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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
6.000.000.000.006.00

Today was the most enjoyable run I can remember in a looong time. And ironically it was on an indoor track at the gym without an ipod which I used to despise. My body just felt really good. My legs and feet have pretty much recovered from the shock of changing my running form, and so running just felt absolutlely great today.

I ran 6 miles barefoot at about 150-155 heart rate in 45-46 minutes.

A little blister on my left big toe started to grow around mile 3, by mile 4.8 it was annoying so I put on my FiveFingers and it didn't hurt anymore.

I didn't feel any knee pain at all. In fact, my knees and lower back are feeling great, better than I can remember them feeling in a long time. Its very obvious that changing my running form has significantly reduced the negative impact on my knees and back.

And on another note, while I was prancing merrily around the track for 6 miles, Nan was killing it in Longmont at the Turkey Trot 10K. She won (no huge surprise) the female race in 36:10 I believe. Nice job Nan!

Five Finger Sprints Miles: 1.20Bare Feet Miles: 4.80
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Weight: 190.00
Comments
From jun on Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 01:34:57 from 97.126.232.185

Welcome to the blog. This place is amazing. I really like your goal of running 30 miles on your 30th birthday. A few weeks ago I celebrated my 37th birthday by running my age (although I continued to run a bit further after I reached my goal). It was really cool. Like you I am also starting to change into a barefoot runner. I tend to feel better when I'm barefoot. I'll have to keep shoes for technical trail runs, but I plan to do everyone on the road in 5 Fingers (as soon as I get some). Good luck and welcome.

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