"If you can fill the unforgiving minute
         With sixty seconds' worth of distance run---
       Your's is the Earth and everything that's in it,
          And---which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!"
-Rudyard Kipling

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
-Albert Einstein in a 1930 letter to his son
 

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!
Begin it now!.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Official Endorsement from the Pentagon Force Protection Agency

    

2008 Race Results

DateEventClassResult
7/12/20081st Annual Deer Park 5K Memorial RunUSAT - 40-44 Men 1st in AG | 15th Overall 21:28:75
8/1/2008PAC Race Across AmericaUSAT - 40-44 MenCompleted 1st | Total 9875 miles or 3X across
6/29/2008Spirit of Morgantown Half Ironman DistanceUSAT - 40-44 Men27th in AG | 209th Overall 6:32:15
5/18/2008The Columbia TriathlonUSAT - 40-44 Men116th in AG | 755th overall (top 1/3) 2:52:34

2008 Races

"One the country's most challenging Olympic Distance Triathlons"

Sunday, May 18, 2008
Centennial Lake - Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
1.5k Swim - 41k Bike - 10k Run

Course Record holder, Matt Reed, has committed to coming back to defend (and hopefully break) his own course record. Matt has secured a spot on the 2008 US Men's Olympic Triathlon Team. To challenge Matt will be Chris "Macca" McCormack, 2007 Ironman Hawaii World Champion. And last, but certainly not least, Greg Remaly, the 2007 Columbia Triathlon Winner, will be back to defend his title.


HALF-IRONMAN DISTANCE

Morgantown, WV

Sunday, June 29, 2008

 


 

1st Annual

Deer Park Water(3.1m) Run / Walk

Brent Kegley Memorial 5k

Quiet Waters Park

600 Quiet Waters Park Rd Annapolis, MD 21403

Saturday, July 12th, 2008


PENTAGON ATHLETIC CENTER LOGO 

Race Across America

WASHINGTON D.C.  to  SAN FRANCISCO

August 1-31, 2008

Challenge: Travel across the United States from east to west by earning miles for the minutes spent exercising. Earn the equivalent of 3,000 miles by logging 1,000 minutes of exercise.

A large-scale map of the United States will be displayed with push pins flagged with the names of each participant and their status.

Open to PAC members only


 

CANCELED

Annapolis Triathlon
September 7, 2008
1.5K Swim, 40K Bike, 10K Run

CANCELED

SEE BLOG


September 27, 2008
Cambridge, MD., USA.
2.4 Mile Swim, 112 Mile Bike, 26.2 Mile Run

ChesapeakeMan has been named the
USAT Mid-Atlantic Ultra Tri Regional Championship!

 

The 24th annual Army Ten-Miler will run on October 5th, 2008


Marine Corp Marathon 

"The Peoples Marathon"

October 28th, 2008

Boston Marathon Qualifier


 

Personal Q&A

Why do you compete?

Not to sound cocky, but because I can. I'm healthy. What a shameful waste it would be not to rip up a course when so, so many individuals can't/don't/won't get out there (for a myriad of reasons). I am of the 1% of the population engaged in multi-sport. The race is the carrot dangling out there, which gives me the legitimate excuse to train like I do. I set the goal - then chase it with everything I have.

Do you train? What does your schedule look like?

My training schedule encompasses 600 annual hours. I train seven days a week to some degree or another. Most days encompass two-a-day workouts and a brick on the weekend. It's a fine balance between the priorities of family, work, and training (in that order).

Why do you like this sport?

Asked this, I always find it difficult to articulate the deep seeded love for a) some good old-fashioned competition b) the camaraderie of the sport (mine is a attitude of gratitude) c) continually testing and bettering oneself d) satisfying the gear-head in me.

What has been your most embarrassing moment?

Unrelated to sport - In a very crowded elevator with various Heads of State, a lot of chatter (none of which I could comprehend since it was mostly in Russian) a Russian interpreter sheepishly whispered in my ear "Mr. Gorbachev is requesting that you lean forward slightly so that he may remove his hand from the rail of which you are seemingly sitting on" ...Why yes, it's pleasure to meet you too, Mr. President.

Some Personal Information About Me:

I am planning and intend on a single-handed, around-the-world sailing circumnavigation in the future. A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are built for. John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic, 1928

Just a few pics

This'll get ya' going!!


Comments

Joe Yorio says:
9/5/2008 11:26 PM
  Rick, I hope you are doing well brother. Here is a 5* for you.
Joe
Team Running Warriors says:
7/22/2008 9:09 AM
  Rik, thanks for dropping that quote on us and the 5* rating. Reagan always did have a way with words and boy did he love his Marines. Hope to see ya at the Marine Corps Marathon this year.

Semper Fi,
Team Running Warriors
Team Running Warriors says:
7/21/2008 1:05 PM
  Rik, thanks for the friends request. Good luck with the upcoming events.

Semper Fi,
Team Running Warriors
Rickey Visinski says:
7/7/2008 8:09 AM
  Congrats at knocking out a Half. they are always an interesting animal. 5*S
Noah Granigan says:
6/19/2008 9:45 AM
  Hey. 5*'s for you. Good luck in your racing this year.

Rik Kirchner is: 

Prepping/Peaking for the Chesapeakeman Ultra-distance race