ABOUT ME

I was born in Croatia and moved to NJ when I was 2 years old.

I am married to my beautiful wife Dana and have been blessed with 3 great children (Quinton-12, Blaine-6 and Chance-1).

My oldest child has been diagnosed with several disabilites several years ago and I have committed to raise money and awareness to a local charity, Pathways for Exceptional Children) who's mission is to make a difference in the lives of those with special needs, by running a marathon in each of the 50 states withing 50 months.

PHILOSOPHY

Worry only about those things in life that you can control.

Don't complain, act on changing an undesirable circumstance.

Nothing is implossible.

Interests

Spending quality time with my family
Meeting new people and sharing experiances
Running marathons

• marathon
• running

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have traveled the US and run a marathon in 47 of the 50 states. I have seen some beautiful places but more importantly met some even more amazing people.

Teach, Learn, Share

I ran my 1st marathon back in November 2005 (NYC Marathon) and soon after decided to take on the challenge to run 50 marathons in 50 states within 50 months. I dedicated my goal to raise money and awareness to a local charity, Pathways for Exceptional Children whose mission is to teach communities to embrace children with disabilities and collaboratively find answers that will benefit not only children with special needs, but all children, in their quest to become actively involved, self sufficient, and contributing members of society (clearly I plagiarized that from their website as I am not clever enough to come with that on my own).

When most heard of my goal they were convinced I was delusional and that my body would fail early in the journey. Well here I am 45 months later with 47 states under my belt and felling stronger than ever. Sure, I had some set backs but I just took my foot off the gas when my body started to feel over stressed and picked it back up when appropriate.

Clearly you could really do ANYTHING you set your mind to by taking seemingly impossible tasks and breaking them down into small manageable parts.

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