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Location:

Westminster,CO,USA

Member Since:

Nov 11, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Finally started learning how to run in '09 after totally botching it up for the 14 years prior and dealing with chronic IT injury...have had zero IT band pain since fall of '09 and have run way more than ever before in my life...loving it.

PR's

Road Mile: 4:44 - Pearl St Mile August 2011

2K: 6:32 - Uni HIll 2K 2011

3K: 10:07 - West end 3K 2011

5K - 16:53 - Turkey Leg 5K 2011

10K - 38:38 - Butte to Butte Eugene OR 2003

Half - Never raced a half

Road Marathon - 2:57:19 - 11/12/2011 - solo.

Trail Marathon - 4:48 - Kings peak August 2011

55K - 4:59:54 - Moab red hot 55K 2011

Short-Term Running Goals:

Be healthy, run injury-free, listen to my body.

Sub 16 min 5K

Sub 34 min 10K

Sub 2:40 Marathon

2012 Tentative Schedule

Quicker Quaker 5K January
Boston Marathon - April
??

Long-Term Running Goals:

Get stronger, faster and more fit as a runner and biker to allow for bigger adventures as the years go on.

Still be running in my 80's.

Personal:

I'm married to Nan Kennard and she kicks my butt at running. She has beat me handily in every race we have done together except for a downhill mile we did once. She is my running inspiration. I'd like to run a marathon with her someday and actually keep up.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Bare Feet Lifetime Miles:						282.68
Cycling 2011 Lifetime Miles:						291.40
Altra Instinct July '10 Lifetime Miles:						637.35
Altra Instinct Sep '11 Lifetime Miles:						481.45
Altra Lone Peak Lifetime Miles:						157.50
Altra Instinct Black Lifetime Miles:						69.00
Altra Adam Lifetime Miles:						27.50

Mon, Aug 02, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
11.50	0.00	0.00	0.00	11.50

I got up early (5:15) and ran the Goshawk ridge trail loop today. The way I run it this is an 11.5 mile loop with 1235 Feet ascent.

The last time I ran this loop was Feb 12. That day I ran the loop in 1:54 - 9:59/mile.

Today I ran it in 1:38:51 - 8:36/mile - which was a comfortable pace.

Its cool to see the incremental improvement in fitness by looking back at past results.

This is a gorgeous run in the early morning. Its largely in the shade and pine trees. It's a pretty fast trail because its never very steep. I stopped running it for a while because I was more interested in the higher, steeper climbs. But it was really fun to come back to this trail and be able to do a faster paced trail run. I remember when I was running this in the winter the climb up goshawk ridge seemed hard. Today it seemed super easy. I guess that's due to fitness level and also being accustomed to 800+ ft/mile climbs lately.

Also enhancing the fun of the run this morning were the really great sounds of two albums I got recently: Band of Horses: Infinite Arms and Yeasayer: Odd Blood. I really enjoy a lot of the songs on both albums, and a couple songs in particular on both are outstanding.

Did an hour of pushups, pullups and core p90x afterward. Feeling groovy.

Inov-8 Roclite 295 Miles: 11.50

Night Sleep Time: 0.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 0.00	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From jun on Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:51:48 from 63.224.106.149

I dig Band of Horses. That trail sounds really cool. What a great start to the week.

From Bryce on Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 00:05:42 from 174.52.190.220

Great to map your improvement like that. And the improvement looks prety signifigant. Sounds like a great morning run, I really wish my schedual let me get out in the morning once in a while, envious for sure.

From runningafterbabies on Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 19:30:57 from 67.177.9.74

That is a huge improvement in less than 6 months! Impressive. Is the marathon you are running a trail marathon?

From Aaron Kennard on Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 19:35:54 from 174.51.250.151

jun - have you heard 'infite arms' by band of horses? really good, mellow stuff.

bryce - why can't you run in the morning?

runningafterbabies - yeah, the 'quest for kings' is a marathon jun made up going from the henrys fork trailhead to the top of Kings peak and back

From Scott Wesemann on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 00:41:32 from 75.162.91.8

Great work out Aaron. It looks like you're on your way to another impressive week.

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