Saturday, December 6, 2025

Marathon #174: Rehoboth Seashore Marathon, DE

3:54 finish, 360/980 place overall. Nice race through residential areas and a state park along the southern Delaware coast. Good weather and flat course. A little slower than usual for this race, but still under four hours.

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Upcoming Marathons

2/21/26: Marathon #175 (country #35): Lost City Marathon, Palenque, Mexico

4/5/26: Marathon #176 (country #36): Runtalya Marathon, Antalya, Turkey

5/3/26: Marathon #177: Colorado Marathon, Fort Collins, CO

6/20/26: Marathon #178 (second round state #44): Grandma's Marathon, Duluth, MN

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Marathon #173 (second round state #43): Honoring our Heroes Marathon, Rolla, MO

3:57 finish, 11/90 place overall. Small rural race on the edge of the Ozarks in southern Missouri, about an hour and a half southwest of St. Louis. Nothing spectacular, but it’s a friendly small-town race that supports local veterans, which is nice. Fairly hilly course and unseasonably warm, making for a very slow pace in the final miles with a long relentless uphill into the finish area. Still squeaked by just under four hours - not needed for the state, but always a goal anyway when possible.


Saturday, October 11, 2025

Marathon #172 (sub-four state #46, second round state #42): Rogue Marathon, Medford, OR

3:47 finish, 71/176 place overall. Fairly scenic rural marathon in the mountains of southwestern Oregon, about four hours south of Portland near the California border. It starts in a remote park near Ashland and runs along country roads and bike paths to the finish in downtown Medford. The course has an overall elevation drop which, combined with ideal cool weather, helped me get a decent sub-four finish as needed for the state.

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Marathon #171 / Ultramarathon #3: Old Forge 50K, NY

5:35 finish, 15/37 place overall. This was a 50K (31.1 miles), the shortest ultramarathon distance - about five miles longer than a marathon - and only my third time going beyond 26.2. It’s a scenic but fairly tough, hilly course in the southwestern Adirondacks running mostly on dirt paths that are used for snowmobiles in the winter. It was significantly harder and slower than my only other 50K in 2018, but nothing close to the 55K earlier this year that was only three miles longer but over two hours slower.

Race map and details