workout log

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.