Race Results & PR’s

By Michael

Here are results from races since I began eating a Fruitarian Diet in January 2008:

2008:

2/10: Bronx 1/2 Marathon: 1:17.29, 12th Overall

2/2: Napa Valley Marathon: 2:34.07, 2nd Overall (PR)

3/30: 10km Central Park NYC 35:30, 30th Overall

4/22: Boston Marathon: 2:35.3, 93rd Overall

7/6 Calgary Marathon: 2:39.23, 3rd Overall

7/23 Ironman Lake Placid New York: 10:10.57, 79th Overall

9/28 Toronto Marathon: 2:32.34, 26th Overall (PR)

10/11 Ironman Hawaii World Championships: 11:36.32 1011th Overall (fun run)

11/2 NYC Marathon: 2:31.49, 48th Overall (PR)

11/9 NYC X-C 3.0mile Race Van Cortlandt Park

11/15 Knickerbocker 60km Ultra Marathon NYC: 4:32.07, 1st Place Overall

11/22 JFK 50 mile Ultra Marathon: 6:24.36, 5th Overall

11/30 NYC X-C 15km in Van Cortlandt Park: 56.03, 1st Overall

2009:

1/25 Bronx 1/2 Marathon NYC: 1:18.23, 27th Overall

2/8 NYC 1/2 Marathon: 1:15.21, 8th Overall

3/1 5km NYC (Coogan's): 16:04, 32nd Overall

4/20 Boston Marathon: 2:35.30, 110th Overall

5/3 New Jersey Marathon: 2:38.54, 1st Overall

5/30 Brooklyn Half Marathon NYC: 1:11.47, 7th Overall (PR)

6/13 NYC Central Park 10km: 32:48, 2nd Overall (PR)

6/28 NYC Central Park 5mile: 27:31, 10th Overall

10/11 Chicago Marathon: 2:35.01, 118th Overall

11/1 NYC Marathon: 2:35.34, 148th Overall

11/8 Harrisburg,PA Marathon: 2:32.17, 1st Overall

11/21 JFK 50 Mile Ultra Marathon: 5:50.58, 2nd Overall (PR)

12/6 Palm Beach Marathon 2:30.59, 2nd Overall (PR)

2010:

3/7 Napa Valley Marathon: 2:31.26, 1st Overall

3/21 NYC Half Marathon: 1:10.56, 38th Overall (PR)

3/28 NYC 15K Central Park: 50.29, 2nd Overall

4/3 NYC 10K Central Park: 32.55, 23rd Overall

4/10 USA 100km National Championships (Madison, WI): 7:27.46, 5th Overall

4/19 Boston Marathon: 2:28.29, 57th Overall (PR)

4/26 Sybil Ludington 50km: 3:30.52, 1st Overall

5/2 New Jersey Marathon: 2:37.53, 1st Overall (85F, full sun and 85% humidity- HOT! Race Report)

5/8 NorthFace 50 Mile Ultra Marathon (Bear Mt. NY): 8:00.30, 5th Overall (insane technical course! Race Report)

6/19 Joe Kleinerman 12-Hour (Queens NY) 73.6 miles, 2nd overall

6/26 Western States 100 Mile: DNF 20 hours 30 minutes, mile 85.2 (had a terrible race! hamstring pull at mile 35! Race Report)

7/17  Vermont 100 Mile Ultra Marathon: 5th overall, 17 hours 12 minutes Race Report

7/24 New York Road Runner's Queens Half Marathon: 1:28 (85F, ate too much before the race, bombed)

7/28 Central Park 10km: 34:13 (89F HOT!) GPS Data 

7/30 Around the Lake 12 Hour (In Massachussets): 61.59 miles GPS Data 

8/4 Times Square NYC to the top of Bear Mt. 62.76 miles (fat ass race) GPS Data 

8/7 New York Road Runner's 5 Mile Team Championships (Central Park) 27:04 (5:24 per mile) 55th overall

Note: I've been running 180-210 miles a week for the last 2 months!

8/14 Leadville Colorado 10km (starting elevation 10,200ft.  590ft of climbing in race): 38:42, 1st overall (6:14 per mile)

8/21 Leadville Colorado 100 Mile Ultra Marathon (16,000ft of climbing and 16,000 ft of decent.  Got lost, ran more than 100 miles!) 22:48, 31st overall Race Report

8/24 Sri Chinmoy Marathon (Rockland State Park New York): 2:39.41, 1st Overall (yes I won this marathon just 2 days after running the Leadville 100 mile ultra marathon!)

9/18-19 USATF 24 Hour National Championships: 87 miles in 15 hours (Awful race!  The week leading up to this race I ran 296 miles in 8 days, then came down with a bad virus)

10/10 Chicago Marathon: I tried to pace my wife to a Boston Qualifying time: ran it with her in 4 hours

11/7 NYC Marathon: 2:41.03

11/21 JFK 50 Mile: 6:34 12th overall

11/25 The Thanksgiving Trail Marathon in VC Park: 3rd Overall in 3:08

12/11 NYRRC Central Park 10k: 34:40

12/25 The Christmas Marathon in VC Park: 3:45 fun run

2011:

01/01 The New Year's Marathon in VC Park in 18''snow conditions! 2nd overall in 5:30

2/5 Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile Trail Race: 16 hours 34 minutes, 7th overall. Race Report

2/13 Valentine’s Day Marathon (heavy snow pack, fun run)

