| Date | Distance | Time | Pace | Comments | Total Half Marathons: | 27 | Negative Splits: | 7 | Long Beach | Surf City |
| 2008 Feb 03 | 13.10 | 2:06:34 | 0:09:40 | 2008 Surf City Half Marathon (My first HM) | 11 | 9 | ||||
| 2008 Oct 31 | 13.10 | 1:49:04 | 0:08:20 | 2008
Disneyland® Half Marathon Overall Place 680 / 10849 Gender Place 544 / 4442 Division Place 103 / 749 Age Grade 54.7% 5K split 27:44 8:57 pace 10K split 53:25 8:37 pace 15K split 1:19:49 8:35 pace |
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| 2008 Dec 07 | 13.10 | 1:41:34 | 0:07:45 | 2008
CityofAngels Half Marathon Overall: 399 out of 6210 Men: 349 out of 3154 M 35-39: 44 out of 272 Age/Grade: 58.76% Place: 873 Finish: 1:41:34 Pace: 7:45 Tag Time: 1:41:34 Gun Time: 1:42:55 |
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| 2009 Feb 01 | 13.10 | 1:40:56 | 0:07:42 | 2009
Surf City Half Marathon Overall: 648 out of 10716 Men: 504 out of 4224 M 35-39: 98 out of 692 Age/Grade: 59.12% Place: 1642 Finish: 1:40:56 Pace: 7:42 Tag Time: 1:40:56 Gun Time: 1:41:41 3 mile split 23:57 7:59 pace 8.2 mile split 1:04:10 7:50 pace |
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| 2009 Oct 11 | 13.10 | 1:41:47 | 0:07:46 | 25th
Long Beach Int'l Half Marathon (ran on approx 4.5 hrs sleep) Bib: 6955 Emil De La Cruz M 35-39 Overall: 472 out of 10675 Sex: 388 out of 4255 Division: 59 out of 657 10K Split: 0:48:25 Pace: 7:48 Finish : 1:41:47 Pace: 7:46 |
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| 2010 Jul 25 | 13.10 | 1:45:39 | 0:08:04 | San
Francisco Half-Marathon 2010: (Very hilly course!) Chip Time 01:45:39 Overall Place 424 out of 8394 Gender Place 347 out of 3405 Division Place 122 out of 1204 Age Grade: 57.08% Place: 1037 Pace 8:04 · First 7.6 Miles @ 01:03:12 Pace: 8:19 · Last 5.5 Miles @ 00:42:27 Pace: 7:43 · My Garmin GPS Time: 13.29mi @1:46:04 Pace 7:59 |
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| 2010 Feb 07 | 13.51 | 2:10:25 | 0:09:39 | Surf
City Half-Marathon, training run with
Jerry (We were both barely recovering from recent injuries) |
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| 2011 May 01 | 13.10 | 1:37:51 | 0:07:28 | 2011 OC Half-Marathon
(Negative split!) Overall: 220 out of 6561 Men: 177 out of 2586 M 35-39: 29 out of 383 Age/Grade: 62.08% Place: 543 Finish: 1:37:51 Pace: 7:28 Tag Time: 1:37:51 Gun Time: 1:46:11 Split Times: 5 Km: 23:23 Pace: 7:32 7 mi: 52:53 Pace: 7:33 | Last 6.1 mi: 44:55 Pace: 7:29 (negative split) 10 Mi: 1:15:23 Pace: 7:33 11 mi: 1:22:47 Pace: 7:32 Garmin Splits: 1 @ 8:09 8 @ 07:39 (8mi in 1:00:50, 7:36 pace) 2 @ 6:55 9 @ 07:24 3 @ 7:17 10 @ 07:23 4 @ 7:37 11 @ 07:26 5 @ 07:16 12 @ 07:20 6 @ 07:36 13.1 @ 06:59 (Last 5.1mi in 37:01, 7:15 pace) 7 @ 07:54 |
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| 2011 May 14 | 13.10 | 1:39:57 | 0:07:38 | 2011
Palos Verdes Half-Marathon (approx 957 ft elevation gain) Overall: 60 out of 1013 Men: 55 out of 460 M 35-39: 12 out of 68 Finish: 1:39:57 Pace: 7:38 (1st time I beat all WOMEN in my age group 35-39) Negative Split!: • First 7mi in 53:54 @ 7:41 ave pace • Last 6.18mii in 46:02 @ 7:27 ave pace My Garmin pace Splits: 1 @ 8:15 8 @ 07:35 (First 8mi in 1:01:39 @ 7:42 ave pace) 2 @ 7:41 9 to 10 @ 07:27 3 @ 7:24 11 @ 08:00 4 @ 7:29 12 @ 07:19 5 @ 07:31 13.1 @ 06:55 (Last 6.18mii in 46:02 @ 7:27 ave pace) 6 @ 08:04 7 @ 07:18 (First 7mi in 0:53:54 @ 7:41 ave pace) |
