2025 Race Schedule

Calendar and Results

1/19: Naples Half Marathon (Naples, FL)
2:06:35 (9:39/mile)
Age Group: 4th, Overall: 693rd
I was concerned last year when I ran 4 minutes slower than the previous year. This year I ran a half hour slower than last year! That’s more than two minutes per mile slower. I would have never dreamed that I could lose so much speed so fast without an injury. Over-training syndrome is fully engaged.

1/25: The Itch 50k (Ocala, FL)
7:55:00 (15:17/mile)
Overall: 4th! (of five!)
Very nice low key event. but sparsely attended this year. Mostly single track. Always scenic point-to-point course. This is my fourth year in a row running this race with my friends from Stoked Oats.

2/8: Mesa Marathon (Mesa, AZ)
4:41:51 (10:45/mile)
Age Group: 1st, Overall: 2325th
Wow, I was slow! Oh, well. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the beauty of the course to distract me. After the first six miles or so it was dreary. Endless straightaways on soul-less, dead flat roads.

3/2: Tokyo Marathon (Japan)
4:26:13 (10:09/mile)
Age Group: 9th of 92, Overall: 13858th of 36317
This was my sixth star in the Marathon Majors series. I have won my age group at least once in the other five, but I came up way short here.

4/4-11: Arizona Monster 300
A 304-mile point to point trail race, primarily on the Arizona Trail. It was great while it lasted. Despite everything going against me, I made it to mile 148 before dropping. Dead legs, bad knees, no training - I’m truly amazed I made it that far. In three and a half days, I only got 3 hours of sleep. Once again, I was done in by not being able to keep enough ahead of the cutoffs to get adequate sleep.

4/21: Boston Marathon
4:31:16 (10:09/mile)
Age Group: 19th of 52, Overall: 24124th of 32170
One and a half weeks after a 300-miler? My legs were completely dead. So dead, that I’ll be taking at least a year off from training and racing. I’ll do the Hood To Coast in August because of the prior commitment, but I don’t expect I’ll be much good.

5/23-28: Adventure Runs (AZ, UT)
Six days of adventure runs with about a dozen friends.
23: Grand Canyon, Rim to Rim to Rim (Rim to River to Rim for some of us)
24: White Pocket in Vermillion Cliffs
25: Bryce Canyon
26: Peek-A-Boo and Spooky slot canyons
27: Zion - Angels Landing
28: Yant Flats on the way back to Las Vegas

Great fun! One member of the group made the full rim-to-rim-to rim experience, while the rest of us settled for the 28-mile jaunt from the North Rim to the river and back.

White Pocket is amazing! Rent a 4WD high clearance vehicle and go see it!

Bryce Canyon was amazing like always.

The slot canyons were a lot harder than when I did them with my daughters a few years ago. The ravages of age.

Angels Landing was harder, too, and the last time I did it, it was covered in ice.

Yant Flats is an unknown gem.

8/23-24: Hood To Coast Relay (OR)
A 12-person team of septuagenarians (six men, six women). We’ll be attempting to win the 60+ coed division.

You may have noticed that nothing much is happening after May. I’m taking a sabbatical from racing to rest up for the upcoming M80 age group in 2028.