Season almost done....

Season is almost done...more to follow.

Breathe in, breathe out, move on...

For the 2013 Marine Corps Marathon I had really high hopes. I had trained hard.  I had run a great 20 miler just weeks before. The weather was perfect. Although a little nervous, I was in a terrific mood after an exciting Navy win over Pitt the day before.  So race day ready to attack the course….

 

I got up early went for a quick jog at home just to get things moving and we made our way to DC. Then had an uneventful trip on the Metro to the Pentagon Station and a short walk to the corrals. Hit the port-a-john before the start and lined up just in front of the 4:00 hour corral.

As usual, exciting Hollister blast off to start and me and 30,000 of my closest friend start of our 26.2 mile journey…”Life’s a Journey not a Destination” (Ralph Waldo Emerson or Aerosmith)

 

So I am running smooth easy pace… the first seven miles in 59:12, right on schedule! Then I made the turn around in Rock Creek Park and I was hit with severe stomach cramps….

 

Ok, I’ll find a port-a- john…just past mile 8 marker …mission accomplished in an out minimal time lost and back on track…in fact despite the stop mile 9 was a 9min/mi pace…I can do this.

 

Mile 10 8:50/mi , ok settle down …nice pace you got this Kevin….then Irun behind the Lincoln Memorial between 10 and 11 miles and cramps come again…ok I’ll walk run till I get then end of Haines point…at the half way point I’m still under 2:00 I can do this…it the port-a-johns at the end of the point…eat the cliff bar and sports beans and keep going….

 

I struggle with some more cramps as I head back toward the Mall and find another pit stop near the Smithsonian at mile 19.5…now I’m completely toast…I can’t eat…I can’t seem to get enough fluids and the 4:00 pace guy goes screaming by…

 

The last 10K is just a slug fest and I get beat up pretty good…it would be easy to just quit but the thousands of other running and even more spectators keep you going….

 

Then I am reminded why I was running when one of the athletes on a hand crank bike goes by me on the 14^th street bridge…this one is not about me….this race and race season has been about people like Corey Petersen who overcome more than a stomach cramp to finish their journey.

 



 

It was when the 4:30 pacer went by at mile 25 that a song popped into my head “I bought a cheap watch from a crazy man floating down canal, it doesn't use numbers or moving hands, it always just says NOW, Now you may be thinking that I was had, but this watch is never wrong. And If I have trouble the warranty said, Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On” (Jimmy Buffett)

 

So I shuffle up Marine Hill to the finish (4:39:55), where Bobbi and the girls (thank you ladies and congrats to Bobbi and GR on a great MCM 10K) are cheering me on. The hundreds of Marines cheer me to finish as if I had just won.  The Marines lining the finishing chute heartily congratulate me and one young 2^nd LT put the medal over my head and adds a perfect salute.

 

No sub 4, no PR and another lack luster MCM performance.  However, reality hits me square in the face as we head thru the free food and stuff to the Charity Hill tent for the Team Semper Fi Fund…there parked outside the hospitality tent were a dozen hand crank wheelchairs and inside the athletes were on the massage table getting rubbed down from their long journeys…stomach cramp v. no legs…shut up Kevin…you finished.

I’ll do MCM again.  I love the atmosphere and the support you get the entire 26.2 miles and beyond.  And I will continue to run and raise funds and awareness for the Semper Fi Fund.

http://fundraising.semperfifund.org/TKORuns

 

MCM in 5 Days

MCM in 5 Days…

In five days I will compete in my 4^th Marine Corps Marathon.  Last year I thought I was on track for a great run…then I was side tracked with a hip injury and completed the race in pain but I did complete it.

This year I have worked hard to keep off the injured list and believe I am in my best shape yet.  I have over 1,043 miles of training and races so far in 2013.  Most of my focus from mid-May to September was ensuring that Bobbi was prepared to do the 70.3. Once her race season finished, I jumped back into mine.

Since, then I have put in 153 miles on the road. I also worked on my core with crunches after most of my short runs. I had a successful Navy Half Marathon, ran a really strong 20 Miler in South County, and have stayed injury free.

My goal is a sub four hour marathon or around a 9 min/mile pace.  But I wouldn’t be surprised if I was able to get closer to an 8:45/mile pace or a 3:50ish on the run.  I ran a strong 20 Miler 4 weeks ago in South County on a course much hillier than the MCM, in 8:45/mi. I felt good and had a lot left when I finished and I left a little out there not wanting push too hard.

