David's and Jen's Wedding

Jen and I were married on March 30 at Deercreek Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida. Approximately 100 of our family and friends attended the ceremony from as far away as California. After a wonderful night of fine dining and dancing, we spent our honeymoon in historic Savannah.

Welcome

I'm a 37-year-old IT professional in Jacksonville, Florida. My educational background is physical anthropology and neurobiology, though I've recently returned to school for an engineering degree. My professional background ranges from law enforcement to web development and site management. I also spent several years as a DJ in north Florida clubs.

I'm an endurance athlete, recently running a number of marathon and half-marathon courses. I'm also a running coach with Team in Training, helping volunteers train for an endurance event while they raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. My goal is to complete an olympic triathlon next year and an Ironman triathlon by the year 2012.

My wife and I were recently married and live in the Fort Caroline area of Jacksonville. We have a Boston Terrier named Clancy. He's currently unemployed.

Quick Update

Jen and I are shopping for a house here in town. It will be a first house for both of us and we have an excellent realtor who is helping us look at houses in the Mandarin, Baymeadows, Southside and Fort Caroline areas.

Fortunately, we don't have to sell a house, so it's a great time for us to be shopping for a new home. We're trying to limit ourselves to an amount that will let us finish paying off our student loans in the next 4-5 years and actually finding more homes than we thought we would.

After training for the Disney marathon and then planning the wedding, we just want find a new place, unpack, and spend some time relaxing. I'm coaching a marathon team this fall, so we have little opportunity to do nothing!

Oh, and I'm getting my butt kicked at work, as usual.

News & Recent Events

May 28, 2008: Marathon Season Starts
I'll be involved again this year with Team in Training as the running coach for the UnderArmour Marathon (Baltimore) and the Nike Women's Marathon (San Francisco) both in October.

May 22, 2008: New Home
Jennifer and I finally found and bought our first home! We close on May 22 and are moving in on May 24. We'll post pictures once we've had a few weeks to settle in.

Mar 30, 2008: Wedding
After six years, Jennifer and I were married at the Deercreek Country Club here in Jacksonville. We had a beautiful ceremony with about 100 of our closest friends and family, and a wonderful reception afterward. We spent the following week on honeymoon in historic Savannah, Georgia.

Mar 8, 2008: Gate River Run
My second running of the Gate River Run, and my goal was to keep a 10:00 pace throughout the 9.3 mile course. I finished in horrible conditions (winds gusts of 40-45 mph) and kept a pace of 9:40. I'm very pleased with the run and looking forward to being in the 8s next year!

More news..

Site News

The last couple of years have seen a complete site redisgn (including the consolidation of several different personal sites) as well as a focus on becoming standards compliant. Due to other obligations in my life, I've come to make considerably less changes to the disign of this website. My goals for 2008 are to incoporate a picture gallery that melds with the current design. More importantly, I want to get the running site updated and post the pictures from the wedding in March. I've just been so swamped and will not get to this until after we move to the new house. Feel free to contact me with suggestions.