the ACE!

Well after 15 years of throwing the ole Innova Dics' around it finally came time for my first ACE! 

Wednesday, better known as HumpDay, was pretty sweet; hit the boat (aka water whip) for a nice cleaning and then headed out to Elon Park to meet Chad for a quick evening round of disc golf on the Eager Beaver course.  The round started out great hoovering around even par-to-1-under then we met up with some random guy named Brian who had never played the course. 

We headed got to hole #10 and our new friend we met mid-course pulled the classic and pulled out some "meds" and asked if it would be ok to partake, we answered, "hey man its a free country and we are throwing discs in the woods, we can't stop ya"......

.....then came the tee shot at Hole #12 (218 feet from teh back tees), Chad had won the hole before (but was still 3 shots back from me) so he had honors......then the B.O.B. was up........

I pulled out the ole mid-range/putter the Skeeter First-Run and tried to throw the normal right to left glide.....we watched it turn around the left tree perfectly then start the sidewinder wrap back to the right a bit and then CHING!  hit the chains in the dang middle!  First hole-in-one EVER!

Chad and I went nuts jumping around and high-fiving like we just invented that, all while our friend said, "dude, that deserves a hit"  (of his "meds" of course)...........not into that type of celebration Mr. Brian, but go ahead I guess! 

So I finished the day with a decent -1 under and a Hole-in-One........yeah I'll take it!  Got back to the lot and added my name to the "Hole-in-One" boards......

Then as in classic "Hole-in-One" fashion, the person who gets the Hi1 buys the rest of the folks he's playing with beers (more of a golf course rule, but should pertain to disc golf too).  So Chad and I headed over to Wings-n-Rings and enjoyed some cold CodeBlues!

Boston Marathon 2011: Boston with Pride!

I am writing a mile-by-mile look into the Boston Marathon adventure a couple weeks back!  It was one of the greatest days of my life to accomplish #1 on my bucket list and fulfill a lifelong dream, all while helping to make a difference in kids lives through Team CYCLE Kids!  

This is a visual look at the journey!  Thanks again to all those who supported me along the way!  Cheers!

Boston Marathon and the Family in the Boston Globe!

Boston Marathon 2011 in the books folks!  Most of you know that I joined TEAM CYCLE Kids this year to run in the 115th running of the Boston Marathon......#1 event on my Bucket List!  Check out the Team CYCLE Kids BLOG for a quick write-up and pictures!

Well I haven't had time to sit down and really do a full fledged write-up of the Boston Marathon as it will be a long one!  The experience was the ultimate dream.  The time wasn't what I was shooting for and the late mile hills really tore up my legs after the long downhill pull on the calves and such....but late in the race I decided to simply back it off and take it all in!   UNREAL folks....the greatest event I have ever and will ever do I am sure.

Another really cool thing was seeing the Team CYCLE Kids folks and my family (Ape, Bethy, Dad, and Betsy) at the 25-26 mile mark @ Kenmore Square near the famous Citgo Sign and Fenway Park!  Check out the write-up the family got in the "Boston Globe: Marathon Coverage Section"!

Race 1: the Shamrock 4 Miler

After having not run a competitive race in probably the better part of a year, it was time to toe the line for a nice relaxed pace, get your mind right 4 Miler in honor of St. P's Day!

It was one of those morning though, where you got a ton of other stuff to do and you just aren't feeling real peppy from the get-go.  Got up around 6am and grabbed some wheat toast and some watered down Gatorade and headed over to park the car and pick up the timing chip.  After a slight easy easy warm-up it was gun-time.

One thing that has always bugged me is the folks who think they are truly competitive, I know where I stand....middle of the pack no further towards the front.  I love the folks who are still caught on their younger days and try to get up front..........including walk/runners, people who just plain don't look they are out there to actually go for a goal time, and those with kids or kids in strollers.....don't get me wrong I am glad you are out there and proud of you.  The more folks in the running community the better, as it is a great sport with great dividends to pay health-wise and all.  Yet, please give those of us who are hobby runners, those of us who train daily for somewhat quick goal times, the first 10 rows.

Anyways, the first miles was brutal, got stuck weaving in-out and got real frustrated, yet remembered in my head that this was simply a race to practice pace control trying to hit 7:30's or so the entire way.  Thus at the end I saw it as a 50/50; I was frustrated I didn't clock it better, but happy I practiced what I have been preaching and stayed on pace overall.

After all was said and done, I grabbed a quick water and said a quick hi to an ole CCS Cross Country teammate; Daniel Eggers (who killed it, kid is crazy fast) and then headed home to prep the house for the party that evening!

Time:  30:27
Distance:  4.04 miles
Pace:  7:32 avg
the Route

Thanks to all those at Run For Your Life who put on these great events and host the best "summer series" of races around!  Now off to train for Boston and then back for some R4YL Series races!

The "Summer Series" races have started here in the Queen City!  Thrown each year by the good folks at Run For Your Life they are always a ton of fun and have great attendance from the running community!

