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Garmin Marathon in the Land of Oz

April 25, 2017Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Garmin Marathon in the Land of Oz

Date: 2017-04-22
Location: Olathe, KS
Finish Time: 4:17:48
Race Website
Official Results
Local Brewery

Highlights:

• Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead – “Dylan” caught a fish, Luke fed a goat, both boys successfully mined for priceless gemstones
• Combat Air Museum – Felt the need, the need for speed
• Red Crow Brewery – Plenty of perfectly safe places for your children to wander around while you drink beer

Low-lights:

• Flight to Kansas City cancelled, rerouted through Chicago, arrived in Olathe just in time for a solid 5 hours of sleep before the race
• Fighting a stomach bug, still managed to set a personal record…for porta-potties hit during one marathon
• Significance of the Brown v. Board of Education museum way over Luke and Dylan’s heads

Thanks:

• To Shannon for once again herding our kids through airport security, shuttle buses, rental car counters, late night hotel check-ins, complimentary hotel breakfasts and multiple visits to the hotel pool.
• To Luke for once again helping me close out the final 100 yards of a marathon.
• To Dylan for once again managing to fall asleep anywhere, any time.

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Garden State Half Challenge

March 27, 2017Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Garden State Half Challenge

Date: 2017-03-26
Location: Somerset, NJ
Finish Time: 1:29:47
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Getting back down to my racing weight, fastest half marathon in about two years
• Jim and Dori completing the half marathon challenge, Jim unequivocally vowing to run the Empire State Marathon with me in the fall
• Two races means two medals means each kid gets one and no one is forced to experience the indignity of having to share

Low-lights:

• Technically not a half marathon but rather a half marathon challenge made up of a 5K race immediately followed by a 10 mile race
• Those 20 or so minutes between the end of the 5K and the start of the 10 miler kind of cold

Thanks:

• Jim and Dori for braving the wind and cold
• Dave Pugh for motivating me to get back down to my racing weight
• Luke for continuing to participate in any and all post-race celebratory activities

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New York City Marathon (2016)

November 7, 2016Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

New York City Marathon (2016)

Date: 2016-11-06
Location: New York, NY
Finish Time: 4:03:26
Race Website

Highlights:

• Minimal travel costs, spent the night before the race at the luxurious Hotel Moran, indulged in a pre-race back massage provided by one of their experienced staff members
• Running across the Verrazano Bridge still pretty cool
• Managed to find Reid, Swati and Dave Pugh on the course

Low-lights:

• Two marathons in one month, still a tall order
• Fifth Avenue, still mostly uphill
• Announcing the marathon winners when I was only at mile 13, still mildly annoying

Thanks:

• To Dave Pugh for his “support”
• To Swati for making an impromptu support appearance on First Ave
• To the Optimity crew who came out to support in Brooklyn even if some of them failed to get there in time because I was so fast

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Run Crazy Horse Marathon

October 15, 2016Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Run Crazy Horse Marathon

Date: 2016-10-09
Location: Hill City, SD
Finish Time: 3:58:15
Race Website
Official Results
Local Brewery

Highlights:

• South Dakota really up Dylan’s alley, able to hit all of his must-see items (Dinosaurs, Snakes, Turtles & Bears) in one day
• Exploring the natural beauty of the Black Hills, living life off the grid for a few days
• Luke was mildly pumped to receive his own marathon finisher medal, Dylan was just happy to land on the podium

Low-lights:

• Moran Family trip to Mount Rushmore complete but 28 years behind schedule
• Kind of forgot that the marathon was going to be run at 6,000+ ft above sea level
• All Deadwood museums closed so Dylan just quit

Thanks:

• To Marge and Bill for supporting yet another marathon trip that involved air and car travel with two small children
• To Shannon for agreeing to spend 5 days with our kids and my parents in a cabin in the woods with no cell service and no wi-fi
• To Luke for helping me across another finish line and Dylan for continuing to travel like a champ

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Ironman 70.3 Atlantic City

September 19, 2016Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Ironman 70.3 Atlantic City

Date: 2016-09-18
Location: Atlantic, NJ
Finish Time: 1:56:50
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Successfully completed (one-third of one-half of) an Ironman!
• Team Mom and Dads placed 20th in the relay despite my uninspired half-marathon performance
• Witnessed some locals participating in a traditional Atlantic City 5:30 AM belt-fight

Low-lights:

• Heat
• Heat related splits
• Failed to recoup race entry fees at local casino

Thanks:

• To Dori for talking me into a half-Ironman relay and taking on the swim
• To Jim deciding his first competitive bike event should be a 56 miler
• To Shannon for coming along for support (and also John and Peg for watching our kids so Shannon could come along for support)

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River to Sea Relay (2016)

August 14, 2016Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

River to Sea Relay (2016)

