Chris Kupczyk

Q: What is your favorite running trail?
In-Town—Custis. Close to home, and a good hill workout to boot.
Out-of-Town—Des Plaines River Trail, Lake County, IL (northern Chicago suburbs). Thirty miles of crushed gravel through a nature preserve.

Q: What is your favorite SLR trail (if different from favorite running trail)?
Ross Drive

Q: What SLR trail should Max and other course planners never have charted and exposed unsuspecting runners to?
Last May we went up the Capital Crescent and through some neighborhoods off Mass. Ave. It poured most of the way, so my directions disintegrated and I ran around aimlessly until I found some other lost SLR folks. But I guess I can’t blame Becky for the rain.

Q: What’s on your race schedule this year?
Cherry Blossom, Spring and Fall LMI (my employer) 3-Milers, Army 10-Miler, and a fall marathon (location TBD)

Q: What’s your favorite marathon?
Philadelphia Marathon (the only one I’ve done)

Q: What would you say was your most memorable race?
Philadelphia marathon

Q: My Run from Hell, or the Run I Should Never Have Embarked Upon, is . . ?
Lunchtime runs on a Code Red day

Q: What’s your best marathon time?
3:58:23

Q: What is your average mile pace during SLR runs?
Varies between 8:00 and 8:45

Q: What’s the best running shoe you’ve ever worn?
Asics 2080

Q: What do you currently run in?
Asics 2080 and New Balance 763

Q: How many pairs of running shoes do you use per year?
Four to five

Q: What is the funniest thing about your current job? (No need to divulge any classified information.)
Having to ask people what they just said after they utter an entire sentence comprised of nothing but military acronyms

Q: What’s the worst job you have ever had?
SLR refreshments manager (just kidding!). Hmm . . . fry cook at Wendy’s?

Q: Name your favorite pizza.
Deep dish pepperoni and mushroom

Q: What is the most recent book you’ve read?
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin

Q: Who is/are your favorite Nobel prize winner(s)?
Lech Walęsa. Gotta’ go with a fellow Pole.

Q: If you were a car, which car would you be?
Lotus Seven

Q: Caribbean Cruise or Appalachian Trail Hiking? Why?
Trail hike. Packaged tours are fine, but they don’t really appeal to me. (A Caribbean fishing trip on a sailboat would be another matter, though.)

Q: Preferred Starbucks espresso drink?
I prefer the free coffee at the office.

Q: Top three movies ever seen?
Impossible to narrow it down to three, but:
1. Vertigo
2. L.A. Confidential
3. The Right Stuff

Q: What’s your preferred (or least repulsive) Gatorade flavor?
Orange