Saturday, May 18, 2019

If I Get Through This Thing


My shirt from the first (1978) Revco Marathon. It was also my first marathon
If I get through this thing, it will be my nineteenth Cleveland Marathon, and my eighteenth Cleveland Drugstore Marathon. The oddball was the Greater Cleveland Marathon that was held only in 2001.

You laugh when I say, “if.” I don’t think it’s all that funny; not making it is a real possibility this time. I am probably the heaviest I’ve been for any of the bunch, and I’m definitely running slower than ever. Also, did I mention the heat? It’s going to be awful tomorrow.

But since you asked (you did, didn’t you?), here’s the sad list. Sad because of the increasingly long and slow times. 2019 will likely be the slowest yet.



Number Marathons I've Run Date Age Time
1 Revco Cleveland 5/14/1978 25 3:04
8 Revco Cleveland 5/21/1989 36 2:59
12 Revco Cleveland 5/19/1991 38 3:16
17 Revco Cleveland 5/17/1992 39 3:23
49 CVS Cleveland 4/29/2000 46 3:07
53 CVS Cleveland 4/29/2001 47 3:09
54 GCM Cleveland 5/6/2001 48 3:23
57 CVS Cleveland 4/29/2002 48 3:14
65 Rite Aid Cleveland 4/25/2004 50 3:10
69 Rite Aid Cleveland 5/22/2005 52 3:18
76 Rite Aid Cleveland 5/21/2007 54 3:22
83 Rite Aid Cleveland 5/17/2009 56 3:35
88 Rite Aid Cleveland 5/16/2010 57 3:13
93 Rite Aid Cleveland 5/15/2011 58 3:16
97 Rite Aid Cleveland 5/20/2012 59 4:06
100 Rite Aid Cleveland 5/19/2013 60 3:39
104 Rite Aid Cleveland 5/19/2017 64 3:56
106 Rite Aid Cleveland 5/20/2018 65 4:13


Had enough? No? Okay, one more list. Seeing as though I’ve run Cleveland more often than any other marathon, what are those other counts? Here goes.


Marathons I've Run Number of Times Run Average
Cleveland 18 03:21
Detroit Free Press 12 03:09
Boston 10 03:18
Scotty Hanton 10 03:13
Towpath 6 03:14
Columbus 4 03:13
Glass City 4 03:23
Inland Trail 4 03:18
Ohio/Michigan 4 03:06
Chicago 3 03:24
Erie 3 03:36
Landis Loonies 3 04:03
Tahoe Triple Day 1 3 03:49
Akron 2 03:49
Athens, OH 2 03:22
Martian Marathon 2 03:19
Northern Ohio 2 03:51
Ocala 2 03:19
Run with Scissors 2 05:31
Sy Mah 2 03:11
Air Force 1 03:29
Austin Motorola 1 03:12
Bayshore 1 03:06
Brunswick 1 04:18
Canton Marathon 1 03:47
Honolulu 1 03:14
Huntington Marathon 1 03:12
InFirst Bank Veterans 1 03:46
Jacksonville Breast Cancer 1 03:58
New York 1 03:27
On My Own Two Feet Kent 1 03:53
Prague International 1 03:28
Whitefish Point 1 03:55

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