2025 Race Schedule

Calendar and Results

1/19: Naples Half Marathon (Naples, FL)
Perennial race to kick off the season. Perfect weather but for a touch of wind. I was four minutes slower than last year, which is concerning.

1/25: The Itch 50k (Ocala, FL)
Very nice low key event. Mostly single track. Always scenic point-to-point course. This is my thirdyear in a row running this race with my friends from Stoked Oats.

2/8: Mesa Marathon (Mesa, AZ)
Downhill marathon that I’m running with my daughter. She’ll be going for a sub 3 hour finish. I won’t be eating her dust because it will have long settled by the time I get to where she was.

3/2: Tokyo Marathon (Japan)
This will be my sixth star in the Marathon Majors series. I have won my age group at least once in the other five, so I’m hoping to win here for a clean sweep.

3/15: TBD
I intend to find a 50-miler somewhere to get some miles in for my April race.

3/23-29: WMA Indoor Championships (Gainesville, FL)
I probably won’t do all of them, but here are the possibilities:

23: 5k XC
25: 3000 meters
26: Triple Jump
28-29: 1500 meters
29: 10k

4/4-11: Arizona Monster 300
A 309-mile point to point trail race, primarily on the Arizona Trail. Tucson is approximately at the halfway point.

4/21: Boston Marathon
One and a half weeks after a 300-miler? I just may be jogging this one.

5/7-10: Sedona Canyons 125 (AZ)
A few years ago I attempted the Cocodona 250 and DNF’d about 170 miles in. This event starts at the halfway point of the 250-mile race, so I’ll have the opportunity to see the rest of the course.

5/23-28: Adventure Runs (AZ, UT)
Six days of adventure runs with about a dozen friends.
23: Grand Canyon, Rim to Rim to Rim (Rim to River to Rim for some of us)
24: Coyote Buttes North, South, or White Pocket.
25: Bryce Canyon
26: Slot canyons
27: Zion
28: Parks on the way back to Las Vegas

8/23-24: Hood To Coast Relay (OR)
A 12-person team of septuagenarians (six men, six women). We’ll be attempting to win the 60+ coed division.

You may have noticed that nothing much is happening after May. I’m taking a sabbatical from racing to rest up for the upcoming M80 age group in 2028.