RUNNING BACKGROUND:
5K personal PR: 21:15, Mississippi Mudd's 5K, 8/18/2007
Half marathon personal PR: 1:43:34, Erie Half Marathon, 09/18/2011
First race: St. Gregory the Great 'The Great Race' 5K, 29:04, overall - 533/814, age group (45 - 49) - 78/99
Last race: Shamrock Run 8K, 42:18, overall - 629/3929, age group (65 - 69) - 14/88
First year of running: total number of races - 30, total ran - 1
Last year of running (2019*): total number of races - 510, total ran - 2
Most races ran in a year - 2008, 40
Total: number of races ran - 391, miles ran - 1,382.36, amount of money spent on races (includes Steph) - at least $11,868, number of running shoes - countless, beers,
hot dogs and pizza consumed - enough, fbombs dropped - indetermined
Checkers Board member - 2008 to 2012
* last full year before pandemic
WHY/WHO GOT YOU TO JOIN CHECKERS?
The wife...because I got fat!
HOW YOU GOT INVOLVED IN THE SPECIAL TASK YOU PERFORM FOR OUR CLUB?
At a board meeting, they were looking for volunteers to man the Facebook page and I just stuck my hand up. And the rest became (and still is) history.
WHAT WOULD YOU TELL A NEW RUNNER WHO IS THINKING OF JOINING CHECKERS?
Awesome people, awesome races, awesome beer!
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