I have figured out on the 20 miler my fluid and nutrient intake and have a plan to mentally and physically break the race into four 7 mile runs.  I think I can keep close to a 7 mile per hour pace which will allow me to take fluids and food every hour. If I follow that pattern I will be doing great.

Now as for the real reason I wanted to run the MCM…

I could say it is just to prove to myself I can do it. Stay injury free and give it my all…

But all along this year I just wanted to raise awareness for the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund… http://fundraising.semperfifund.org/TKORuns

Community Athelete Coordinator Corey Petersen

I have talked before about the amazing stuff this organization does and saw it first hand at last year’s Ripley Race 5K.  I am humbled and proud to be a Community Athlete for such an amazing organization and hope the small amount of money I have raised this year so far, goes a long way to help the Injured Marines healing process.

So for those who may have thought I would run the MCM in my kilt…Sorry, to disappoint.  I said from the start if I hit my goal of $1775 I would do it. I have run in the kilt for each $250 raised…

So in 5 days I will hit the streets of Arlington, VA and Washington, DC with 30,000 others who will be part of the few who can say the ran Marine Corps. Ooh Rah!

Devil Dog 7K 2013

I ran the Devil Dog 7K on Wednesday morning. I really like the runs that Marine Base Henderson Hall puts on. They are low key but challenging. The course takes you from Smith Gym on one side of the base, along the wall of Arlington Cemetery, out the other side of the base and downhill to the Iwo Jima Memorial. You then loop around the Memorial and then return to Smith Gym. It was a little longer the advertised 7K and Fort Whipple Hill is a great downhill but it really makes a tough return trip uphill. I finished strong and ran my fasted mile on the uphill during mile 3, which was my plan. I was the 8th male finisher and 9th overall. Yes, I got beat by one chic by 30 seconds...LOL!

40 Days and Nights until the MCM

http://fundraising.semperfifund.org/TKORuns

Well, its on!

Bobbi's 70.3 is over and I am now going to concentrate on getting ready for the MCM.

It started with the Navy/Air Force Half Marathon last Saturday.

It's a great course and ran a PR pace for the first 10 miles before shutting it down and jogging in the last three mile. Despite the scaling back I nearly PR's the with a 8:03/mi pace.

Tomorrow, I tackle the the third race of the Henderson Hall Ooh Rah Series - The Devil Dog 7K...My goal is to hit this one hard including Fort Whipple Hill (which I have talked about before)....Shooting for a sub 31:00 or less than 7 min/mi...

Prelim Result...for the ES6

Endless Summer 6 hour Run in the books...Clan Whisman ran 32+ Miles in 6 hours. Bobbi ran 8.3, Cori ran 4.15 (thanks to Elisa for running her) and I ran 20.65 and Celia volunteered at the start finish line recording runner as they cross for each lap...we raised some $ for the Semper Fi Fund and had fun...maybe next year I'll run the entire six hours.... — Thank you Capt. Mosi D. Smith.

Endless Summer 6 Hour run

Blog following family and friends...On Saturday we will be competing in the Endless Summer 6 Run as a 3 member relay team (Clan Whisman...Kevin, Bobbi and Cori running the 4 mile lap, Celia volunteering at the start finish and our friend Elisa adding some support for Cori's lap). We are hoping the one of you would step up and offer to pledge $1 for every mile we complete for the Semper Fi Fund (http://fundraising.semperfifund.org/TKORuns)...

 

Running on Vacation…

Hawai’i is amazing.  I could just end with that but that would not do it justice. 

I promised myself that I would run while we visiting friends in Hawai’i.  Now that meant taking running gear in the already jammed suitcases… it also meant signing up for a couple of races while we were there.

I got my first run just a day after arriving.  I was a 5.25 mile run up and down and back up the hills of the Aiea area near Pearl Harbor.  Bobbi joined me for the first mile and I found my way thru the neighborhood and down to the harbor.

The next day was 4^th of July. We made our way to Ko’ Olina to spend the day on the beach and I managed to get another 4.25 miles in before it got too busy.

On Saturday, July 6^th, the entire family ran the Independence 5K Fun Run/Walk on Ford Island. The course was actually a little long 3.34 miles, but I ran very fast 6:53/mi in the kilt. Bobbi ran a PR and the girls ran/walked most of it.  We ran past the Arizona and Utah Memorials and down the historic landing strip on Ford Island to finish.

We made our way to the Big Island next and I got a very nice 4.5 mile run in.  It was cool only about 55 degrees when I started and despite running at 4000ft, I felt good running 8 min/miles.

