Over the last 10 years I've run 55 marathons-- For five of the last six years I was a member of the Air Force Marathon team competing at Marine Corps Marathon.  Our Air Force team won the competition with the other services.On March 5th, 2000 one month shy of my 45th birthday, at the Napa Valley Marathon I finished 6th overall and 2nd masters, running a Personal Best time of 2:36:19. 

November of last year in the Seattle Marathon I was 9th overall and the first masters finisher; October 24th I ran the Marine Corps Marathon in our nation's capitol as part of the USAF marathon team, placing 21st overall in 2:40:35; September 18th I ran the US Air Force marathon on the USAF Academy team at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio placing 6th overall and 2nd masters (over 40) in 2:37:37; August 11th I ran a marathon in Zagreb, Croatia as a member of the U.S. team in the World Military Games. My time there was 2:37:43. A photo gallery of that trip. The second photo gallery.

June 27th, 1999 I ran the Fila Sky Marathon in Aspen Colorado. The experience was in a word "sublime". With an average elevation of 11,000 feet, we twice reached 13,000 feet in the race, all on trails. May 29, 1999 I won the High Plains Marathon in Goodland, KS. April 11th I took second in the Fayetteville, Arkansas "Hogeye Marathon". March 7th I finished fourth in the Fort Sam Houston Army Medcom Marathon in San Antonio, TX. That makes eight marathons all together for 1999.

In '98 I ran Ocean State Marathon in Rhode Island in early November, the National Capital Marathon in Ottawa, Canada where I placed 11th overall in 2:44, the Shamrock Marathon in Virginia Beach, VA, the AF Marathon where I placed 8th in 2:45, and Oct 26th I travelled to Washington D.C. to compete on an Air Force team in the Marine Corps Marathon. Our Air Force team won the first annual Armed Forces Marathon Championship easily with the 3rd, 4th (me, 15th overall in 2:40:01), 7th, and 8th places in the men's race. One of our women, Major Kim Markland, won the race outright with the outstanding time of 2:49.

In 1997 I ran the Philadelphia Marathon in 2:38, placing 14th, the Vermont City Marathon in Burlington, the US Air Force Marathon in Dayton, Ohio, (where I won the master's category) (My trip report) and the Hartford Marathon in Connecticut.

Our military relay team of 16 Canadians and one (me) American placed 2nd in the Tour de France style stage race, the Cape Breton "Cabot Trail Relay", (<--Trip Report with photos) May 23-24, 1998. Joyce Switzer and Lynne Bernel set the course record for women on their legs and I (as modest as can be) won leg four over "Cape Smokey". 

Two of my "projects" are to climb the highest point (33 so far) in all fifty states and provinces, and to run a marathon (24) in same.