Going through the races

Well I would honestly love to have my races from high school to motivate me and remind me of how well I use to race, perhaps even to motivate my offspring to run faster than me. But not happening. I would even like to have the results from races run at school, but again not happening. Part of being disorganized, and moving too much (hence no logs). Maybe I can make that a better part of their life if they decide to enter this journey we call running.

So I will go to one of the events that changed my outlook of my life. I ran the Gate River Run 15K in Jacksonville, Florida in 2006. Prior to that had just moved to the area and started my first assignment in the Navy. Needless to say my life was pretty depressing with an empty apartment and a fridge full of liqour being the only things to look forward to. It was the beginning of better things to come.

2006
Gate River Run 15K - 1:18:18 (8:25 pace)
St. Patty's Day 10K (Only 8 days later) - 47:14 (7:36 pace)
Memorial Day 5K (May 29th) - 21:50 (7:02 pace)
Children's Way 5K (Sept 26th) - 22:11 (7:08 pace)
Native Sun Mandarin 10K (Nov 4th) - 43:53 (7:05 pace)
Stop the Violence 5K (Nov 18th) - 20:33 (6:37 pace)
Jacksonville Bank Half-Marathon (Dec 17th) - 1:52:50 (8:39 pace)

2007
Museum of Aviation Foundation Marathon (Jan 13) - 4:21:46 (9:58 pace)
I didn't train for this one and just decided to do it along with James and Stephanie...DUMB!

The rest of 2007 I spent on surge deployment, moving to Japan, deploying again, doing a hash, which I was too drunk to remember my time not that it mattered if you know anything about a hash and then we had little Mark in 2008.

2008
I did two local MWR races in Japan but no results from them although I know they were not the best of times.

We then moved from Japan to Washington. I didn't run any races in Washington either that year.

2009
Running of the Bulls (Apr 11) - 21:24 (6:53 pace)
Morgan Hill Mardi Gras Mushroom 5K (May 23) - 20:57 (6:44 pace)
Henry Coe State Park 10K (June 13) - 48:49 (7:52 pace)

This is definitely showing me that I have more in me if I were to train better. I am glad I did this tonight.

Well until the next time, just keep kicking.