'Hobby jogger' sets PR in fastest time at 2026 Milwaukee Marathon
David Vannucchi was an accomplished runner in high school and college, but the Milwaukee Marathon was his first 26.2-mile race at full strength.
David Vannucchi has rock-solid running credentials. He was a three-time WIAA cross-country champion at Luther High School in Onalaska. He was a distance runner at the University of Wisconsin.
But now that the 24-year-old Vannucchi is a financial analyst , he makes it sound like he’s just like any of the over 4,000 runners who participated in the Journal Sentinel Milwaukee Marathon on April 11. “To be honest, I haven't really kept up with running as much as I should,” he said. “I describe myself as a hobby jogger these days.
“I’ve had some solid training the last two months, so I was able to get my legs back under me. But I’m definitely not in the same shape I was back in college. ” So Vannucchi didn’t just roll out of bed and finish the race in 2 hours 30 minutes and 24 seconds for the overall fastest time.
But he did kind of just sign up for the race on a whim after his former UW teammate Tony Adriansen won the event last year . Vannucchi hadn’t even really studied the course. “I looked at the map online, but I really had no idea,” he said.