SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Mike Fanelli, a real estate professional with Pacific Union International in the San Francisco Bay Area, is about to claim an achievement that few other competitive runners can match: a lifetime tally of 100,000 miles.

Fanelli expects to run his 100,000th mile at the Philadelphia Marathon on Nov. 18. His first step on the road to his personal record began in the fall of 1970, said Fanelli: “This (quest) has taken me practically every single day for just over 42 consecutive years.”

The countdown to the last 100 miles is expected to begin the week of October 29, and Fanelli is enthusiastic about entering the home stretch.

“Here I am at 56, and I haven’t missed a single day of running since 2010,” Fanelli said. “My off day is a five-mile run.”

This achievement will put him into elite company. According to the website 100klifetimemiles.com, he will join a roster of only 53 other runners to reach this mile marker, including running legends and Boston Marathon champions Bill Rodgers and Amby Burfoot.

“Mike’s commitment to running is similar to his commitment to his real estate practice and clients,” said Patrick Barber, President of Pacific Union International.

“Mike is an exceptional individual with incredible standards of hard work and perseverance,” said Barber. “He’s the embodiment of elite performance both in his real estate life and in his athletic life, and we are thrilled to see him reaching this pinnacle of excellence.”

A highly accomplished runner with a gleaming resume, Fanelli ran his first marathon as a high-schooler in 1972 — the Philadelphia Marathon. His run next month brings him full circle, marking 40 years since his first foray into the sport’s grueling, 26.2-mile testing ground.

His best marathon time was 2:25 in Eugene, OR, in 1980, and he has twice won the San Francisco Pacific Rim Marathon, in 1988 and 1989.

He was captain of both the track and field and cross-country teams at San Francisco State University where the school record he set for the 10,000 meters still stands, 30 years later; he was recently inducted into the university’s Athletics Hall of Fame.

Fanelli is also a top-notch coach who helmed the USA National Team three times — in 1992, 1996, and 2000 — and has coached a dozen U.S. Olympic Trials qualifiers from San Francisco and Marin County.

Pacific Union is proud to support Mike Fanelli and applauds his unique achievement. Read more about his quest on the Pacific Union blog: Going the Extra Mile, in Real Estate and Running.

About Pacific Union International
Pacific Union International is the San Francisco Bay Area‘s premier luxury real estate brand operating in seven regions, including the East Bay, Contra Costa County, Marin County, Napa County, San Francisco, Sonoma County, and the Tahoe/Truckee area.

With offices in eight Northern California counties, Pacific Union offers a full range of personal and commercial real-estate services including buying, selling, and relocation.

Locally owned, Pacific Union‘s leadership operates with an entrepreneurial mindset and unwavering commitment to deliver exceptional service and expertise to ensure deep, long-standing client and agent relationships.

For more information, please visit us at www.pacunion.com, get our real estate news and insights at blog.pacunion.com, or find us on Facebook (facebook.com/puintl) and Twitter (@pacunion).

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Fanelli expects to run his 100,000th mile at the Philadelphia Marathon on Nov. 18. His first step on the road to his personal record began in the fall of 1970, said Fanelli: “This (quest) has taken me practically every single day for just over 42 consecutive years.”

The countdown to the last 100 miles is expected to begin the week of October 29, and Fanelli is enthusiastic about entering the home stretch.

“Here I am at 56, and I haven’t missed a single day of running since 2010,” Fanelli said. “My off day is a five-mile run.”

This achievement will put him into elite company. According to the website 100klifetimemiles.com, he will join a roster of only 53 other runners to reach this mile marker, including running legends and Boston Marathon champions Bill Rodgers and Amby Burfoot.

“Mike’s commitment to running is similar to his commitment to his real estate practice and clients,” said Patrick Barber, President of Pacific Union International.

“Mike is an exceptional individual with incredible standards of hard work and perseverance,” said Barber. “He’s the embodiment of elite performance both in his real estate life and in his athletic life, and we are thrilled to see him reaching this pinnacle of excellence.”

