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Michael

About Me

I am a graduate of Kettering University in Flint, MI. I work to support my running and cycling habits. I have run ten marathons with a PR of 3:16:55 and five 50-mile ultra-marathons. I am currently training for a 100 mile race. I tried my hand at bike racing but I didn't enjoy the way the other competitors treated each other. Runners are a much friendlier crowd! I'm a big car nut and love to wrench on them. I turned my back on Windows operating systems and am now the happy owner of a Mac. I love this computer and will not go back to Microsoft until they can make an OS as stable as this one!
You Have A Type A- Personality
You are one of the most balanced people around
Motivated and focused, you are good at getting what you want
You rule at success, but success doesn't rule you.
When it's playtime, you really know how to kick back
Whether it's hanging out with friends or doing something you love!
You live life to the fullest - encorporating the best of both worlds Do You Have a Type A Personality?
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Name: Mike
Birthday: The day Hell froze over
Birthplace: Pittsfield, MA
Current Location: Conway, AR
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'7"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: 1/4 British, 1/4 Irish, 1/4 French, 1/4 mutt.
The Shoes You Wore Today: Old, worn out running shoes, cycling shoes
Your Weakness: Come on... one more mile!
Your Fears: Needing to take a crap on a run and not having a bathroom or bushes to run into!
Your Perfect Pizza: Pepperoni, sausage, hamburger, ham, bacon, onions, green peppers
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: To run a 100 mile ultra marathon
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:
Thoughts First Waking Up: Let's see how sore I am today!
Your Best Physical Feature: Legs... way too big for a guy my size
Your Bedtime: Early, I need to run...
Your Most Missed Memory:
Pepsi or Coke: Neither, Stopped drinking soda years ago
MacDonalds or Burger King: Subway
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Water
Chocolate or Vanilla: Swirl
Cappuccino or Coffee: Gatorade
Do you Smoke: Never
Do you Swear: What the fuck do you think?
Do you Sing: Like a cat caught in a garbage disposal
Do you Shower Daily: Sometimes twice!
Have you Been in Love:
Do you want to go to College: Been there... done that...
Do you want to get Married: Sure, why not.
Do you belive in yourself: Yea, except for the times I don'
Do you get Motion Sickness:

Do you think you are Attractive: Somewhat
Are you a Health Freak: Yup
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: Hell yah! Especially running in them!
Do you play an Instrument: Do squeeky bike brakes count?
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Nope
In the past month have you gone on a Date: What's a date?
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Nope, lame
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: I don't think I've eaten an Oreo in years
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Nope
In the past month have you been on Stage:
In the past month have you been Dumped: Don't I need to go on dates for that to hapen?
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Just give me a chance!
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Somewhat. Not a heavy drinker.
Ever been called a Tease:
Ever been Beaten up: No
Ever Shoplifted: No
How do you want to Die: When I get old, senile and can't take care of myself, I'm putting on a Depends adult diaper (and nothing else), and running until I drop... or I get hit by the beer truck.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: An engineer!
What country would you most like to Visit: New Zealand
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Green
Favourite Hair Color: Red
Short or Long Hair: Long
Height: My height or shorter
Weight: Don't care as long as she's thin and in shape.
Best Clothing Style: Conservative. Leave something to the imagination.
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Number of Piercings: No limit. Just as long as they don't get in the way or poke my eye out.
Number of Tattoos: This will need to be judged on a case by case basis.
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My Interests

Running (road and trail), cycling (road and mountain), weight lifting, general fitness, healthy eating, cars, anything mechanical, non-circle track auto racing, good beer... not that tastless mass produced American crap, it's German all the way or Sam Adams in a pinch!

I'd like to meet:

In no particular order; Aiiens (from space), nerds, geeks, runners and cyclists.

Music:

Metal!Iced Earth, Bling Guardian, Arch Enemy, Shadows Fall, In Flames (older stuff), pre-Black album Metallica, Opeth, Heaven Shall Burn.

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Movies:

Boondock Saints, Princess Bride, Serenity, Army of Darkness

Television:

Auto racing, Daily Show, News, History and Discovery Channel.

Heroes:

Scott Jurek - Greatest ultra-runner alive.

My Blog

100 Mile Bust

It's a little over three weeks since my 100 mile attempt. Long story short, it wasn't going to happen. Dropped after 40 miles and nine hours.Medium story (not going to bore anyone with the long stor...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 08 May 2008 05:37:00 PST

Been a While...

It's been a long time since I've posted anything but life has a way of getting in the way with that.  After my last post, I was preparing to start training for my first 100 mile ultra-marathon.&n...
Posted by Michael on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:30:00 PST

Two Ultras Instead of Three? I'm OK with That!

I finished the OT-50 last week, in an agonizing time of 11:04 (and damn proud of it!). Long story short, my body wasn't recovered from my last race, which was only five weeks earlier. I finished 15/...
Posted by Michael on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:46:00 PST

1st Ultra and Recovery

One Ultra down and two to go (if all continues to go well). Ran the first 50-miler in 9:10:33 and came in 6th place overall. This was my first true trail race as my previous three have all been Danc...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:28:00 PST

1st Ultra of the season is near!

I did my last double long runs this past weekend, back to back 25 mile runs on the Ouachita Trail. Saturday went smooth, except for the torrential rains and waterlogged cell phone. The phone survive...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:41:00 PST

Training again.. let the cycle of pain continue

I'm in training for a series of ultras this spring. I've built up to back to back 21 mile trail runs on the Ouachita trail. I didn't lose nearly as much fitness as I thought I did! My long distance...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:38:00 PST

Arkansas

I've been in Arkansas for about three weeks now. The new job is going very well and I don't miss the old one! I love the area. I'm in Conway, Arkansas, a city of around 50,000 people. We are about...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:44:00 PST

Dances with Dirt

Three weeks ago, I completed my last training runs, 29.2 miles on Saturday followed by 29.2 on Sunday. Saturday's run sucked and Sunday's was 15 minutes faster, partially due to a Powerbar in the las...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:07:00 PST

Why Floyd... Why!

After all the doping stories leading up to this year's Tour de France, the cycling world needed a hero. Someone to rise above the dark underworld of illegal performance enhancing drugs that took out ...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 04:00:00 PST

Summer Vacation (of PAIN)

I've been back from my summer vacation for about a week now. I had two weeks off at my plant due to summer shutdown. I started the vacation off right with a 26 miler through the swamp on Saturday (7...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:58:00 PST