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Welcome to all my runchat friends to my Home Page. I use to try to mention all your names on this page but there are so many of you that there was no way to keep up with the changes. Be sure to check out my close encounters of the RUNCHAT KIND page and my BOSTON MARATHON page. There are links to these at the bottom of this page as well as a link to other runchatters homepages on the runchat page.

Enjoy your visit

Here is a picture of Tanya and I in Boston for the running of the 104th Boston Marathon.

Here is my lovely wife greeting me after the Big Sur marathon.

Some of you may ask "What the hell is he wearing?" That's my world famous frog hat.

In May of 2001 Tanya and I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon and Half Marathon. By far the toughest races in the world.

My moment in the sun came in the Great Wall of China Half Marathon where I ended up taking 3rd overall and 1st American in the race. Ok so there weren't any African runners. Is that my fault? I think not. Here I am with the winner and second place finisher after the race. The winner was Rod Dixon an Olympic Bronze medal winner in the 5000 meters and past winner of the New York Marathon. Second place went to a Danish runner and yours truly was third, thank you, thank you very much.

Here is Tanya and I after finishing the toughest half marathon in the world.

Here I am 3700 steps later with Rod Dixon after the race. Rod's winning time was 2 hours, 3 minutes and change and thats for the half marathon!!!

Here I am on the Great Wall.

Last updated: March 30th, 2008

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I work at QUALCOMM in San Diego for the past 13 years.

Some days I have to go undercover to make sure people are not doing unsafe activities. What do you think of this disguise??

You can always send me an email at:Hey jp or at Home

33 Marathons and 2 ex-wives to my credit. I served in Viet Nam with Bravo company, 3th platoon(Cheyenne)in the 2nd of 8th, 1st Air Cavalry Division in 1971 as a rifleman and the RTO (radio tranmission operator) in a grunt unit(rifle company):
For my running friends who want to see my marathon record:

3 Boston Marathons 1991, 1996, 2000
20 Straight LA Marathons 1986 - 2005
3 San Diego Marathons 1983, 1984, 1994
1 Portland Marathon 1994
1 LA Pro Am Marathon 1981
2 Big Sur Marathons 1997, 2000
1 Catalina Marathon 1998
2 Rock n Roll Marathons 1998-99

Here are my personal best for the standard races:
My PR for a 5K is 16:48 set in 1987 at the Carlsbad 5000
My PR for a 10K is 35:10 set in 1987 at the Run for MDA in Del Mar in San Diego
My PR for a Half Marathon is 1:19:45 set in 1993 at the Race of Champions in San Diego
My PR for the Marathon is 2:58:06 set in Los Angeles in 1994.

Pretty impressive huh? I thought so too!

My favorite place to hang out was in RunChat located in *Sportschat But due to work constraints I can't visit there very much.
*Owned, operated and established by Kyle Parrish.

Here's a never seem picture of Kyle while he was working on the Runchat server.

For all my RunChat friends back east this is for you..........

One of my favorite jokes is the one that ask "Why don't vultures eat clowns"?

Links to other web sites
The running of the 100th Boston Marathon
See the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the RUNCHAT KIND
Looking for some cool vacation pictures? Check out ourTrips
Check out the homepage of the San Diego Chapter of SOS Seekers Of Suffering
Neff High School class of 1967 home page Trojans
Viet Nam 1971 Tour Pictures

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