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Location:

Buffalo,NY,

Member Since:

Aug 15, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Personal Bests
  • 1500m : 4:43 (May 2001)
  • 1 mile: 5:18 (August 2012) 
  • 5k: 17:39 (December 2003)
  • 8k: 30:02 (June 2003)
  • 10k: 37:21 (November 2003)
  • 15k : 59:48 (July 2012)
  • 10 miles: 62:39 (February 2002)
  • Half-Marathon (Covered Bridges): 1:23:29 (June 2002)
  • Marathon (Wineglass): 3:04:42 (Oct 2011)
  • Half Ironman (Tupper Lake): Swim 38:19, Bike 3:01:xx (with flat tyre change), Run 1:58:xx, Total time 5:44:44 (Jun 2004)

Short-Term Running Goals:

General Goals for 2013

  • Break 3 hours as Boston
  • Mile in 5:00
  • 5k in 17:30

Results and my 'A' Races for 2013 (Click for Race Report)

  • Y-10 10 Miler (February 9)
    • Goal: 63? (honestly, no idea)
    • DNS
  • Boston Marathon (April 15)
    • Goal: 2:57
    •  Time: 3:12:46
  • Springville Stampede (May 9)
    • Goal: 18:36
    • Time: 18:28
  • Chase Corporate Challenge 3.5 (June 6)
    • Goal: 20:30
    • Time: 20:30
  • Brian Moorman PUNT Foundation Blackbird 8K (June 19)
    • Goal: 30:00
    • Time: 30:03
  • Boilermaker 15k (July 14)
    • Goal 58:00
  • Mueller Mile (August)
    • Goal 5:00
  • Run into Buffalo 15k  (Sept 2)
    • Goal 57:30
  • Troy Turkey Trot 10k (Nov 28)
    • Goal 37:00

Long-Term Running Goals:

  1. Sub 3:00 Marathon
  2. 17:00 5k
  3. 1:20 Half-marathon

Personal:

Originally from the small town of Galway, NY (near Saratoga), I currently live in Buffalo, NY.  I'm a community pharmacist  I  graduated from the University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy with my pharmD in 2007 and my PhD in 2011. I'm married and have 2 dogs (Sadie, a lab, and Ralphie, a Eskie mix).  We enjoy anything outdoors from Backpacking and hiking to snowboarding.

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My shin has been bothering me and it was a little worse after the race so I took the last 4 days off as a nice beak.  I figured it was deserved after a good build up to 20+mile weeks.  So what better to celebrate shin pain and a 4 day rest than with marathon training!!!.

Because I'm super flighty and fickle I have once again made a 180 in my training and gonna train for a trail marathon on Memorial Day weekend!  I've gone from Half-marathon to 30K to 5K and now back to marathon in about a month.  So, the race is the sehgahunda trail marathon in Letchworth Park outside of Rochester.  I figure it's an easily attainable goal especially since there is little expectation to run fast.  The winner last year is a 2:40 marathoner and ran 4 hours so I figure sub 6 would be good for me.  Never done a trail race but I have hiked a lot, I better get use to running with a race belt.  We'll see how training goes and make sure my shins do ok.  I figure it's a good goal that will force me to train, unlike 5k or half-marathon training.  Plus I'm really just doing it for the hoodie you get when you finish. 

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Comments
From tesspip on Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 18:35:28 from 67.183.60.88

trail running is the best! Looks like you've done your time punching out fast times. I hope you enjoy the race and the training even more. I hear Rochester has great trails from a friend living in Moab from that area. Good Luck!! Stick with it!

From Nate on Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:14:19 from 67.20.214.133

Thanks! I've done a lot of hiking and screwing around in the woods and I love trails. I'm looking forward to running on them more once we lose our snow and the ground firms up. Luckily we do have nice places to run!

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