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| 2012 Oct 07 | 13.10 | 1:35:46 | 0:07:19 | Long Beach Half-Marathon - Ran in Asics Piranha racing flats (Garmin Elevation Gain: 354 ft). Overall: 180 out of 11200 Men: 154 out of 4664 M 35-39: 32 out of 750 Age/Grade: 63.92% Place: 428 Finish: 1:35:46 Pace: 7:19 · Hydration: 2 Nuun tabs, 1 before start, and at mile 7 · PowerGels: 2 - one at mile 7, 10 · S!Caps: one 30min before start, and half Powercrunch bar before race. • First 6mi in 0:44:12 @7:22 pace • Last 7mi in 0:50:15 @7:11 pace 1 @ 7:32 8 @ 7:32 2 @ 7:23 9 @ 7:12 3 @ 7:12 10 @ 7:05 4 @ 7:25 11 @ 7:16 5 @ 7:15 12 @ 7:04 6 @ 7:25 13 @ 6:39, last 0.23 @ 5:42 pace 7 @ 7:27 |
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| 2013 Dec 26 | 13.14 | 1:38:49 | 0:07:31 | Operation Jack
Half-Marathon 2013: Ran on about 4.5 hours sleep, and I think the holiday
junk foods I ate over the last week slowed me some, but I'm still glad I was
able to finish in sub-1:40 time :) I
ran in Asics Piranha SP3's. I was
honored to meet Nadia Ruiz in the parking lot before the race, what an
inspiration she is! Hydration: 1 Nuun tablet in water bottle at start. PowerGels = one at mile 5 and 9 Overall: 12th place Men: 9th place Division (40-49): 4th place 1 @ 8:00 8 @ 7:26 2 @ 7:29 9 @ 7:37 3 @ 7:37 10 @ 7:27 4 @ 7:35 11 @ 7:48 5 @ 7:29 12 @ 7:27 6 @ 7:25 13 @ 6:59, last 0.10 @ 6:11 pace 7 @ 7:38 |
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| 2014 Feb 02 | 13.15 | 1:38:17 | 0:07:28 | Surf
City Half-Marathon: (I made the mistake of
starting too fast) Hydration: 1 Nuun Tablet at start. PowerGels: 2 - one at mile 6, 9 Overall: 527 out of 15501 Men: 419 out of 6100 Age Division (40-44): 68 out of 965 Age/Grade: 62.85% Place: 1217 Tag Time: 1:38:10 1 @ 7:20 8 @ 7:29 2 @ 7:14 9 @ 7:42 3 @ 7:08 10 @ 8:03 (water refill) 4 @ 7:27 11 @ 7:56 5 @ 7:07 12 @ 7:47 6 @ 7:06 13 @ 7:39, last 0.10 @ 6:48 pace 7 @ 7:19 |
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| 2015 Feb 01 | 13.13 | 1:37:30 | 0:07:26 | 2015 Surf City Half-Marathon: (Ran in New Balance NRC5000's) My 2nd fastest HM to date (Current PR: 1:35:46) Hydration: 2 Nuun tablets, one at start & around mile 9 PowerGels: at mile 5 & 9 Overall: 426 out of 14136 Men: 350 out of 5544 M 40-44: 50 out of 875 Age/Grade: 63.79% Place: 868 Chip Time: 1:37:30 Negative Split!: • First 6mi in 0:44:54 @7:29 pace • Last 7mi in 0:51:42 @7:23 pace Mile Splits: 1 @ 7:37 8 @ 7:43 2 @ 7:31 9 @ 7:37 3 @ 7:29 10 @ 7:34 4 @ 7:41 11 @ 7:30 5 @ 7:10 12 @ 6:57 6 @ 7:26 13 @ 6:49 7 @ 7:32 |
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| 2015 Oct 11 | 13.11 | 1:39:53 | 0:07:37 | Long Beach Half-Marathon: (Highest
temperature in the history of this race; it was almost 90º during the
race) ** I rode my bike approx 10 mile loop to the race and back home, after. Hydration/Electrolytes: hand held water bottle, refilled at stations a couple times. GuGel's = 2 (one @ mile 5, 8) • HALF MARATHON: 133 of 4971) • Gender Place: 114 of 2351 • Male (age division 40-44): 14 of 333) • MyGarmin Finish = 1:39:53 • Racemine Finish = 1:40:00 (Official finish time) 1 @ 7:30 2 @ 7:29 3 @ 7:28 4 @ 7:27 5 @ 7:29 6 @ 7:37 7 @ 7:37 8 @ 7:35 9 @ 7:37 10 @ 7:27 11 @ 7:39 12 @ 7:47 13 @ 7:30 last 0.11 @ 6:00 pace |
