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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

  1.  Quicker Quaker 5K January
  2. Boston Marathon - April
  3. ??

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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.500.000.000.005.50

P90X this morning, working legs and back.

Basically did hundreds of squat variations and about 100 pullups of different varieties.

Awesome workout, my gluts loved it, my upper body loved it.

Finished off with 15 minutes of Ab work which is just crazy hard, I only get through about half the moves, but it leaves me feeling fantastic the rest of the day. 

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saturday

I had great fun working out today.

Here's how the day went down:

P90X

  • Woke up at 6:30 and did an hour of p90X Kempo.  Basically just punching and kicking the air and doing jumping jacks for an hour.  Not a bad little workout actually.

Bike Ride

  • Then I went for a bike ride on my broken 2 speeder up lookout mountain.  Wasn't sure how I would fare riding straight up a mountain in my smallest rear cog, but it was FANTASTICO!  I LOVED IT!  I started in Golden with a 2 mile warmup to get to the base of lookout mountain, then I hammered out the 4.5 mile climb in 26:09 - a PR for me by over 2 minutes.  Which was highly encouraging since I have hardly been riding at all this year.  I was out of the saddle for nearly the entire climb just pumping away at an avg Heart Rate of 170.  It was a rush.  Then I kept climbing another mile to the 'actual' top of lookout mountain.  The place everyone tracks time is from the towers at the bottom to the post at the lookout overlook, but it actually goes up another mile from there.
  • When I got to the bottom I hadn't gotten my fill yet, so I rode back up again.  This time my chain was clicking the whole way for some reason, but I still loved it and felt strong.  But I turned around about 3/4 of the way up because I was ready to be done.
  • Total ride:  21.27 Miles - 14.4 MPH avg - HR 146 avg - Ascent/Descent: 3059 FT

Unplanned run...with a spontaneous extension...or two.

  • Running stats:  5.5 Miles - 8:13/mile - HR:  ?? - Elevation: 500FT up/down

 

New Balance 790 Miles: 5.50Cycling 2010 Miles: 21.27
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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