A couple days later we were back on Oahu and got another 5 mile run in around the Aiea area.

Finally on Sunday, the 14^th, Bobbi and I ran in the Coconut Chase 8K.  I ran with her and kept I good pace for her on a tough course. Despite the beautiful view, the course was contained in a park and on a bike path. 500+ people crammed on the tight path, it was not fun.  I was not very well organized.

All in all did well got over 27 miles on 6 runs and beautiful scenery to go with it.

My First Tri

My FIRST Tri….

Sunday was my first triathlon, the Tri for Environment.  The race was put on by the Annapolis Triathlon Club and held at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Rhode River, MD.  The race was a Sprint that consisted of an 800 meter swim, a 10 Mile bike, and 5K Run.

I have done numerous duathlons now so the format of event, transition, event, transition, event is not foreign to me. However, the swim is another story. I consider myself n strong swimmer. And I had not trained for the swim portion of this event very much.  So I knew it was going to be challenging. What I wasn’t excepting the diversity of the skills needed for this race.

The swim course was an 800 meter open water swim in a protected bay of the Rhode River. There were a couple things that made this a hard.  We started in the water…which means a lot of trending around before you started.  The second tough part was the jellyfish.  They were pretty bad in the very warm water.  I was following Bobbi’s advice and started near the back and out of the way so I didn’t get run over.  I sighted the buoys really well and made a nice line for the turn buoy once I was past the dock.  That is when I got my jellyfish sting on my foot and ankle…it is kind of like a bee sting…hurt and then it was just annoying for the rest of the race.  I mixed up my strokes mainly to sight the buoys and churned along about 3 inches underwater all the way (once a submariner always submariner). 

Out of the water and across the first timing mat (another 175 to 200 yards up the road) in 28:32 (counting the transition that comes out to be 2:59/100 meters, so I may have been a little faster than that in the water). 

Not unhappy with my swim (I didn’t drown or end up halfway down the Chesapeake Bay) I made the transition on the bike and out I went.  The bike was two 5 mile loops partially in the SERC property and some on the main road.  I wasn’t hard and did well, despite the very rough road sections on SERC (speed bumps, gravel, numerous potholes, etc.). I did the bike in 32:20 just over 18.5 mph. While on the bike I refueled with liquids and food and cruised into the second transition feeling pretty good by making up time on the bike with my slow swim and heading for the run.

The run…it is what I do best, right?…just a few days before I rocked the Chesty Puller 5K with a PR running 6:51/mi.  What I failed to mention (although described much differently on the race info) this was a trail run.  It has been raining every day for weeks and this trail run quickly turned into a mud run. 

A single tract trail run in which you then must navigate around, trees, roots, mud pits, slippery hills, slower runners, slippery wooded bridges, buildings and you never get a good pace. So my thoughts for a sub 8 min/mile quickly faded and I slugged along the course hoping not to fall. I finished the run a slow 28:32 or 9:12/mi. Overall, I finished in 1:28:27, 14 of 20 in the (M40-49) and 92 of 192 overall finishers.

For my first, yes I said first which means there might be more, triathlon I am not unhappy on how I did.  I know that I would need to get a lot more time in the pool to do anything longer or to get any faster in the water.  I am seriously considering doing another Sprint in September…the day after Bobbi’s 70.3 in Jamestown, Va.

Marines, Submarining, and Semper Fi Fund

MARINES:

Latest update is a PR for the Chest Puller 5K. The race is run by folks at Smith Gym on Henderson Hall and I always have fun in these races. The race honors Lt. Gen Chest Puller and the 26^th was his actual Birthday…Ooh Rah!

 
I was very relaxed and did a quick jog of about a half mile before the start. My goal was to run as close to a 7min/mi as possible. First mile is relatively flat and I settled down and ran a 7:15. The second mile include running partially down Ft. Whipple Hill and then running back up past the Ft Myer Old Post Chapel and I maintained my 7:15 pace. Mile 3, running along the Arlington National Cemetery western wall I really felt good and kicked in and ran a final mile in 6:26. This tied my PR for this distance and PR for this race of a 20:50 or 6:51/mile

 
I’m never going to be able to catch the speedy Marines that run the races but it is always a test and I was really pleased on how I finished.

 
Submarining:

My first Tri on Sunday…just going to go out and have some fun…

 
Semper Fi Fund:

I received a great note from the Community Athlete coordinator of Semper Fi Fund, that they put together a Facebook post about me https://www.facebook.com/groups/562143307141552/?ref=ts&fref=ts.