A highly accomplished runner with a gleaming resume, Fanelli ran his first marathon as a high-schooler in 1972 — the Philadelphia Marathon. His run next month brings him full circle, marking 40 years since his first foray into the sport’s grueling, 26.2-mile testing ground.

His best marathon time was 2:25 in Eugene, OR, in 1980, and he has twice won the San Francisco Pacific Rim Marathon, in 1988 and 1989.

He was captain of both the track and field and cross-country teams at San Francisco State University where the school record he set for the 10,000 meters still stands, 30 years later; he was recently inducted into the university’s Athletics Hall of Fame.

Fanelli is also a top-notch coach who helmed the USA National Team three times — in 1992, 1996, and 2000 — and has coached a dozen U.S. Olympic Trials qualifiers from San Francisco and Marin County.

Pacific Union is proud to support Mike Fanelli and applauds his unique achievement. Read more about his quest on the Pacific Union blog: Going the Extra Mile, in Real Estate and Running.

About Pacific Union International Pacific Union International is the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier luxury real estate brand operating in seven regions, including the East Bay, Contra Costa County, Marin County, Napa County, San Francisco, Sonoma County, and the Tahoe/Truckee area.

With offices in eight Northern California counties, Pacific Union offers a full range of personal and commercial real-estate services including buying, selling, and relocation.

Locally owned, Pacific Union’s leadership operates with an entrepreneurial mindset and unwavering commitment to deliver exceptional service and expertise to ensure deep, long-standing client and agent relationships.

For more information, please visit us at www.pacunion.com, get our real estate news and insights at blog.pacunion.com, or find us on Facebook (facebook.com/puintl) and Twitter (@pacunion).

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“They were not the prettiest miles I’ve ever run,” the San Anselmo resident said.

The last mile was No. 98,741 of Fanelli’s 42-year amateur-running career. He’s planning to pass the 100,000-mile mark Nov. 18 at the Philadelphia Marathon, the site of his first full marathon in 1972. It’s impossible to know exactly how many runners have reached 100,000 miles; Fanelli, a San Francisco-based real estate agent, said he’s been told the number is less than 60, which sounds plausible considering you’d have to run five miles a day for 54 years and eight months to reach the milestone.

“I really enjoy overcoming challenges. It lends great perspective in everything else you do,” he said. “When I’m having a difficult time professionally, I can always reach back and say, man, this is nothing compared to X, Y and Z.”

Fanelli, who turns 56 on Tuesday, first took an interest in running in 1968, idolizing Tommie Smith and John Carlos as they caught the world’s attention at the Mexico City Olympics.

“I wanted to be like them,” he said. “I couldn’t wait to start running track and cross country.”

The sport quickly changed Fanelli’s life. It taught him discipline, focus and goal setting — things that he’d lacked as a youngster flirting with the law on the streets of Philadelphia.

“Athletics is a great way to stifle that activity before you get into real trouble,” he said.

Fanelli started logging his miles in a yellow notebook every day as a 14-year-old, but he was just an average runner in high school. In college, he matured physically and learned how to be scientifically meticulous with his training regimen. He set a 10,000-meter San Francisco State record that still stands.

Other career highlights include running 5,000 meters in 14:37, winning the San Francisco Pacific Rim marathon twice and coaching the U.S. national team at three international competitions.

In the 1980s, Fanelli took up ultramarathon running, competing in races up to 100 kilometers; recently, he reinvented himself as a short-distance, 800-meter runner (two laps around the track), earlier this month, he qualified for the 2013 Summer National Senior Games in that event.

Fanelli said once he hits the 100,000-mile mark and passes 500 consecutive days, he’d like to get back into coaching, this time at the youth or high school level.

“Coaching is a very fulfilling part of giving back to the sport that’s been so good to me,” he said.

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