Date: 2016-08-06
Location: Lambertville, NJ to Manasquan, NJ
Finish Time: 8:37:03
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Ran respectable splits with 100% less excruciating foot pain than I experienced during last year’s event
• Old man squad managed to finish with event’s fourth fastest elapsed time
• Extended the sea portion of the event into a solid week at the jersey shore with tons of beach fun for the boys

Low-lights:

• Course shortened by 21 miles for some unknown reason
• Heat
• Just straight up dominated by a team of 90 pound teenaged runners

Thanks:

• Marge and Bill for putting me up the night before the race and dropping me off to meet my friends at the start high school style
• Shannon for driving the kids ‘down the shore’ and picking me up at the finish
• John, Peg, Shannon for working their beach vacation around the race date

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Run4Troops Marathon

June 28, 2016Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Run4Troops Marathon

Date: 2016-06-25
Location: Dyersville, IA
Finish Time: 4:18:06
Race Website
Official Results
Local Brewery

Highlights:

• Post flight, Dylan-led, hike through the Crabtree Nature Center and standard dip in the hotel pool
• Visiting the Blacksmith Shop in Galena before jumping into a game and living out my baseball fantasy with Luke at the Field of Dreams (while Dylan napped and ate ice cream)
• Fossil Hike, Tractor Museum, swimming in Lake Michigan and checking out dinosaur bones in Chicago

Low-lights:

• The midwest is still very hot and very humid and it took me a long time to run a marathon, the kids were not super pumped about the wait
• Repeatedly warned Luke not to poke his Field of Dreams Commemorative Mini-Bat through that sewer grate. Field of Dreams Commemorative Mini-Bat currently located at the bottom of that sewer
• “I pooped in my pants!” – Dylan, in the O’hare food court 15 minutes before boarding our return flight

Thanks:

• To Shannon for managing another lengthy road trip across the midwest with two small children and to Luke and Dylan for putting up with a lengthy road trip across the midwest to the best of their 5-year old and 3-year old abilities
• To Blair for all the kid-friendly Iowa related recommendations
• To John and Peg for transporting the Moran clan to / from Newark Airport and watching our pup while we were gone

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Superhero Half Marathon (2016)

May 20, 2016Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Superhero Half Marathon (2016)

Date: 2016-05-15
Location: Morris Township, NJ
Finish Time: 1:36:32
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Pre-race introduction of the newest family member
• Post-race bbq with the Newton and Hutton kids
• Shannon’s birthday provided the perfect excuse for a post-race cookie cake binge

Low-lights:

• Participation of Optimity Advisors runners not named Mike Bertolotti
• Post-race hail storm
• Luke, utterly terrified of the vicious new family member

Thanks:

• To Mike for making the trip down from CT
• To Jim for making the trip up from ‘down the shore’
• To Shannon for allowing me to run a half marathon on her birthday

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Hogeye Marathon

April 14, 2016Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Hogeye Marathon

Date: 2016-04-10
Location: Fayetteville, AR
Finish Time: 3:38:03
Race Website
Official Results
Local Brewery

Highlights:

• Completed Phase II (Log appropriate training miles, run a 3:30-ish marathon, remain pain-free) of my Plantar Fasciitis Recovery Plan
• Sobering history lessons
• Visited music nerd heaven and picked up some interesting interior decorating ideas

Low-lights:

• In addition to running a marathon, also added Arkansas to the list of states in which I’ve been ticketed for speeding
• Had ideal searching conditions, found zero diamonds
• Random thing you can climb to the top of closed for renovations

Thanks:

• To Shannon for agreeing to spend a long weekend in Arkansas and only requesting a morning at a hot springs powered spa in exchange
• To John and Peg for allowing us to off-load our human and canine responsibilities for the duration of our trip
• To the running weather gods who pushed the thunder and torrential downpours to the morning after the marathon

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New York City Marathon (2015)

November 2, 2015Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

New York City Marathon (2015)

Date: 2015-11-01
Location: New York, NY
Finish Time: 3:52:49
Race Website

Highlights:

• Finally experienced running across the Verrazano, being part of the mass of runners moving through the outer boroughs, the wall of sound from the crowd on First Avenue and the fantastic finish at the site of my weekly training run in Central Park; can now answer in the affirmative to all those people who keep asking if I’ve done NYC
• Managed to successfully find my family of spectators at mile 26 and after the race
• Didn’t limp, didn’t walk, managed to cut a whole hour off the disaster that was Omaha and woke up the following morning without any foot pain

Low-lights:

• Overweight, under-trained, just getting over a bout of Plantar Faciitis and consequently, not looking so hot at the end
• Also, perhaps, not the greatest form coming down the stretch
• That post-race, 1.2 mile, poncho-zombie walk to the family reunion area

Thanks:

• To Shannon for volunteering to bring the kids into NYC to watch the finish and to John, Peg, Leigh and Andrew for making it possible for Shannon to bring the kids into NYC to watch the finish
• To Dave Pugh for allowing me to talk myself into running NYC
• To honorary enablers, Dave & Kate Monahan for their “support”

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