About
Follow me as I explore the world via my two feet and see what stories I have to share along the way!
My Story
Born in 1981 (you do the math!), I began running in Junior High in southern Ohio. I wanted to go out for a team that you didn’t get cut from! I raced in the sprint distances. The first meet of my high school career the coach threw me into the 800 (we only ran that far as a jog in warm-ups). He said something about my body style (tall and lean) was built better for the longer stuff than sprinting! I ran 3 years, skipping my Junior year to work. I ended up focusing on the 800 and mile, my fastest 800 was 2:12 and I don’t remember my mile. My High School didn’t have a cross-country program.
When I went to Taylor University (99-03), in Indiana, I knew to be competitive in track I would have to run cross-country, so I joined the team. I logged a gazillion miles and now looking back wish I had kept better track of my mileage. My fastest 8K was in the 30 minute range, so nothing amazing for collegiate runners, but I did finish with a 2:00 800 PR and a :53 400. I don’t really remember racing much at other distances so I don’t recall those times.
After Taylor, I pursued my MSW at Monmouth University on the Jersey Shore and ran with a club some in the fall. I was unable to run most of 2004 due to major surgery, but began running heavily again when I moved back to Indiana in the fall and got involved with the Anderson Road Runners. I ran and raced for 3 years around central Indiana.
The other half of Team Cross is my beautiful wife. Wonderfully married since 2006 we are taking some exciting journeys. I and most of my running friends have been trying to get her to run ever since! We have done runs where she’ll bike or rollerblade while I grind out the miles on my feet! Stay tuned as I persuade her to take up a wonderful sport!
Current Running Goals
5K - sub 18:00
10K - sub 40:00
Half-Marathon - sub 1:30
Marathon - 3:10 (Boston Qualifying)
My Blog Story
I have been blogging since March 2006, I began on Myspace and soon added a blogger account and began regular blogging about my life! In May of 2007 I started posting comments about the races I had run over the weekend and soon got the idea for Run Central Indiana, which became a resource for local runners, in addition to content for all, about upcoming races, race results, and race reviews. That site really took off and being unemployed at the time I had lots of time and energy to devote to making it an awesome site. My readership grew and a post about the 2007 Chicago Marathon drew over 500 readers. That was all fine and dandy until I got a job and we left Indiana! That’s when this site was born, it will be similar to RCI in that it will have great content and race reviews, but will lack the local flare of upcoming races and race results. I’m sure this blog will evolve just like the other ones have and looking back at some of my first content it is amazing to see the transformation! Read my welcome message, welcoming my former Run Central Indiana readers.