 

So I'm going to do Tri....

I am signed up for the Tri for the Environment at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) on the Rhode River in Edgewater, MD. http://www.triannapolis.org/events?eventId=641561&EventViewMode=EventDetails

800 m swim, 10 mile bike and a 5K run... Bobbi is doing this one too. I am pretty sure she will beat me out of the water...since I will have beat the water into submission and then bike and run. 

Getting the runs in…

So the weekend started with Friday…I did the yard work and cut the grass between rain showers and watching the Midshipmen graduate on-line, then packed up the car for our trip to Ohio to visit family.  The car trip was traffic filled and what normally takes 5 ½ hours took 7, ugh!   The only saving grace was I was able to listen to the Penguins clinch the series v. Ottawa on the way.

Saturday morning was chilly…ok it was cold.  There was frost on the ground and the temperature was only 38F.  Bobbi and I ran 7 hilly and chilly miles near East Springfield, Ohio at a nice pace.  We then got ready for other road trip to a wedding in Canton, Ohio.  It was at a very nice winery (http://www.gervasivineyard.com/) and it was worth the trip to let loose and have some fun at the reception.

Sunday morning was again cold, only 39F when we started. Bobbi and I hit the road this time on the bike. We accomplished 25 miles on a very hilly route.  We did well and maintain a good overall pace. Afterward we helped prep for a Sunday Memorial Day picnic.  It was nice to talk to family, especially with Dad. Toward the end I fixed an electrical cable on a trailer that was to haul some tractors to the parade the next day…your welcome Ron.

Monday morning had us packing to head HOME!  But first we made it Richmond, Ohio for a church breakfast, a walk through the town’s Historical Crew House and Museum, and then the Memorial Day parade.  It was cool and started to sprinkle at the end.  However, Bobbi’s grandfather Bud Jones was the Grand Marshall and it was just as quaint as I always remember.  Then we finally hit the road back to Perduret House.  Thanks to my trusty navigator, she steered us around a couple stop and go traffic spots on near I-68 and I-70 interchange,  it took about 6 ½ hours…could have been worse. We got peel and eat steamed shrimp and crab cakes and chowed down once we got home.

I was trying to find any excuse not to hit the road this morning but the not even and non-predicted rain storm could stop me from getting in a solid 4.5 mile run in. It was an easy pace up to Capitol Hill and down to the Smithsonian Castle and back but felt good despite the 1^st mile getting a little wet.

Life happens and sometimes you just have to get the run in….5 tomorrow and 7 on Thursday as we get closer to Bobbi's Tri in June...

Iwo Jima Memorial 7K

Ooh Rah!

I have ran this race for 4 years now. It's run by the Henderson Hall Smith Gym as part of the Ooh Rah Run Series.

I have run it faster but never right after running a 1/2 marathon just 3 days before.

I ran it at a 7:42 min /mi pace (34:54 for slightly longer than a 7K at 4.5 miles) and had no issues running up the hill from the Memorial to the Old Post Chapel on Fort Myer. It is very face race the the top 2 guys ran in in less the 6:00 min/mile pace. I thought I heard someone say I was 12th and there were 102 in the race (but that is unofficial since the only awards were for the top 3 male and female overall).

I'm not racing again till the end of June for another Ooh Rah Run Series race, the Chest Puller 5K. So there is plenty of time for some more money to be raised for the Semper Fi Fund. $100 more in donations means I would have to run it in a kilt. That should get some interesting looks from all the Marines. http://fundraising.semperfifund.org/TKORuns

Until then, I will be concentrating on helping Bobbi with her first Tri of the year in two weeks. The Jamestown Olympic Tri which will be held on the same course as her Williamsburg 70.3 in September. I get to be the sherpa.

We are going to sign up for a race while we are on vacation in Hawaii in July. The Coconut Chase 8K, that should be fun.

This weekend we are heading to Ohio to visit family. We plan to get in both a run and a bike. The hills eastern Ohio are challenging and both the runs (7 miles) and the bike (25 or so) will push us pretty hard.

Oh, one more thing a shout out to Corey Petersen the Community Athlete Coordinator of the Semper Fi Fund. Thanks, Corey for your encouragement it means a lot to know I'm actually making a difference in the lives of the injured Marines. You are a true  inspiration to my family and I and I can't wait to met you in the fall at the Marine Corps Marathon activities.

