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August 2016

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Location:

Venice,FL,USA

Member Since:

Oct 31, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

5k:
21:01, (6:46 pace) 11-19-11.
20:08, (6:29 pace) 9-1-12 (Part of a Mini-Triathlon Relay).
19:17, (6:12 pace) 11-17-12.
19:19, (6:13 pace) 11-23-13.
19:30, (6:17 pace) 1-4-14.
20:34, (6:34 pace) 9-13-14
19:49, (6:23 pace) 10-25-14
19:32, (6:17 pace) 11-22-14
19:40, (6:19 pace) 12-19-14
19:49, (6:23 pace) 1-31-16

8k:
34:42, (6:57 pace) 3-17-12.
32:11, (6:28 pace) 3-16-13.
32:32, (6:33 pace) 3-15-14. 

34:00, (6:50 pace) 3-14-15.

33:09, (6:40 pace) 3-11-17.

32:56, (6:38 pace) 3-17-18.

10k:
44:18, (7:08 pace) 4-14-12.
41:22, (6:39 pace) 12-15-12.
42:11, (6:47 pace) 4-13-13.
41:06, (6:37 pace) 12-8-13.

42:03, (6:46 pace) 3-5-16

44:35, (7:11 pace) 8-26-17
12k:
53:53, (7:14 pace) 3-24-12.
49:20, (6:37 pace) 3-1-14
15k:
1:18:16, (8:24 pace) 2-26-11.

1:04:37. (6:56 pace) 2-20-16

1:08:25 (7:18 pace) 2/22/20

Half Marathons:

1:37:57 (7:28 pace) 1-26-20. Fort Lauderdale - A1A 
14 Marathons:
1.  4:12:08, (9:37 pace) 1-9-11. Disney.
2.  4:18:18, (9:51 pace) 10-30-11. MCM.
3.  3:42:26, (8:29 pace) 1-14-12. Charleston.
4.  3:13:15, (7:22 pace) 10-7-12. Steamtown.
5*.  3:12:26, (7:20 pace) 1-19-14. Louisiana.
6*.  3:14:06, (7:24 pace) 4-21-14. Boston.
7*.  3:19:38, (7:37 pace) 7-19-14. U. of Okoboji.
8*.  3:16:27, (7:30 pace) 2-22-15. Mercedes-Benz
9*. 3:30:38 (8:03 pace) 5-15-16 Sugarloaf

10. 3:24:21 (7:48 pace) 11-5-16 Savannah RNR

11. 3:27:37 (7:56 pace) 5-12-18 Brookings

12. 3:46:02 (8:38 pace) 10-7-18 Towpath

13. 3:35:11 (8:13 pace) 9-12-21 Med City

14. 3:45:45 (8:37 pace) 4-16-23 Coastal Delaware

* = These 5 races were run at 67.9 seconds per pound. If I want a PR, I need to weigh less than 170 pounds.

Short-Term Running Goals:

2023 GOALS:

Coastal Delaware Running Festival Marathon - 4/16/23 - Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Long-Term Running Goals:

Continue running as often as I can, as far as I can, as fast as I can. Teaching my kids (by example) the rewards that come from putting in the work. Very slowly get to 50 states.

Personal:

I'm married, with two sons, 17, and 18.

I started running because someone dared me to.

I ran my first race 3 days after my 40th birthday. (Disney)

My profile picture story: http://www.melissajill.com/blog.cfm?postID=1492&boston-marathon

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Miles:This week: 12.50 Month: 83.00 Year: 212.50
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10.2 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail to colonia and back. 6 am start. 80 deg. 89% hum. 77 d.p. I was gonna run 7.5, but then I thought i should go farther.

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10.2 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail to colonia and back.

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5.500.005.50

5.5 miles. Hood route. 78 deg. 84% hum.73 dp.

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3.500.003.50

3.5 miles. In the hizood. Before the rain. Traffic is really picking up, for summer time. Usually there's not this many cars out there.

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16.250.0016.25

16.25 squishy miles.Hood route to Legacy trail to circus bridge and back. Like sweat dripping off the camelbak onto my lower back kind of hot. Like I left cheap asics sweat footprints in my driveway hot. So, yeah. Hot.

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8.500.008.50

7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. In the mist. No life saving breeze.

5:15 pm. 1 mile at the track. Lanes 6-8 were not flooded.I was going to run more, but then the sideways rain started.

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7.500.007.50

7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. 5:30 am start. 82 degrees. No rain. Frogs singing, bats, and a bald eagle. Getting my miles might be tough this week.

1. This week looks to be busy at work.

2. Spouse is in Omaha all week.

3. This week the boys go full pads at football practice.

4. We are expected ro get @ a foot of rain this week.

I'm going to have to take what I can get.

