well for everyone. It was warm, but luckily the humidity rolled back for the day, so it wasn't too bad.

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