Short way to go but a long time to get there

It’s only 90 miles from Perduret House in Mayo, Maryland to Fredericksburg, VA for the Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon . But on Saturday afternoon it took the Whisman Clan over 4 hours to navigate through the mess that is I-95 South and even alternative routes of US 1 South.   I never did figure out what it was that was causing the delay, but it did cause a lot of stress and took a lot out of us.  We tried to relax by going to going to see a movie (STAR TREK: Into the Darkness...great movie BTW) the night before the run, but I don’t think I every really relaxed.

Race morning we took the shuttle from a Park-n-Ride near the hotel and got there in plenty of time, to get Bobbi on another shuttle to downtown Fredericksburg  for the Historic 10K (more on her awesome day later).

Then I got the girls over to the Team Semper Fi Fund tent in the finishing area. The girls volunteered and assisted Elizabeth O’Connell and the ladies. As always, they are awesome and I can’t wait to meet up with them again in the numerous events we have left in the season.

As for me and the run, I was feeling great for the first 5½ miles. Running a nice 7:32/mi pace, somewhere between 5 ½ and 6 my body started to shut down. I drank some G2 and ate half  of a Bonk Bar that I had.  Some of it was the humidity that I was way overdressed for.   I had worn my compression shirt under my race T, and I never seemed to be able regulate my heat. I am sure some of it was the left over stress. Oh, I can't do well on them all.

The rest of the Half was a slugfest and I just grinded out a 2:01:02 or 9:14/mi. (181 of 462 Age Group (M 45-49), 1272 of 3198 Males, and 1752 of 6276 Overall)). No course PR, no Half PR, but Bobbi and the girls were waiting for me at finish and it was best part of the race.

Bobbi ran the Inaugural Historic 10K and she rocked it!!! A 1:02:43, 10:06/mi and finishing 20 of 120 in age group (F40-49), 108 of 498 in gender, and 219 of 772 overall. Soon she’ll have to start her own blog and talk about how she is quickly catching up to me.

Next up for me the Henderson Hall Ooh Rah Run Series Iwo Jima Memorial 7K, on Wednesday!!!!! I have posted on this one in the past, it's one of my favorite runs and since I haven't been running at Henderson Hall much since I moved to working at the Navy Yard, it will be a treat.

Time for the Historic Half

Well, next up the Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon.  I have never been able to go fast on the course. The hill at mile ten mile mark might have something to with it.

 I ran the inaugural race in 2008, and then went back in 20009 and 2010. I was 55lbs heavier then so ….I am shooting for a sub 8mi/mi which would be a PR on the course (1:57:54) and a PR on the Half (1:49:39).

Bobbi is doing the 10K, which also includes the hill…she does not like hills but I know she will do great.

 

 

The girls will be volunteering at the Team Semper Fi tent …

Thanks to all who have donated, now am up to $650. So I won't racing this one in a kilt. Need $100 more for the next race to be kilted. But you can make that happen by checking out my funraising page:  http://fundraising.semperfifund.org/TKORuns

Updates after the race.

LCCM Du....May the 4th be me!

So a funny thing happened on the way to the finish line....

Let me start off be saying how much I enjoyed this Du.  The Lebanon County Christian Ministry put on its 3rd annual event in the heart of the Lebanon Valley and partially in the South Mountains near Cornwall, PA. It was a very stacked field on a technical course.

The first run a 5K on a bike and jogging path around the VA Hospital campus...not hard a slight uphill for about a mile of the
three but not bad. I ran a 22:38 or 7:43 per mile... I was shooting for a sub 7:30 but was happy cause I was 16th after the run.

I was slow through transition mainly cause I was adding layers, because it was  still only 45ºF at the start.

The bike was fun. A lot of rollers and technical turns with a daunting hill at mile 4. It is actually a rated a CAT 4.  That is when things got funny....

As I approached the climb I saw cyclist off his bike and bent over. I asked if he was ok and he said "NO." Right away I stopped and turned around, got off my bike and went over to him. I asked what was wrong, thinking he was hurt and I would either call or go back about 1/2  mile, where I saw the last race official and ask for help.

It was at this point he said he had flat and didn't know how to change it...really...really...No, just No dude! Not helping you change a flat...Bike race 101!!!!

I got back on the bike and as soon as I started I dropped the chain....Ugh!

I fixed my chain as 6 or so other riders went by and from a dead stop started up the CAT 4.  The rest of bike was uneventful and kind of fun especially heading down the other side of the mountain.

I finished the 12.8 mile bike course in 44:28 or 17mph, but now 31st...I pretty sure I lost 3 or more minutes helping a unprepared rider.

