North Central Trail Marathon (2006)

Date: 2006-11-25
Location: Sparks, MD
Finish Time: 3:31:08
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• First 24 miles of course still quiet, scenic and flat
• Legs really hurt, still got down on one knee the next day to propose
• Shannon says yes, is aware that marriage will include undefined number of additional marathon watching experiences

Low-lights:

• Having one Thanksgiving on Thursday, another Thanksgiving on Friday and running a marathon on Saturday apparently makes me go cross-eyed
• Already ran MD, last time this course didn’t include that uphill from mile 24 on in
• Damn Giants try to ruin the whole weekend

Thanks:

• Bill Moran for driving me to and from this marathon, biking along the course as I ran.
• Shannon for saying yes.

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New Hampshire Marathon

Date: 2006-09-30
Location: Bristol, NH
Finish Time: 3:23:46
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Staying at the Inn on Newfound Lake
• Driving the course the night before, realizing there were hills, planning accordingly
• Perfect fall weather, fantastic course around Newfound Lake, post-race seafood in Ashland, NH…also, fudge

Low-lights:

• Pretty hard to find somewhere to eat breakfast on a Sunday morning in Bristol, NH

Thanks:

• Shannon for agreeing that running a marathon can be part of a standard weekend couples getaway, setting a precedent for many, many more similar weekends.

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Potomac River Marathon

Date: 2006-05-07
Location: Alexandria, VA
Finish Time: 3:21:22
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• New PR
• Out and back and out and back course along the Potomac really scenic, quite helpful in acquiring PR
• Can say I once finished a marathon in 8th place

Low-lights:

• Have to add that there were only 143 finishers
• Marathon start/finish 15 miles from her home, Marge declines to attend, chooses to sleep in
• PR still 11 minutes too slow to qualify for Boston

Thanks:

• Bill Moran for driving Shannon and I to and from this marathon and riding bike along the course as I ran.
• Shannon for spending her morning reading a book at a marathon.

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Hartford Marathon

Date: 2005-10-08
Location: Hartford, CT
Finish Time: 3:34:20
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Road trip with Mile Square Running Clubbers Mark and Paul
• All three wives not complaining about the rain, general boredom that is marathon watching
• Mark running a 3:18 in his first ever marathon

Low-lights:

• Rain, lots and lots of rain
• Emergency support call from CSTV hours after completion of race
• Rain

Thanks:

• Paul and Katie for car-pooling to and from Hartford with Shannon and I.
• Lisa for using her local knowledge to select the perfect post-race lunch spot.
• Shannon, Lisa and Katie for dealing with the rain.

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New Jersey Shore Marathon (2005)

Date: 2005-04-18
Location: Long Branch, NJ
Finish Time: 3:25:59
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Shannon’s marathon spectating debut
• Passing mile 25, randomly seeing high school friend Mark Savary on boardwalk watching the race, thinking I might be hallucinating
• First sub-3:30 since college

Low-lights:

• Getting lost on the way to pre-race dinner, ensuing fight with Shannon
• Lack of GPS devices in 2005
• Already ran NJ…twice

Thanks:

• Shannon for going to her first ever marathon.
• Mile Square Running Club for providing fun weekly runs around Hoboken to get me back into marathon shape.

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Bayshore Marathon

Date: 2004-05-29
Location: Traverse City, MI
Finish Time: 3:45:44
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Alysha moving to Traverse City, providing legitimate excuse to travel to Michigan
• Beautiful course along the coast of Grand Traverse Bay
• Drinking a “bag of beers”, staying out until 1am with Alysha and Chris the night before the race really fun, seemed like good idea

Low-lights:

• Drinking a “bag of beers”, staying out until 1am with Alysha and Chris the night before the race really fun, actually not a good idea
• Mile 23 pit-stop (see above)

Thanks:

• Alysha and Chris for putting me up for the weekend.

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New Jersey Shore Marathon (2004)

Date: 2004-04-25
Location: Long Branch, NJ
Finish Time: 4:14:10
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Impromptu marathon running, pacing someone else kind of fun
• Much, much better weather than the last time I ran this marathon
• Marathon still called “Jersey Shore Marathon”, MTV’s Jersey Shore five years away from forcing this race to change its name

Low-lights:

• My motivational techniques a bit over the top if recipient hasn’t seen Rocky IV
• Already ran NJ

Thanks:

• Erica for making me run an impromptu marathon and teaching me how to relax and not take the race so seriously.

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Ocean State Marathon

Date: 2003-10-12
Location: Providence, RI
Finish Time: 3:46:10
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Found out I could run a marathon even while being pretty sick
• Only one photo of this race exists, probably a good thing
• Bill Moran there at the end to drive me home, definitely a good thing

Low-lights:

• Found out running a marathon while being pretty sick actually not fun
• Rain
• Was driving to Rhode Island when this happened, radio broadcast did not do it justice

Thanks:

• Bill Moran for driving me to and from this race.

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Un-official Washington DC Marathon

Date: 2003-03-23
Location: Washington, DC
Finish Time:  3:48:16
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Grassroots effort to organize “Un-official” DC Marathon after the official race is canceled less than 48hrs prior to the start under dubious circumstances
• Finding out about grassroots effort to organize “Un-official” DC marathon on this new “internet” thing
• Seriously very cool how this whole race came together

Low-lights:

• Race organizer, H2O, using post 9/11 “security threats” as an excuse to cancel a marathon that they had no intention of ever putting on, taking our money anyway
• Friends, family letting me grow this beard, allowing me to walk around in public looking like some sort of deranged, marathon-running, mountain man
• Jon K placing asterisk next to this one due to “un-official” nature of the race

Thanks:

• Marge and Bill Moran, Odette, Jim and Rachel for coming out to support me.
• Everyone who helped make this race happen.
• Syracuse University hoops for refusing to end the day on a sour note and rallying from 17 points down to beat Oklahoma State in the second round of the NCAA tournament that afternoon.

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Blue Marsh Trail Marathon

Date: 2002-09-22
Location: Reading, PA
Finish Time: 4:12:46
Official Results: Good Luck Finding These
Race Website: N/A

Highlights:

• Pulling into start area, realizing this was a “trail” marathon
• Shortly thereafter, realizing what a “trail” marathon actually is
• No friends or family around to witness cool post-race trick where I squirt blood from my left middle toe by pressing down on toenail

Low-lights:

• No friends or family around to witnessed any portion of race, create photographic evidence of any kind
• Race now defunct, even Google doesn’t know about this marathon, passing reference to “that benign trail marathon” here is the only evidence that I can find on the entire interwebs
• Starting to think I imagined the whole thing

Thanks:

• Jim Newton for providing a post-race basement in which to recover and watch the Giants thrilling 9-6 victory over the Seahawks.

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Pennsylvania: Check (trust me)

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