New York City Marathon (2025)

Date: 2025-11-02
Location: New York, NY
Finish Time: 4:20:36
Race Website

Highlights:

• All of it, its the best running day of the year

Low-lights:

• Pretty much none, its the best running day of the year

Thanks:

• To Shannon for “letting” me run even though she was laid up on the couch recovering from ACL surgery
• To Pugh for continuing to hold down that corner of 81st and 1st
• To Ryan, who knows what he did

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Ragnar – Bourbon Chase

Date: 2025-10-03
Location: Lexington, KY
Finish Time: 33:46:46
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• First Ragnar in over 5 years
• Bourbon, Burgers and Beers
• Re-united with fellow Mile Square Running Club member, Paul Oldakowski for our first run together in about 10 years.

Low-lights:

• Leg 8 questionably marked, almost lost our runner as their 10 mile leg turned into a 13.5 mile leg

Thanks:

• To Paul for the invite.  Why, yes, I would like to fly to Louisville to run a bunch of miles and drink a bunch of bourbon.
• To the rest of the Full Proof Isotopes for welcoming me to the team
• To Shannon for once again letting me skip town for a few days to do something stupid

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Fox Cities Marathon

Date: 2025-09-21
Location: Appleton, WI
Finish Time: 4:16:37
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Got to see 2 of 4 members of REM (Peter Buck and Mike Mills) sing about baseball
• Got to play Whistling Straits, which might be my all time favorite golf course
• Rain held off on race day so we had ideal weather for slowly running around Wisconsin

Low-lights:

• The quality of the Chicago White Sox baseball and food
• Still not very good at golf
• Still not getting any faster at marathons

Thanks:

• To Shannon for letting me tack a few extra days onto a work trip so I could play golf and run a marathon
• To Brian for tacking on a few extra days to his work trip so I didn’t have to play terrible golf alone

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Hawaii Kai Ultra Run XTreme

Date: 2025-07-27
Location: Honolulu, HI
Finish Time: 4:51:00
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Played some fantastic golf courses (Torrey Pines North and South, Royal Hawaiian, Kapalua Bay and Plantation) with some pretty fantastic people.
• So much time for activities (Hiking, hiking, hiking, National Park hiking, ziplining, cliff diving, sailing, floating, boat jumping)
• These “cousins” hardly need any supervision these days

Low-lights:

• Hot, humid and hilly run coupled with a 45 year old body…4:51 finish.
• Experienced our first tsunami warning
• Still don’t totally understand the facination with Raining Cane’s Chicken

Thanks:

• To Shannon, Luke and Dylan for more reasons than I can possibly list here
• To Marge and Bill for all their support over the years
• To the Brian, Annemarie, Fiona and Sabrina, and Leigh and Andrew for making it all the way out to Hawaii for state number 50

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Teton Dam Marathon

Date: 2025-06-07
Location: Rexburg, ID
Finish Time: 4:01:55
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Sunrise and sunset photo hikes in Grand Teton National Park
• Post work, afternoon hikes in Yellowstone National Park (West Thumb Geyser Basin, Grand Prismatic, Fairy Falls) and Grand Teton National Park (Taggart / Bradley Lake, Leigh / String Lake and Cascade Canyon) Saw moose, buffalo, elk and marmot.  Was not mauled by the one bear I came across.
• Managed the high altitude course without issue, was rewarded with Star Wars themed chocolate milk at the finish line and awarded a hat and some socks as the second fastest old man.

Low-lights:

• Not many.  Some trails were closed, some people hike slowly and four wide across the trail.

Thanks:

• To Shannon for letting me run away for a week of remote “work”
• To Ampersand for promoting the concept of summer remote weeks

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Date: 2025-04-27
Location: Jim Thorpe, PA
Finish Time: 3:52:57
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Beautiful day for a run
• Beautiful rail trail course along the Lehigh River
• Home in time for the 3:30 pm Devils game

Low-lights:

• Old and slow and not in very good shape
• Devils stink

Thanks:

• To Shannon, Luke and Dylan for letting me run away for a few hours

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ChesCo Festival of Races

Date: 2025-03-09
Location: Wayne, PA
Finish Time: 3:49:43
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Beautiful day for a run
• Looped course, ample opportunity for GU and Gatorade, no need to carry anything
• Conveniently located event, home and on the couch by 3pm

Low-lights:

• Loop 20, not the best

Thanks:

• To Shannon, Luke and Dylan for letting me run away for a few hours

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Jekyll Island Marathon

Date: 2025-01-19
Location: Atlanta, GA
Finish Time:  3:54:04
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Beautiful, flat course with no rain during the race
• Relaxing, kid-free long weekend
• Jekyll Island sites (historic district, driftwood beach, sea turtle center)

Low-lights:

• Warmer than New Jersey, but still cold

Thanks:

• To John and Peg for watching the Luke, Dylan and Brody
• To Luke, Dylan and Brody for not even noticing we were gone
• To Shannon for supporting another marathon-centric getaway

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