Favorite spectator sport: I used to like baseball, basketball and football. Then the money took over, followed by the performance enhancing drugs and the brawls. I find little redeeming value in any of these sports now.
Favorite game: Whatever Bart wants to play
Favorite vacation destination: Oregon coast.
Favorite time of day: Early morning or late night
Favorite item of clothing you own: A blue cap with "Miles embroidered on the back
Most prized possession: Miles' dog tag. Sure as hell isn't my health!
Personal philosophy: Life is short. Try to enjoy every moment. ALWAYS be in the moment.
Achievement of which you are most proud: Having the K-State Vet Hospital Teaching Fund named after Miles.
Favorite subject in school: English and accounting
Least-liked subject: Science
Least-liked household chore: Any
Pets: Maggie (Pekepoo) and Bart (Australian Shepherd and my new training partner)
Pet peeve: Long list - smoking, cell phones, people who can't follow rules…
Favorite nonrunning leisure activity: reading, music, rebuilding my cabin
Greatest fear: I've already faced one - losing Miles. Losing Shannon and not being able to run.
Happiest memory: Meeting Shannon
Secret ambition/fantasy: An unsupported run of all the major trails in the U.S.
Personal strengths: persistence and organizational skills
Personal weaknesses: stubbornness and lack of organizational skills
Years running: 27
PRs: 2 miles - 9:50; 5K - 15:22; 5 miles - 25:52; 10K - 32:24; 10 miles - 53:33; 13.1 miles - 1:12:24; Marathon - 2:31:28; 50K - 3:57:37; 50 miles - 7:25:10; 100K - 9:18:01; 100 miles - 18:50:13; 24 hours - 114.25 miles; Miles in a year - 3,583
Years running ultras: 6
Number of ultras finished: 35
Best ultra performance: 9:18:01 100K (Ad Astra) and 114.25 24-hour (Equalizer)
Most memorable ultra performance: 2003 Equalizer 24-hour. I set a PR and a course record only to return home to find out that my training partner, Miles, had lymphoma. About as high and low as I have been in a short period of time.
Typical training week: 40-45 if not training for a race; as much 110 if race in sight
Injuries: Interstitial Cystitis (chronic inflammation of bladder); plantar fasciites; couple of sinus infections per year.
Favorite ultra(s): Rockin' K - great trail and the best cookies!
Favorite running shoes: Changes as fast as the models change
Favorite food/drinks during an ultra: Whatever I can stomach
Favorite handler: Shannon
Favorite place to run: Randolph; Kanopolis and any wilderness area that we can find a trail
Favorite type of running surface: trail
Ultrarunning idol(s): Pat McKenzie because he encouraged me to start training again; Phil Sheridan because he was the first ultrarunner to encourage me; Miles, my departed golden retriever, because he helped me to get there.
Why do you run ultras? For the challenge, the opportunity to run in spectacular places, the chance to meet and associate with wonderful people
Short-term goal: Drop a few pounds and find a good groove again
Long-term goal: Still be slogging trails with a good dog 40 years from nowFavorite ultra quote(s): "... Perhaps the genius of ultrarunning is its supreme lack of utility. It makes no sense in a world of space ships and supercomputers to run vast distances on foot. There is no money in it and no fame, frequently not even the approval of peers. But as poets, apostles and philosophers have insisted from the dawn of time, there is more to life than logic and common sense. The ultra runners know this instinctively. And they know something else that is lost on the sedentary. They understand, perhaps better than anyone, that the doors to the spirit will swing open with physical effort. In running such long and taxing distances they answer a call from the deepest realms of their being -- a call that asks who they are ..." -- David Blaikie
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