Name: Christopher DeanNickname: Dean
E-mail: deannerz@yahoo.com
Why you decided to be a coach this year: I really enjoy marathons. I try to be as involved as I can, since I haven’t picked my next marathon coaching is one way for me to help others enjoy there next race.
Running history: I have been running for 20 years. I started in middle school and haven't stopped. I ran for Div I on scholarship and tried to get a stunt on the pro tour for three years after college (Never scored a point). I ran many races in those years; half and full marathons were my favorite. After many years of racing against (and always losing to) Keith Dowling, I asked him to join me in forming the National Marathon that runs in DC. After its first year I stepped down as Assistant Race Director to start my own company, and since then I have only been running recreationally.
I am motivated by constant improvement. I am always trying to better myself. This philosophy is the story of my racing, career, and family life. I am also an avid Hasher, dad, and entrepreneur.
Marathon Race History: Feels like too many to list. In total about 15 marathons in the last ten years. My PR is 2:33:32.
Top 3 Marathon Training Tips:
1) Learn by doing: Insanity can be defined as expecting different results from the same actions. Training can be insane but racing shouldn’t be. Don’t expect a good race if you are trying new things that day like drinking Gatorade or eating gels for the first (few) times. The body needs to train to do everything you do on race day.
2) Quality over quantity: This may sound like an oxymoron coming from me since I use to train 140 miles per week, but it’s true. Running that much you do a lot of “Junk Miles” which help builds muscle mass and teaches’ your body how to burn carbohydrates better, but they are often slow and when you’re exhausted. Focused runs such as speed work and long runs near race pace provide critical workouts that will significantly enhance your PR. Junk miles are called junk for a reason.
3) Dress for success: At work you dress for the position you want to be promoted to, this works in running too. Being prepared for the weather that you train and race in can mean the difference between hitting a goal and hitting the wall.
Preferred Running Fuel:
Drink: Water
Food: oranges
Age: 34
Hometown: Queensbury, NY. My hometown is the first township in the Southern part of the Adirondacks. I grew up running up and down mountains through unlimited miles or wide dirt trail. It was perfect beauty, never mind the biting horse flies.
Occupation: Downstream Energy Specialist with a side career is sports marketing & logistics.
Random fact:
I spent one week every summer during middle-school volunteering on a dolphin research expedition. I would help the crew perform the dolphin research via video taping, sailing the crafts, and general boat hand duties. For this I got to live on the boat in Key West for free during that week. At night I would volunteer crew for local bands playing at Hogs Head Saloon on Duval Street, allowing me into the bar to listen (sorry no drinking) to bands.
After the Boston Marathon in 2002 a reporter from the Washington Post came up to me and interviewed me for 5 minutes. She said when she started that I was the first DC area finisher (I was about 99th place in 2:36). Exhausted but thrilled to get interviewed, I talked to her instead of getting a post race massage. Then she finishes the interview with, “Well you might not make the newspaper because Keith Dowling finished in the top 15.” Of course he was the write up the next day.
Coaching philosophy:
2) Quality over quantity: This may sound like an oxymoron coming from me since I use to train 140 miles per week, but it’s true. Running that much you do a lot of “Junk Miles” which help builds muscle mass and teaches’ your body how to burn carbohydrates better, but they are often slow and when you’re exhausted. Focused runs such as speed work and long runs near race pace provide critical workouts that will significantly enhance your PR. Junk miles are called junk for a reason.
3) Dress for success: At work you dress for the position you want to be promoted to, this works in running too. Being prepared for the weather that you train and race in can mean the difference between hitting a goal and hitting the wall.
Preferred Running Fuel:
Drink: Water
Food: oranges
Age: 34
Hometown: Queensbury, NY. My hometown is the first township in the Southern part of the Adirondacks. I grew up running up and down mountains through unlimited miles or wide dirt trail. It was perfect beauty, never mind the biting horse flies.
Occupation: Downstream Energy Specialist with a side career is sports marketing & logistics.
Random fact:
I spent one week every summer during middle-school volunteering on a dolphin research expedition. I would help the crew perform the dolphin research via video taping, sailing the crafts, and general boat hand duties. For this I got to live on the boat in Key West for free during that week. At night I would volunteer crew for local bands playing at Hogs Head Saloon on Duval Street, allowing me into the bar to listen (sorry no drinking) to bands.
After the Boston Marathon in 2002 a reporter from the Washington Post came up to me and interviewed me for 5 minutes. She said when she started that I was the first DC area finisher (I was about 99th place in 2:36). Exhausted but thrilled to get interviewed, I talked to her instead of getting a post race massage. Then she finishes the interview with, “Well you might not make the newspaper because Keith Dowling finished in the top 15.” Of course he was the write up the next day.
Coaching philosophy:
It’s all fun and games until you miss your run.
Famous person you'd most like to run with:
Jimmy Buffett has turned every failure into successes. He almost never gets radio play, he's rarely ever been in the top ten chart, and has had personal failures that top career blunders. Yet the man turned himself into the richest singer ever with earnings estimated at $100 million a year.
I would love to hear what he has to share.
I would love to hear what he has to share.
