Golden Gate Headlands Marathon

Date: 2026-04-04
Location: San Francisco, CA
Finish Time: 5:36:26
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Multiple pop-culture photo ops (Top Gun, 90210, Back to the Future)
• Various domestic and wild animal sightings (cats, whales, dolphins, ostriches, otters)
• So many great places to force my family to walk arround (Carlsbad Flower Fields, Universal Studios, Hollywood Hills, Hermosa Beach, Solvang, Pismo Beach, Pinnacles National Park, Big Sur, Carmel, Monterey, Marin Headlands)

Low-lights:

• Various traffic jams
• Found out they are tearing down the 90210 beach house this summer
• So old and slow

Thanks:

• To Shannon, Luke and Dylan for participating in yet another roadtrip-based, hike / walk heavy, marathon adjacent vacation.

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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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