This years race Series Calendar looks like the following:

March 19:  Shamrock 4 Miler (Stonecrest Shopping Center)
April 30:  CPCC Skyline 5k (CPCC Main Campus)
May 13:  Right Moves for Youth Twilight 5k (Uptown Charlotte)
May 21:  Great Harvest Bread Co. 5k (Run For Your Life - Piper Glen)
June 4:  King Tiger 5k @ University City (Run For Your Life - University)
June 18:  Summer Breeze 5k (Freedom Park)
July 16:  Run For Your Life - Run For the Cause 4 Miler (Run For Your Life - Dilworth)
August 6:  BluePoints Panthers 5k (Bank of American Stadium)
August 27: Greek Festival 5k (Greek Orthodox Cathedral)
September 17:  Hit the Brixx 10k & 5k (Brixx Uptown)
October 8:  LungStrong 15k & 5k(Jetton Village in Cornelius, NC)

Along the way you accumulate points for finishing time, placement, age division, etc.  Ready to toe-the line....keep your eyes peeled for race updates and "the Route" links and breakdowns!

the New Whip....a Coors Light on 20's!

Well many of you know that I have been lobbying for a Ford F250 Extended Cab King Ranch edition for a sometime now.  All that changed this weekend when I saw what could (and should) be my next ride!  This bad boy is so "fresh and so clean, clean" that my boy BH had to snap the pic and send it over.  

 

Now I am in the planning stage; 

 

(1) what make is this bad boy?, 

(2) where can I get one affordable to outfit?, 

(3) which westcoast shop should I have this P.I.M.P. done at?

The Boss will surely have to custom up one of these Coors Light's on Rims!

A Day in the Life of da Boss....2010 Rewind!

Well friends it's that time....each year I put together a "Year in Rewind" video and this is the final piece for 2010. It was a great "bounce back" year as I call it after a couple tough ones. 2010 was full of great family times, awesome celebrations (weddings, birthdays, kids, etc) so I hope you enjoy and hope it brings a smile to each of you and reminds you of some great memories from this past year!



Finally, CHEERS and I hope 2011 so far has been awesome!

footnote:  I did have some tech problems in 2010 and lost a lot of photos so I did the best I could with what I could gather.....hope you enjoy it!

Head Over to the Run for the Kids BLOG!

Hey folks!

I will be keeping up this BLOG more often in the New Year, but I do have another one devoted to my Boston Marathon adventures with Team CYCLE Kids: Run for the Kids!............check it out and become a FAN ( or a follower)!

Gin Mill Charity Night!

Well last night we had the big Gin Mill Fundraiser Night benefiting the great folks of Team CYCLE Kids, Inc. Our friends at the Gin Mill were as awesome as always, we set up early afternoon then hit off the event at 7pm and enjoyed some live music from our friends Chad York, Matt Gourlay, and Phil......the boys of "the Smoking Co"! We hit up some great raffles and did some major fundraising with the tip jars!

After unloading all the raffle prizes and packing over 150+ into the Gin Mill for the big bash! We thanked everyone and got DJ J-Five up for the late night dance party and continued to have some late night fun and pull in some more funds!

A final count on monies raised during the Gin Mill Event will come later this week!

Thanks to all those who came out and enjoyed some great live music, friendship, and supporting a great cause! I greatly appreciate each of you who joined us and thanks for being so generous in helping me reach my fundraising goals!

Also a huge thank you to the folks at the Gin Mill and to Chad, Matt, and Phil for rocking it all night long!

Merry Christmas Folks!

Merry Christmas Folks! Hope everyone has had a great holiday weekend so far and I hope you find yourself surrounded by family, friends, and enjoying some relaxation! So what better to post than a pic of Santa getting a Christmas Day workout on a treadmill!

*photo compliments of our friends at Runners World!

Thunder Road Weekend!

Yesterday was the B.O.B.'s favorite sports day of the year; the Thunder Road Marathon here in my hometown of Charlotte. Each year I am like a kid at Christmas when I know I get to wake-up and either lace up the shoes to log some race miles or, like this year, bundle up and go stand in as a fan and spectator! I love watching all the folks out testing their limits and seeing all the camaraderie that the running community has!

This year I had a couple of my good friends attempting the ole Amica Half Marathon in their "new color" outfits! Congratulations to Aimee "PowerBand" Couture and Rebecca "4 Loko" Dillingham!

Also a huge congrats to my ole high school teammate Daniel Eggers on his BostonQ time and a 3 hour flat finish! Awesome run kid!

Yet, the biggest congrats of the day once again goes to J.K. (Jordan Kinley) of Charlotte. In the past year+ he has given Charlotte a treat. JK is unbelievably fast and makes it look so natural! He defended his title from last year, but bested last year's time with a 2:24:46....unreal!

Dirty Dirty da Boss is 30!