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| 2015 Nov 08 | 13.26 | 1:52:29 | 0:08:29 | Monterey Bay "Big Sur" Half-Marathon: I ran this with No
distance training at all for this race (only
did 10.6 TOTAL training miles in the last 27 days). I have been trying to let my right knee
heal by taking time off running and riding the recumbant bike. Paced over a minute slower then race pace
to be safe throught the race - this is the most beautiful road course I've
run. *** We were lucky to have our race bibs signed and get a picture with Olympian Kara Goucher :) 1 @ 8:42 2 @ 8:31 3 @ 8:30 4 @ 8:34 5 @ 8:10 6 @ 8:14 7 @ 8:19 8 @ 8:33 9 @ 8:20 10 @ 8:22 11 @ 8:33 12 @ 8:34 13 @ 7:58 last 0.26 @ approx 5:8 pace (forgot to stop my watch for at least 15 secs) |
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| 2016 Feb 07 | 13.10 | 1:48:01 | 0:08:15 | 2016 Surf City
Half-Marathon (20th Anniversary) Overall: 729 out of 11885 Men: 522 out of 4616 M 40-44: 85 out of 660 Age/Grade: 56.40% Place: 1694 1 @ 8:04 2 @ 7:51 3 @ 7:48 4 @ 8:06 5 @ 7:37 6 @ 7:58 7 @ 8:08 8 @ 8:20 9 @ 8:16 10 @ 8:23 11 @ 8:27 12 @ 8:04 13 @ 7:38, last 0.10mi @6:32 pace |
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| 2016 Oct 09 | 13.10 | 1:39:36 | 0:07:36 | Long
Beach Half-Marathon: Negative Split! :) Hydration/Electrolytes: 2 PowerGel (@mile 5.5 and 9), 1 NUUN tab (Half @ start & water refill around mile 7) Entire Field: 247 of 9915 Gender Place: 209 of 4176 Division(M40-44): 32 of 627 Over 1st Half: I passed 1606 runners, 15 passed me. Over 2nd Half: I passed 383 runners, 0 passed me. For the record, you were ahead of more than 99% of women runners. 1 @ 7:47 2 @ 7:53 3 @ 7:37 4 @ 7:39 5 @ 7:35 6 @ 7:35 7 @ 7:53 (First 7 miles @ 7:43 ave pace) 8 @ 7:46 9 @ 7:34 10 @ 7:31 11 @ 7:38 12 @ 7:31 13 @ 6:59 last 0.10 at 4:20 pace (Last 6.1 miles @ 7:30 ave pace) |
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| 2017 Feb 05 | 13.10 | 1:39:33 | 0:07:36 | Surf City Half-Marathon: (Negative Split! :) One 10 oz water bottle, half refilled once, only ½ NUUN tablet. Overall: 389 out of 10274 Men: 300 out of 4148 M 40-44: 36 out of 598 Age/Grade: 61.70% Place: 909 Finish: 1:39:33 Pace: 7:36 1 @ 7:43 2 @ 7:39 3 @ 7:38 4 @ 7:43 5 @ 7:16 6 @ 7:30 (1st half = 7:35 average pace) 7 @ 7:36 8 @ 7:35 9 @ 7:40 10 @ 7:32 11 @ 7:34 12 @ 7:16 13.1 @ 7:01 (2nd half = 7:28 average pace) = Negative Split! :) |
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| 2017 Oct 08 | 13.10 | 1:37:57 | 0:07:29 | Long
Beach Half-Marathon (Negative Split!): Entire Field: 183 of 7889 Gender Place: 152 of ???? Division(M40-44): 23 of 502 1 @ 7:29 2 @ 7:30 3 @ 7:32 4 @ 7:27 5 @ 7:24 6 @ 7:34 (1st 6.5 miles = 0:48:45 = 7:30 ave pace) 7 @ 7:37 8 @ 7:28 9 @ 7:32 10 @ 7:26 11 @ 7:34 12 @ 7:30 13 @ 6:51 0.10 @ 5:35 pace (1st 6.6 miles = 0:48:41 = 7:23 ave pace) |
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| 2018 Feb 04 | 13.10 | 1:40:40 | 0:07:41 | 2018 Surf City Half-Marathon 1 @ 7:34 2 @ 7:33 3 @ 7:35 4 @ 7:45 5 @ 7:15 6 @ 7:34 (first 6mi @ 7:33 ave pace) 7 @ 7:39 8 @ 7:40 9 @ 7:58 10 @ 7:41 11 @ 7:49 12 @ 7:36 13 @ 7:20 (last 7mi @ 7:40 ave pace) Division (M 40-44): 40 Gender: 314 Overall: 404 |
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| 2018 Oct 07 | 13.10 | 1:45:25 | 0:08:03 | 2018 Long Beach Half-Marathon, disappointing, but glad I was able to finish. Hydration:
2 stinger gel's & 1 pedialyte powder packet in my bottle. Division M45-49: 42 Gender: 277 Overall: 341 1 @ 7:28 2 @ 7:34 3 @ 7:29 4 @ 7:49 5 @ 7:33 6 @ 7:21 7 @ 7:37 8 @ 7:54 (In training, I only went 8 miles) 9 @ 7:50 10 @ 8:09 11 @ 8:37 12 @ 9:06 (side stich, and cardio done - I walked a lot during this mile) 13 @ 7:59 |
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| 2019 Feb 03 | 13.10 | 1:42:30 | 0:07:49 | Surf City Half-Marathon:
cold, windy start, and strong head wind at the turnaround till finish. S-Cap
Plus pill @ start & mile 5. 1 Huma gel mile 8. Age Division (M45-49): 46 Gender: 325 Overall: 402 1 @ 7:30 2 @ 7:37 3 @ 7:29 4 @ 7:46 5 @ 7:37 6 @ 7:42 7 @ 7:55 8 @ 7:56 9 @ 7:43 10 @ 7:59 11 @ 8:10 12 @ 7:57 13 @ 7:42 |
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| 2019 Oct 13 | 13.10 | 1:42:39 | 0:07:50 | 2019 Long Beach Marathon -
Garmin watch died @ mile 2, ran with mild cold symptoms. I noticed symptoms during run, not
recommended! Ran with nothing but 12oz
bottle with 1/2 a packet of Tailwind powder. Div M45-49: 33 Gender: 299 Overall: 352 |
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| 2021 Oct 10 | 13.10 | 1:57:25 | 0:08:58 | 2021 Long Beach Marathon -
Ran a relaxed pace, because I'm not trained for speed, but put some effort in
the last mile. Div M45-49: 74 Gender: 612 Overall: 786 |
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| 2022 Oct 09 | 13.10 | 2:02:10 | 0:09:20 | 2022 Long Beach Marathon -
Ran a relaxed pace, because I'm not trained for speed, but put some effort in
the last mile. BIB # 1822 Div M45-49: 121 Gender: 1069 Overall: 1510 |
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| 2023 Oct 15 | 13.10 | 1:59:16 | 0:09:06 | 2023 Long Beach Marathon -
felt stronger in the later miles than last year, of course. BIB # 1757 Div M50-54: 173 Gender: 73 / 322 Overall: 1290 / 8135 |
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| 2024 Oct 06 | 13.10 | 1:57:52 | 0:09:00 | 2024 Long Beach Marathon 40 year anniversary - only trained up to 10 miles and ran on 3-4 hours broken
sleep. BIB # 4230 Div M50-54: 84 out of 348 Gender: 1300 / 5359 Overall: 1682 out of 10838 |
Date | Times | ||||
| 1 | 2008 Feb 03 | 2:06:34 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2008 Oct 31 | 1:49:04 | ||||||||
| 3 | 2008 Dec 07 | 1:41:34 | ||||||||
| 4 | 2009 Feb 01 | 1:40:56 | ||||||||
| 5 | 2009 Oct 11 | 1:41:47 | ||||||||
| 6 | 2010 Jul 25 | 1:45:39 | ||||||||
| 7 | 2010 Feb 07 | 2:10:25 | ||||||||
| 8 | 2011 May 01 | 1:37:51 | ||||||||
| 9 | 2011 May 14 | 1:39:57 | ||||||||
| 10 | 2012 Oct 07 | 1:35:46 | PR | |||||||
| 11 | 2013 Dec 26 | 1:38:49 | ||||||||
| 12 | 2014 Feb 02 | 1:38:17 | ||||||||
| 13 | 2015 Feb 01 | 1:37:30 | ||||||||
| 14 | 2015 Oct 11 | 1:39:53 | ||||||||
| 15 | 2015 Nov 08 | 1:52:29 | ||||||||
| 16 | 2016 Feb 07 | 1:48:01 | ||||||||
| 17 | 2016 Oct 09 | 1:39:36 | ||||||||
| 18 | 2017 Feb 05 | 1:39:33 | ||||||||
| 19 | 2017 Oct 08 | 1:37:57 | ||||||||
| 20 | 2018 Feb 04 | 1:40:40 | ||||||||
| 21 | 2018 Oct 07 | 1:45:25 | ||||||||
| 22 | 2019 Feb 03 | 1:42:30 | ||||||||
| 23 | 2019 Oct 13 | 1:42:39 | ||||||||
| 24 | 2021 Oct 10 | 1:57:25 | ||||||||
| 25 | 2022 Oct 09 | 2:02:10 | ||||||||
| 26 | 2023 Oct 15 | 1:59:16 | ||||||||
| 27 | 2024 Oct 06 | 1:57:52 | ||||||||