As I much as I enjoyed putting the images of my running year together with captions for each, I equally enjoyed crunching the numbers from my season as well. Being an engineer, numbers are like candy for me; I can never get enough of them!
Thanks for all of those who made it possible for the numbers to exist; my wife Laura, my dogs Sirius and Fiina, my sponsors inov-8 and Fleet Feet, my friends (you know who you are) and countless others.
I look forward to an even faster and more adventurous 2010.
My Best Performances
Racing- 2nd Overall Dizzy Fifties 50km, 6th fastest time ever on the course (3:53:15) and 149th fastest 50km time in the USA in 2009
- 2nd Overall Chattanooga Mountains Stage Race (22/18/20M = 60M)
- 1st Overall Bartlett Park 50k, course record (4:07:10)
- 2nd Overall McKay Hollow 1/2 Marathon (1:51:51)
- 1st Overall Delano 50k, course record (3:53:54)
- Sub 3 hour Boston Marathon (2:56:17)
- 6th Overall Mountain Mist 4:32:15
- 39 Races
- 10 Ultra Marathons
- 2 Marathons
- 550 miles of racing
- 34 Times in the top 10 overall
- 27 Times in the top 5 overall
- 17 Times in the top 3 overall
- 4 overall wins
Personal Records
- 2 Mile at Winter Winds February 10:48
- 15km at Monte Sano 15km October 55:40
- 50km Mountain Mist 50km 4:32:15 (1st time)
- 50km Black Warrior 50km 4:15:27 (2nd time)
- 50km Delano Park 50km 3:53:54 (3rd time)
- 50km Dizzy Fifities 50km 3:53:15 (4th time)
- 50M Mountain Massochist 52M 8:29:24
- Hit 4,116 miles in a 365 day period on September 20 (3857 miles in 2009 calendar year)
- Ran 15,000th career mile on October 24
- Ran in 20 U.S. states (Alabama, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Washington, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Connecticut, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Washington DC, Virginia, New Hampshire, Georgia, Mississippi, Vermont, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota)
- 2nd Overall HTC Gran Prix Open Male
- Zero (0) rest days
- Coaching Fleet Feet Mizuno half marathon program
- Managing Fleet Feet Racing Team
- Run Across Alabama
- Earned spot on inov-8 ultrarunning Race Team