Bob began running many years ago while attending high school at Most Holy Rosary in Syracuse. He participated in cross country and indoor and outdoor track. When his son Marty began running cross country for Bishop Ludden three years ago, Bob took on a renewed interest. At the time, he was trying to lose weight. While Marty was running, Bob would walk. It was not long before Bob too was running and within weeks he ran in his first race, the Bruegger’s Halloween 5K at Beaver Lake, finishing in 28.03.

Soon, Bob and his son were running at about the same ability. However, like many of us who have children involved in the sport, those days of keeping up with our kids do not last long and with Bob, it was no exception. That day came at the 2000 Skunk Cabbage 10K. After dragging his son to the turnaround point, Marty suddenly got a second wind and sped by his father, calling out that he would see him at the finish line. According to Bob, "since then, I only see him at the start and finish!"

Training for Bob consists of about 15 to 30 miles of running a week. During the winter he adds some speed work on the track. The rest of the year he likes to do easy speed work in the middle of easy runs. Threshold runs are his favorite type of training run, as he always feels energized by them.

Bob participates in approximately twenty road races a year along with a few track meets. He belongs to the Noontime Runners League which practices at Manley where the workouts can be intense. "Some of those time trials feel like races!" Along with his desire to stay injury free, Bob’s running goals are to get faster in distances from the 800 to 5000 meters. He recorded his best times the first year after he began running again, and he would like to take a crack at breaking some of those pr’s which include 800 meters (2:42), mile (5:59), 3000 meters (11:55) and 5000 meters (21:02.)

Along with his track running, Bob continues to do road races. He does not have a favorite, but likes the great field and fast times at the Festival of Races. He also enjoys the opportunity to do some cross country running by participating in the Midsummer's Night Dream 5K. He looks forward to a couple longer races each year such as the Boilermaker 15K and the Mountain Goat 10 miler, and hopes to try a half marathon someday. Most of all, he enjoys attending races that involve long trips with Marty, where they have a chance to talk about the event and more along the way. They have traveled to races in Rochester, Ithaca, Boonville, Croghan and Watertown, and occasionally enter races when they are away from home on vacation, such as the 15K they entered together in Greenbelt, Maryland on Labor Day, 2000.

Married to his wife Kathy for 31 years, they reside in Syracuse. They have three children; Eileen, Ed (who occasionally does some road races himself and is getting faster all the time) and Marty. Bob has worked for Chase for the past 19 years where he is a computer programmer. He has volunteered as a Little League coach for eight years. He enjoys music, with Scottish and Irish fiddle music and classical being some of his favorites. He attends symphony and chamber music concerts whenever he gets the chance. He also likes watching sports and regularly attends LeMoyne basketball games. Along with all his other activities, Bob spends some of his spare time doing what he considers his only cross training- dancing. For many years he has been an active square dancer and for the past thirteen years, he has been calling Contra and square dances throughout New York, Pennsylvania and Ontario. Every once in a while he will even play fiddle at one of the dances. His weekends are always busy, usually attending a race, a dance, or calling a dance, and on some occasions, all three!

January, 2003