Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon

Date: 2009-11-22
Location: Nashville, TN
Finish Time:  4:06:44
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Race shirt managed to combine Star Wars, monkeys and marathon running so…yeah
• Finally got to watch Rick Nash lose a hockey game in person
• Get to go back to Nashville someday (see below)

Low-lights:

• Got a puppy the week before, didn’t realize someone would have to stay home and care for said puppy
• Shannon not using her ticket for the flight from Newark to Nashville somehow flagged me as a terrorist, automatically canceled my return trip
• Nashville probably would have been more fun if I wasn’t by myself

Thanks:

• Shannon for staying home to watch our new puppy.

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Chicago Marathon

Date: 2009-10-11
Location: Chicago, IL
Finish Time:  3:43:30
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• 2009 version of the marathon went a lot smother than the 2007 edition
• Post race cheeseburgers, cheeseburgers, cheeseburgers
• Left foot pain free, thanks planter fasciitis boot!

Low-lights:

• Can say I once beat 26,987 runners in a race but have to mention that I also lost to 6,715 runners that day
• Surprisingly low number of people who got Jon K’s Rozelle sweatband
• Mile 23 emergency pit stop

Thanks:

• Jon for pushing to run Chicago.
• Shannon and Val for dealing with the cold while we ran Chicago.

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Atlanta Marathon

Date: 2009-03-29
Location: Atlanta, GA
Finish Time:  3:38:04
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Got to enjoy the fleeting phenomena that is NHL action in Atlanta
• Actually ran with a pace group for once, found it kind of fun
• Shannon finally made that pilgrimage to her own personal mecca

Low-lights:

• Left foot still hurts, planter fasciitis definitely sucks

Thanks:

• Shannon for going along with yet another really quick travel turn-around for a marathon.

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Thunder Road Marathon

Date: 2008-12-13
Location: Charlotte, NC
Finish Time: 3:44:24
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Finished race
• Checked off North Carolina
• Got back to Hoboken in time for Annemarie’s birthday party that night

Low-lights:

• Shannon not a fan of the fly out Friday night, run marathon Saturday morning, fly back Saturday afternoon game plan
• Race not affiliated with Bruce in any way
• Left foot really hurts, starting to think planter fasciitis might suck

Thanks:

• Shannon for dealing with an extremely quick travel turn-around for a marathon.

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Maine Marathon

Date: 2008-10-05
Location: Portland, ME
Finish Time:  3:40:50
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Walking around downtown Portland trying to decide on a pre-race dinner location surprisingly fun
• Finishing miles around Portland’s Back Cove Trail
• Relaxing post-race night at the Hancock Inn

Low-lights:

• Pretty sick, popped a bunch of decongestants right before race, was quite loopy throughout
• Not really sure what Millie and Jason are talking about when they said this marathon course is pretty flat *
• Left foot really starting to hurt, begin researching planter fasciitis

* Note:  Would find out Millie and Jason were talking about three years later while running MDI marathon in Bar Harbor which they were using as their baseline

Thanks:

• Shannon for listening to me complain about being sick, watching this marathon anyway.

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Green Bay Marathon

Date: 2008-05-18
Location: Green Bay, WI
Finish Time:  3:30:46
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Third Tynes the charm, got to follow through on promise to wear Lawrence Tynes jersey during the race
• Finish line beer and bratwurst
• Made the local paper…was rubbing it in

Low-lights:

• Legs just not up for the Lambeau Leap at mile 25.5
• Forgot to miss the finish line wide left twice before running straight through on my third attempt
• Pre-race Powerpoint presentation regarding the half/full split, guy with bullhorn, this sign, probably overkill

Thanks:

• Jon for putting this trip together.
• Sara for supporting the three of us, helping us know when to turn for the full marathon and letting us know that we were “looking strong”.

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Gasparilla Marathon

Date: 2008-02-10
Location: Tampa Bay, FL
Finish Time: 3:27:20
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• First this happened, then this happened, so the traditional Syracuse visor and running shirt each get a break in favor of an Eli jersey and my lucky Giants hat
• Have seen large groups of grown men drinking in the middle of the day before, but not dressed as pirates
• Finally got to shave horrible beard after it got done helping the Giants win Superbowl XLII

Low-lights:

• None, post-Superbowl XLII euphoria still in effect

Thanks:

• To Shannon for putting up with my playoff beard
• To the NY Giants for everything in the two months preceding this marathon

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Green Mountain Marathon

Date: 2007-10-20
Location: South Hero, VT
Finish Time:  3:27:21
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Bed and Breakfast on Lake Champlain
• More perfect fall weather for a New England marathon
• Magic family-member-of-police-chief card gets me out of speeding ticket on the way home

Low-lights:

• Actually speeding due to urgent need to pee, lack of exits or bathrooms of any kind anywhere on Route 87

Thanks:

• Shannon for putting up with another marathon-centric weekend getaway and participating in an endless amount of conversations regarding my pending employment decision.

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Delaware Marathon

Date: 2007-05-20
Location: Wilmington, DE
Finish Time:  3:26:51
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Got to listen to Shannon regale me with tales of her years as a University of Delaware Fighting Blue Hen
• The miles along the Christina and Brandywine Rivers
• Got to say this a lot

Low-lights:

• Emergency pit-stop after only three miles
• Definitely lost to the pink tutu man
• This guy

Thanks:

• Danielle and Derek for letting us stay with them over this weekend.

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Last Chance for Boston Marathon

Date: 2007-02-11
Location: Dublin, OH
Finish Time: 3:41:49
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Somehow convinced Shannon to drive from Hoboken, NJ to Canton, OH, visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame and then watch me run a marathon in Columbus, OH
• Got to see Lombardi Trophy and assorted memorabilia from this game
• Pro Football HOF nice enough to put up a Jets display so Shannon could get her picture taken in front of something

Low-lights:

• Marathon course actually 26 one-mile loops around an office park outside of Columbus, OH
• Advertised as Last Chance for Boston, turned out to be 17th to last chance
• Very cold

Thanks:

• Marge and Bill Moran for providing a place to stay on either end of this trip.
• Shannon for agreeing to all this driving and football hall of fame visiting.
• Shannon for getting me that cold weather running jacket for Christmas.

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