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7.500.007.50

Dodging rain. I run by a church sign that is bananas. I look forward to reading the next level of crazy each day. It is largely political, seldom biblical, and basically confirms every out of stater's assumptions about Floridians it is also blindingly bright. I should start taking pictures of their stuff.

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Hood route to Legacy trail and back. The church sign was sending a message about chemical dependency, i guess. There was a picture of the Frozen cast next to the words "Let it Go."

On the way back, they had a picture of Luigi, from Mario Brothers, next to the words "You are not a good god." Hmmmm.

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16.250.0016.25

16.25 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail to Circus Bridge and back. 5:40 am start. 2:19:05. 8:34 pace. 77 deg. 94% hum. 75 d.p.

I think the dudes that make Camelbaks ask each other "Does this fabric feel like a cheese grater to you?, because we should try to make this surface rougher. Perhaps if we had some barbed wire surrounding burlap, that would work."

Then the boys had their first football scrimmages of the year in Sarasota. They played against some larger children. "Um, I think the kid with a beard was holding." Both boys played well. Then I cut the grass. Man, I am beat. Time to go swimming.

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12.821.8814.70

6 am start. 10.2 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail to Colonia and back. Squish Squish Squish.

Weighed in BEFORE church this week. 188.5. 2.5 pound loss. I still have a long way to go.

5:15 pm. at track with Brian. I had to go to the track eventually. I've been putting this off for some time now. Both of us didn't really know what to do, so Brian made up the schedule. 1 up. 1600 (6:08). 800 (3:00). 400 (1:22). 200 easy, 200 (34). 1.5 down.

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7.500.007.50

6 am hood route to Legacy trail and back. Warm.

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7.500.007.50

7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. 6:15 am start. Super humid.

I went to work early yesterday and missed a run because I had a deadline. I finished way, way ahead of the deadline. So, I'm a little ticked off at me for missing the run. On the other hand, how fast am I at my job? DANG SPEEDY!

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5:45 am start. 1 mile. Turn around and go 1 mile home. Emergency bathroom stop. Don't worry, I made it! Then 2 miles close to home, with some quicker portions thrown in just because. Then 1.5 down. Rough start, good finish, not enough miles.

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5.500.005.50

5.5 miles. Hood route. Bats everywhere.

football jamboree is this weekend. Saturday and sunday we have to be in North Port very early for weigh in. I will have to transform into an evening runner this weekend. This will be fun.

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16.250.0016.25

16.25 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail to Circus Bridge and back. 5:15 PM start. Other than seeing the sunset over the bridges where I usually see the sunrise, there was NOTHING good about this run. I had to refill the camelbak, and I still ran out of water. I will gladly run in the morning, when possible, from now on. If I have to chose between 78 degrees with stupid high humidity / dew point and 92 degrees and slightly lower humidity / dew point, I'm taking the 78 degree run - every time.

Tommy had his jamboree in North Port this morning. Weigh in at 6:30. So, I spent the morning in the sun, had lunch at Panda Express, and then cut the grass before running. Not exactly a recipe for success. I'm going to try to get a run in before Johnny's jamboree tomorrow.

 

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5.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. I took a couple of days off. Saturday 's run left me with a sore lower back. So i chilled for a bit. I'm much better now.

On a completely unrelated note, does it feel like Runner's World magazine is trying really hard to make "Rungry" happen?

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11.503.0014.50

7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. Sometimes, it pays off to live in a place where homebuilding is constant. Porta johns are everywhere.

8:30 pm. at track. 2 up. (4) x 1200 < 5:00, 400 easy. 1 down. 4:39 (oops), 4:58, 4:55, 5:00. Drizzle throughout. Rain for realz - #4 and cool down.

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Moist miles.

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12.900.0012.90

12.9 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail to Venice avenue and back. 6 am start. Last mile in 7:00. Sweaty sweaty.

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10.200.0010.20

10.2 miles. Hood route. 6:15 am start. Still hot, but a bi better than usual. 7:05 last mile.

187 pounds.

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3.500.003.50

3.5 miles. Hood route. 6:15 am start. Sunrise over my lake, palm tree silhouettes in a yellow orange sky, effortlessly gliding across the earth, the only noises are my breathing, and the rythym of my stride, all is right with the world, and my place in it.

then I inhaled a bug.

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7.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. Last mile 6:41, but was over shadowed by crazy jumbo-tron church sign. It said "we support the first and the second amendments." And had a picture of the "I'm just a lonely old bill, sitting here on capital hill" animated scroll of paper, aiming a hand gun, and squinting with one eye.

Well, PTL and pass the ammuntition!

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3.5 miles. In tropical storm #9. I'd like to do that 5 minute 1200s with 400 AR workout after football practice tonight, but we're supposed to get 6 inches of rain in the next 3 days. It is likely that most of the lanes are flooded. We'll see.

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