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Hey. I'm Tommy Kauffmann. Or Kauffee. Or TK. Or Mr. Kauffmann. I'll answer to pretty much anything.

I'm a history teacher and a wannabe-kinda-sorta-sub-elite-semi-professional-ish distance runner from Cincinnati. I've been running competitively since high school, through college (at Xavier University), and now post-collegiately for Fleet Feet Cincy.

In 2015 I accomplished my four-year goal of qualifying for the '16 US Olympic Marathon Trials, which I contested to less-than-stellar results. But hey, I was there, and that was the main objective.

My new goals are two-fold:
  1. Get back to the Trials in 2020 and really mix it up with the best in the country.
  2. Recapture the spirit of America's road racing heyday in the late '70s - early '80s, a no-compromises attitude that I feel has slipped away from the running scene in recent years.
The journey, as they say, is the reward; and this blog is my log of the journey. The ups and downs, lefts and rights, surges and slows...if you want to succeed as a distance runner, you better enjoy the process.

So check it out. Browse around. Stay awhile. And if you're up for it, let's go for a run...I'll always welcome company.

Oh, and because runners identify themselves by their PRs, here are mine:

1500: 3:55*
3000: 8:17*
5000 (track): 14:13*
5k (road): 14:33
8k (xc): 24:41*
10000 (track): 29:28*
10k (road): 30:12
13.1: 1:04:34
26.2: 2:28:28

* = Set in college, I rarely runs these events anymore.

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