Well a couple weeks back the lady friend (aka Ape) surprised me with a weekend at the beach with the whole gang...........26 of my best friends all staying in a multi-million dollar mansion on the beach! Here are a few pics that tell some of the story of what is now known as "the Debacle @ IOP"

We always head down to Charleston around my birthday time to see the family and hit up some favorite restaurants, so nothing seemed out of the ordinary! Ape and I spent most of Thursday in downtown Charleston bumming around having a few drinks and figuring out what the weekend would behold. Then it was off to Morgan Creek (one of my favs) for dinner with the family......again nothing out of the ordinary. Until we hit Palm Blvd and teh family started to talk about how cool it would be to own a big house right on the beach and got me talking about "my favorite house"; which unknown to me was rented for the weekend and full of Code Blues and 26 of my best friends! Saturday included an Oyster Roast at the house and every other night included the following; code blues, singing, code blues, dancing, code blues, da Donk's solo, code blues, Kings Cup, code blues, anything that we can think of..............

Then the big surprise Raudy Laudy had flown in from O-H-I-O for the big weekend! This pretty much meant T-R-O-U-B-L-E!

Here is the casa de Debacle that we stayed in....also known as the Mansion on Dunes Blvd

I have many more pictures to tell the full story of the weekend but many are not BLOG appropriate. Be on the lookout if you were in attendance for "the B.O.B. is 30 DVD"!

GEB the Greatest of AllTime!

GEB retires after the NYC Marathon!

Many of you probably have no idea who GEB is? Well you have lost out on following the prime years of the man who is probably the greatest distance runner of all-time and probably always will be.

GEB = Haile Gebrselasie from Ethiopia

Geb came on the scene back in the mid 90's and proved to be "the man" on the track and in the 5,000 - 10,000m distance. The best memory I have is watching him in person while at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. My Dad took me down for a 2 week jaunt at the Bob & Todd Distance Running Camp in Atlanta (Bob Kennedy and Todd Williams). During this camp I got to eat, sleep, and enjoy nothing but running! We had morning breakfast with Olympians, mid-morning workouts, then lunch and learns with Olympians, then afternoon workouts, then took part in being fans of all the runners and witnessing the Olympic Trials and Olympics first-hand.

Geb was always a freak of nature when he laced up the shoes. A few runners have been total icons of the sport; Steve "Pre" Prefontaine to American's a legend, AND Haile "GEB" Gebrselassie the legend! GEB has so many medals, wins, and records it's just nuts.

GEB not only said I got this 5,000 - 10,000m deal locked down, he then took on the Half-Marathon and the Marathon. The Marathon icon who holds the world record with a blistering 2:03:59 STELLAR!

Check out the"Journey of GEB: the greatest of All-Time!"



GEB could rule any distance from the 1,500meter to the Marathon! Yesterday, after having fluid in his knee that was present during an MRI on Saturday, retired after having to pull up at mile 16 of the NYC Marathon. I was hoping he could pull off a nice final Marathon victory but it wasn't to be and at 37 GEB now turns the flats over to the young guns!



Great career GEB you will be greatly missed and never another will come along who graces us with the ability and dedication that you did in distance running for over 20 years! Best part is you always were gracious to fans and never ceased to have a huge smile!

Enjoy your time off and thanks for the memories.............the greatest of all-time!

The Last Hoorah Week!

Well since it was recently learned that I did get that coveted spot in the BostonM this coming April. This past week was the last hoorah week for me so I hit the town and we hosted our Annual Halloween Frazer Freak-nic!

The week started with BH and I hitting the ole Neighborhood Night up at the Gin Mill. Both of us were "ridin solo" this week so we figured it was a good time to get some code blues, Monkey Bash, and Shuffleboard accomplished.

When we got there out friend "BulletH" quickly served us up some Code Blues and we began to kick off the bar-top games; Drunken Monkey, followed by a relentless round of Monkey Bash. MBash is simply a game where you have to tap-screen and time it all just right so that this crazy monkey guy throws office equipment out of a high-rise building and gets it to fly/bounce the furthest. It quickly came to our attention that some girl named "Katie" had the top score.......not for long my friends and what you see to the right is the result of relentless attempts to leave "WINNERS" at the end of the night.


BH was taking a rough beating at the ole Shuffleboard once again! Seems that I typically own Mr. Heth and the one known as Jorge Bulgaria Turtzo when they try to compete on the S-board! BH was struggling so bad he decided to do some Keg Lifts!

After this our friend BH did come back to beat me in a shortened game due to our running out of $1 bills. This is where the night concluded and we departed winners of about everything we attempted. Only to be revisited this week at the 3rd round of "Gin Mill Neighborhood Night"!

When Ape finally touched back down in the Queen City it was time to begin preparations for the Annual Frazer Freak-nic!" Halloween party at the house on Saturday. After many attempts over the years to grow a full-on-beard.........it's just not possible. Yet, my costume called for a pretty dang suhweet beard and some crazy hair. It's was time for "Operation the Snuggler" so I went out in the world via the "world-wide-web" and found the garb I needed. The night started off as "the Snuggler" and then turned to "ZachG from the Hangover" as you can see. The night ended with a fire-pit session and many headache wake up's the net morning at "da Boss' Crib".

After a week of fun it is now time to kick the training into high gear and start logging miles, while laying off the Code Blues. Although hey everyone has to have their cheat night(s) every once in awhile. Heck especially if they are burning the calorie/carb count I will be.

So CHEERS folks and please go check out the new BostonM: Run for the Kids BLOG and help with my fundraising campaign as well as Razoo: BostonM!