Frank Pape

Age: 50
Events: 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1600m, Mile, 5k, 8k, 12k, Marathon
Hometown(s): Chicago, IL; Big Sky, MT; Redmond, WA
Colleges competed for: Stanford (BA, International Relations); George Washington (MA, International Affairs and MBA)

PERSONAL BESTS

100m - 10.6
200m - 21.8
400m - 53.8
800m - 2:12.6
1600 - 4:53.3
Mile - 4:54.1
5k - 17:14
8k - 30:54
10K - 38:59
12k - 51:44 (Bloomsday)
Marathon - 3:42:37 (1st Marathon, 6 months after knee surgery)

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Breaking a five-minute mile, breaking the 18-minute mark three times in my late 40’s And once in my 50’s (including this past October, two weeks before I turned 51, taking second overall in Get Your Rear in Gear to a former Harvard D1 XC Star/current coach of Cascade Striders by 4 seconds), winning 36 races outright, winning the same race three times (Kilometers for Cancer), winning our first 17 team races in a row with my team, No Brain No Pain, surpassing 100 races (133 and counting) in under a decade, qualifying for seven Second Seeds at Bloomsday, finishing in the top 100 (73rd, 75th, 76th, 79th, and 91st) on Doomsday Hill at Bloomsday out of over 50,000 racers each year, winning the Mt. Si Relays with my Mixed Masters team, running 27 5ks with my twelve-year old son (Pierce) and 21 5ks with my sixteen-year old daughter (Trinity), coaching Holy Family Kirkland XC and Track to multiple CYO team championships over the past eight years, running over 53,000 miles since 1988 (surpassed two trips around the Earth this fall), and finally, winning the inaugural Coaches’ Mile in the 2015 CYO XC Championships in 5:23 (at 46) and having my entire XC team run the last 150 meters with me!!!

About

Started running in 1989, after a highly successful collegiate ski racing career at Stanford University. Needed to keep my legs busy, my asthma at bay, and recover from surgery on my left knee. Ran non-competitively for about a dozen years and ski raced competitively again from 1998-2001. Had reconstructive surgery on my right knee in spring of 2001 and was told that I shouldn't run again, SO I spontaneously ran the Seattle Marathon in 2001. Continued running 30+ miles a week until 2008 when I started keeping track of my times and decided to run a second race, the Super Jock N' Jill 4.5 mile run -- I finished strong and was addicted. Since then, I've run 133 races (5ks, 8ks, 10ks, 12ks, Marathons, and Relays) -- I've won 36 of them outright, placed in the top three overall 47 times, in the top ten overall 80 times, and in the top three in my age group 107 times (taking first 73 times). I formed a racing team, "No Brain, No Pain", in 2012, and we've won 33 of the 35 races we've entered (taking 2nd in races #18 and #25), including winning the Mixed Masters’ title at the Mt. Si Ultras and Relays, setting the all-time record, breaking 7 hours and 7 minutes/mile on the 60.3 mile course — a feat never accomplished by a Mixed Masters Team in 37 years (and we placed 3rd overall out of 60+ teams)! You can find me on Athlinks.com!