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WA,

Member Since:

Feb 10, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

I was an 800/1500 runner in high school and college, with PRs of 1:55 and 4:08. I've run as fast as 16:15 for 5k and 1:20 for a half, but my bests in recent years are 17:07 5k (Dec. '11), 37:40 10k (Jan. '12), 1:23:49 half (Sept. '08), 2:53:12 marathon (September '10), and 4:45:06 50k (March '10).

Short-Term Running Goals:

Late 2015/2016 races: 

— Seattle Soltice 10k (Dec. 19)

— Nookachamps half marathon (Jan. 16)

— Toyko Marathon (Feb. 28) 

Personal:

I'm an editor at a newspaper in Bremerton, Washington and head coach of the Bremerton Jaguars youth track and field team.

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Trail run with Mike and Henry at the county land up on Newberry Hill. This is being master-planned as a larger trail system, and it'll be great once that's all complete. We did find some good single track eventually, so you can see the potential.

Parked at Klahowya and took off to the south, not knowing exactly what the trails were like. The fog broke right as we left, beautiful sunny morning in the trees. But the trail early on was absolutely soaked, like flood stage. I've never seen anything like that outside of running through a creek. That's what is was like for the first three miles. Eventually we gave up trying to keep feet warm and just bounded through (where we could, some stretches were really deep). So there's some mitigation needed there. Eventually it lighten up and we hit some forest roads for awhile, wound around not knowing where we were for an hour. A lot of the trail was overgrown, so we went pretty slowly.

After an hour we were back to the starting point, and we took off on another trailhead, heading west from closer to the school. Much nicer trails, still wet but not flood-stage (mostly) and good windy single-track to play on. Again, we weren't sure where we were, so the run turned into a good 90-minute number eventually as we wound around. But we found our way back, got some sense of direction. Fun time on a holiday morning, so who cares if it took a little longer and my feet got wet. Henry had eight on his Garmin, otherwise I couldn't have even guessed what we ran.

My left foot has an odd pain, kind of a structural thing just on the top of the foot. Comes and goes, but felt it after the race Saturday and again today.

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