Location: Centreville,VA,US Member Since: Mar 31, 2010 Gender: Male Goal Type: Boston Qualifier Running Accomplishments:
Marine Corp Marathon 2010: 4:45:xx
Disney marathon 2010 5:17:02
National half marathon 2009 2:00:12 Short-Term Running Goals: marathon in under 5 hrs. Signed up for Marine Corp Marathon Oct 2010
half marathon in under 1 hr 45 minutes.
10 mi in under 1 hr 25 minutes. Signed up for Army 10 miler Oct 2010.
Doing a 100 KM hike on May 1st: One Day Hike. Goal is to finish it.
failed to finish the 100K in 2010 but was the last one to finish in 2011: about 20 minutes past the cutoff time of 21 hrs.
Long-Term Running Goals: Qualify for Boston marathon. Run the Bull Run Run 50 miler, and Masanutten 100 miler, climb several mtns over 6000m. Personal: Started running and hiking in 2004 to control type II diabetes. Mostly hiking. Climbed Mt. Rainier last year. Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in June this year and planning a trip to Aconcagua next year.
Successfully climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro via the Uhmbwe route. Failed to summit Mt. Aconcagua in 2010. Got upto camp 2. Attempting again in 2011-12. Successfully climbed Aconcagua solo on Feb 20?, 2012. Attempted Denali and successfully summitted solo on June 28th, 2012. Attempted Peak Lenin in August 2013 but failed, made it camp 4 (last camp, 6500m). Goal now is to finish all the 5 Snow leopard peaks. Leading a group to Denali in June 2016. Have to see how I do as a group leader. I do well Solo, not sure about leading
Also haven't trained much. Coming back to this blog after a gap of atleast 4 years. | 