2/26 Hawaii 50 mile, Ran from the ocean to 10,000ft up Mauna Kea

3/3 Nominated ‘Runner of the Year’ by New York Road Runners for year 2010

3/13 Madagascar Double Marathon 52.5 miles in 6 hours 5 minutes

4/10 New York Road Runners 10km 34:10

4/18 Boston Marathon 100th overall, 2:30.48

4/24 Easter Trail Marathon 2:52 (New Course Record), 1st Overall

4/29 Royal Berkshire Marathon (England) 1st Overall 2:31.24

5/15 Pocono Marathon, 5th Overall, 2:30.30

5/21 Brooklyn Half Marathon 1:13.30

6/25 Western States Endurance Run 100 Miles, 21 Hours 40 Minutes 61st overall

7/8 Yonkers NY to Long Branch NJ 75.2 Miles, 10 hours 25 minutes

7/16  Vermont 100 Mile, 15 hours 26 minutes, 1st Place Overall! Race Report

8/14 Leadville 10km, 37:56, 1st Place Overall

8/20 Leadville 100 Mile Ultra Marathon 17 Hours 56 Minutes, 4th Overall Race Report

9/30 Spartathlon Ultra Marathon (Greece: Athens to Sparta 153 Mile Race (36 Hour Cut Off), DNF 25 hours 115 Miles

10/9 Chicago Marathon, 2:34 (a week after running 115 miles in Greece!)

10/16 Asbury Park Marathon, 1st Place Overall, 2:30.28

10/23 USA Track & Field 50 Mile National Championships (Tussey Mountain) 3rd Overall, 5 Hours 52 Minutes (5000ft of climbing!)

11/6 NYC Marathon, 2:28.12, 30th Overall, 6th American, 2nd in age group 30-34, New PR 5:39 per mile average

11/19 JFK 50 Mile Ultra Marathon, 6:07 5th Overall

11/24 The Thanksgiving Marathon (Bronx, NY)

12/4 NY Road Runners 5 Mile, Central Park, NYC 26:10 5th Overall (5:12 per mile)

12/11 NY Road Runners 15Km Van Cortlandt Park X-C 54:09, 1st Place Overall

12/17 Desert Solstice 100mile Track Race, 13 Hours 46 Minutes 18 seconds (8:15 per/mile), 1st Place Overall

 


 

Here were my PR's prior to starting my Fruitarian Diet in January 2008.

Note: I have been running competitively since High School

Mile: 4:36 (High School)

3200meter: 9:44 (High School)

5km: 15:46 (19 years old)

10km: 36:50 (19 years old)

1/2 marathon: 1:18 (20 years old)

marathon: 2:45* (I ran this time many times from 20 years to 30 years old),

*At the age of 30, I tried a calorie restriction/Atkins diet and ran 2:34.19, but immediately thereafter had a debilitating tibia stress fracture which sidelined me for 8 months.



Since adopting a Fruitarian Diet I have set or improved on the following PR's:

10K: 32:48 (NYC Central Park, Rolling Hills)           

Here is my GPS data on this race:     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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NYRR Dash 10K 
June 13, 2009

M32 

6.2 

32:48 

5:17 

82.5 % 

 


15K: 50:29 (NYC Central Park, rolling hills)

Here is my GPS data on this race:

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Colon Cancer 15K Challenge 
March 28, 2010

M33 

New York,
NY

9.3 

50:29 

5:25 

81.9 % 

 


1/2 Marathon: 1:10.56 (NYC 1/2 Marathon Central Park to lower Manhattan

Gender/
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2010 NYC Half-Marathon 
March 21, 2010

M33 

13.1 

1:10:56 

05:25 

37 

33 

83.63 

 


 

Marathon: 2:28.29 (2010 Boston Marathon), 2:28.12 (2011 NYC Marathon)


50 Mile: 5:50.58 (2009 JFK 50 Mile. Course:single track technical/hills, flat dirt road, and asphalt road)

I placed 2nd overall, 45 seconds behind the winner.  My 5:50.58 time is the 4th fastest time ever recorded in the 47 year history of this race.


12 Hour:  88.3 Miles (8:09 per/mile), The Desert Solstice, Phoenix AZ December 17, 2011

 


100K: 7:27 (2010 USA National Championships, Mad City Madison Wisconsin

I placed 5th overall.


100 Mile Trail: 15 hours 26 minutes (Vermont 100 Mile Trail Race 2011)

I placed 1st overall.

 


100 Mile Road/Track: :13 Hours 46 Minutes 18 Seconds (8:15 per/mile) The Desert Solstice, Phoenix Arizona December 17, 2011

  1. Jerry Holbrook says:

    Great website. Amazing accomplishments. Please keep all us motivated with your diet thur this website.
     
    Are you still going to run Western States?

  2. Michael says:

    Yup, Western States is my next big race! The training is brutal!

  3. eric paul mccarty says:

    can't wait for the Vermont race report Mike!

  4. Cody says:

    amazing accomplishments eating mainly fruits, what's the ratio of fruits to vegetables that you eat?  I sort of… don't like vegetables that much, so I was wondering if it's possible to do the kind of stuff that you do on just fruits and no vegetables.

  5. Michael says:

    If you don’t like vegetables – don’t eat them.
    It is entirely possible to eat only fruit.
    However, when you stay on this diet for a while, you might start craving some vegetables.
    If you don’t – stay on fruit, just keep it low fat.

  6. Eli says:

    Hey Mike,
    I checked out your split times on the official Kona 2008 results, you actually placed 1010, not 1011!
     

  7. Sebastian says:

    Congratulations with the new Marathon PR and great placement in the NYC Marathon