Second transition was slow peeling off layers and being generally
upset with the situation.  I ran well and was shooting for a sub 8, ran it in 25:26 which is 8:12/mile. Finishing with a time of 1:36:23. 32 of 99 Overall and 6th in my stacked age group.

I had my awesome support group there but I'm sure it was the dark side that tried to stop me before the hill....

Hagerstown Duathlon

That was a crazy race. So the Hagerstown Du is a 2 mile run, a 10 Mile bike and then 3.1 mile run.  The temperature at race time was 44º F and the wind gusting out of the West up to 25 mph.

Bobbi and I arrived way too early as usual. So we relaxed in car till race time. Start time wasn't till 9:30 am.

The first run was fast and into the wind for most of the run, despite that iImanaged a 7:03 per mile.  I was shooting for sub 7, came really close.

Transition was slow because I added a layer for the wind and I am glad I did. The route took us S for four miles, so we got cross wind, then NW for a mile or so into the wind, then North for another 4 miles with cross wind and then finally some relief with a Western trek for a mile back to transition. Despite all that I managed 17.1 mph, not many racers were above 20 mph.

Transition was slow as I peeled off all my layers and finally got a some liquid before heading out on run #2.  It was a 3.1 mile basically on the same trek as the first run with just a little extra, which meant more wind.  I did a 8:02/mi I was shooting for sub 8's.

For an overall time of 1:15:53...48th of 149 overall... and surprisingly 1st in my age group (M 45-49).

All-in-all, despite the cold and wind a good day.  I guess running all winter in the cold paid off.


 

Boston

From the Whisman Clan, our thoughts and Prayers to my fellow runners and their families!

KIMM in a KILT!

Kent Island Metric Marathon (26.2k or 16.24 mi) in the books. 2:23:13 (8:47/mi) a little slower than i wanted but happy with the run in the KILT! (20 of 79 overall, 6 of 18 M40-49.

Next up Hagerstown Duathlon (2.1 mi Run/ 10 Mile Bike/ 3.1mi Run) Saturday.


More $ raised for Team Semper Fi Fund

http://fundraising.semperfifund.org/TKORuns

Cheery Pit 10 Miler in a KILT!

Cherry Pit 10 Miler in the books...nice and easy 8min/mile pace ....listening to Coldplay for 10 mellow miles...I even ran into one of my donors, Elisa Velarde, Thank, girl...Next race, next week, Kent Island Island Metric Marathon (26.2K or 16.25Miles) in the KILT! 

http://fundraising.semperfifund.org/TKORuns

East Springfield 7

Ran twice while in Ohio for an Easter weekend visit.

The first run was with Bobbi and she rocked it...it is a very hilly course and it was only 29F when we started....

The second run was exactlly what I was wanting to do run 8:00 min/mile and I did. I added the elevation here as well....

I'm ready for the Cherry Pit 10 Miler on Sunday...in a KILT....

Check out http://fundraising.semperfifund.org/TKORuns

17.75K Complete

17.75K in the books
Chilly and Hilly
1:32:17
270th of 2177
208 of 1099 Men
32 of 186 M 45-49

And a golden ticket for the MCM in which I am registered for.

Sponsor me in my next race the Cherry Pit  10 Miler on 7 April....
http://fundraising.semperfifund.org/TKORuns

I now have funding raising page:

http://fundraising.semperfifund.org/TKORuns

Team Semper Fi

I wanted to send out my Good Luck to you for your race this weekend!  I hope you have a chance to take a deep breath in, take in the surroundings, the cheering, and realize the rime and energy you put in to preparing for the race.  I hope you feel all of our injured servicemembers whom your fundraising will be/has helped routing for you and sending out our thanks.  We all appreciate your help…

Good luck and hope when you are done with your race, have a time to recover that you shoot me an email saying how it went…I’d love to hear and share it with all the other members of Team Semper Fi.

Corey Petersen

Community Athlete Coordinator

The Semper Fi Fund

www.SemperFiFund.org

It is Spring...well sort of

It is Spring...well sort of...that was cold race and I have another this weekend...

Here is are  results from my first event...

The St. Patrick's Du was on the 16th in Hampstead, MD (also know as the middle of know where...I ran a pretty fast first 5K and a slow 11 Mile Bike only 13 mph in the cold, wind, and snow by the end of the bike, the second run a 2.1 mile was little slow but I finished 3rd in my age group...

However, as the following states I have this attitude toward most of my races...

Next race is the Marine Corps 17.75K (11/03 miles) in Quantico, VA on Saturday...