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Why do you run?
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Fitness and Fun.
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Describe your best
marathon memory.
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I come from a running
family. My best memories from running marathons with family. I've run
marathons with my wife, sister-in-law, 3 brothers, and my son.
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Why do you pace?
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I grew up in a large family
with 9 siblings and competition was introduced at a very young
age. I challenge myself to run every mile on goal pace. No banking
time and no sprints at the end to hit the numbers. My goal is to run
every marathon with a negative split of 1 second. First half right on and the
2nd half 1 second faster.
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Tell us your best
pacing experience.
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I drove 6 hours the
morning of Hartford Marathon, paced 3:20 with an actual 3:19:59. Drove
to Albany immediately after to 3:30 pace lead the Mohawk Hudson with an
actual finish of 3:29:44. This was my 3rd weekend in a row of
marathon doubles.
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someone run in your pace group?
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My number one goal is to help
the group. Each mile I shout out the actual mile splits so that
everyone is on the same page. Many people use GPS watches and I do as well
for reference. As an experienced pacer I have found GPS watches have their
issues. As an old school runner I will always give splits for each mile run and
reference GPS calculated pace for a given mile.
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Any tips for
runners about to join your group?
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Run the tangents, run
TALL and have fun.
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Anything else you'd like to share?
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l alternated running and biking 500
miles with my son Hogan over 10-day period in May. I averaged 35
miles of running and 15 miles of biking per day with the start of each day a
full marathon. This was a fundraise event to help kids with
disabilities attend summer camp.
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