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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
Sat, May 15, 2010
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.500.000.000.0012.50

Today I ran from Eldorado Canyon, up the mesa trail, up Bear Canyon, to the top of Green Mountain.

Ascent was 1:16 for 6.25 miles - 12:09/mile

Total: 12.5 Miles - 2:18 - 11:06/mile - 5240 Ft of climbing!  I love running to the top of mountains.  Its the best feeling and the most scenic way to run!

Despite my low mileage recently, I am pleased with my fitness level increase.  Today I ran the 3 miles from the base of Bear Canyon to the top of Green mtn in 41 minutes.  The other times I have run up Green it has taken me at least 55 min.  Partially due to snow, but I can feel that doing p90X ever day has been improving my fitness level a lot over the past 6 weeks.  Another good indicator of improvement is 2 months ago I ran trails for two hours around flagstaff mtn.  Total elevation gain of 3600 feet, and I averaged 12:43/mile.  Today with 5200 feet of elevation I ran 20 minutes longer and averaged 11:06/mile, including slowing down a bunch going down because of the excruciating pain of stubbing my same toe twice.

The boy scouts on the peak snapped a picture of me in my pasty whiteness - this is my 4th run up Green mt. this year I believe.

 

 

Five Finger Treks Miles: 12.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 185.00
Comments
From jun on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 17:04:13 from 63.224.108.154

I hear ya brother. Nothing better than running in the mountains and getting to the top. Way to go.

BTW, I'm officially changing the date for the Quest for King's Marathon to 8/21. Be there!

From Aaron Kennard on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 17:18:08 from 69.18.151.138

Nice!! I will be there. That's going to be sweet! Thanks for changing it for me!

From Bryce on Sun, May 16, 2010 at 23:33:00 from 174.52.190.220

That's great improvement! Nice run on Staturday, great pace for a lot of climbing. Very impressive.

From Aaron Kennard on Sun, May 16, 2010 at 23:42:29 from 174.51.250.151

Thanks Bryce.

It seems like my GPS over estimates my actual climbing in general. I may be wrong, but my start elevation vs. the actual peak elevation difference was around 2700 Feet. Although there were quite a lot of ups and downs on the route, it doesn't seem like it was double that. But in any case at least if I'm comparing to my own gps past results its a decent comparison.

From Scott Wesemann on Mon, May 17, 2010 at 02:38:28 from 75.162.69.51

Very nice run and a really good pace. There is nothing better than a good mountain run that ends on a summit. Nice!

From Bryce on Tue, May 18, 2010 at 00:26:14 from 174.52.190.220

Ahhh! details, details, you killed it no matter how you justify it.

From Twinkies on Wed, May 19, 2010 at 21:25:52 from 134.24.147.249

Sweet run. Running to the top of mountains is a blast.

From Nan on Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:05:34 from 174.51.250.151

Man, look at those abs!!

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