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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
9.270.000.000.009.27

What a beautiful morning to be running through the mountains!!  Sunny and 40+ Degrees.

 

Here are my stats from the run:

 9.27 Miles - 1:57:54 - 12:43/mile - HR: 144 avg - Ascent/Descent: 3600 Ft.

We didn't make it up Green Mountain because it was a bit icy so we ran around on flagstaff mountain instead.

What a fun morning.  I really wanted to keep going for another couple hours...but that will have to wait for another day.

Five Finger Treks Miles: 9.27
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 186.00
Comments
From Scott Wesemann on Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 17:32:13 from 75.162.73.244

What a nice day. Your stats are almost identical to ours. It looks like you guys had a fun time out there. Nice job. I liked the video.

From Bryce on Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 17:49:54 from 174.52.190.220

Looked like a great day! That's a good amount of climbing. Nice on the video, Sometimes its good to see it rather than just read about it. Congrats to Nan on her first trail run?.

From Aaron Kennard on Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 17:55:29 from 174.51.250.151

Yeah, that was interesting to see how close those stats were scott...looked like a great run you guys had also.

Bryce...well...it definitely wasn't Nan's first trail run. She actually won a 10K trail run in breckenridge last summer. I guess what I meant by that was it was her first mountain trail run this year. Her calves were burning like mine were last monday on my first peak ascent. It's cool how quickly the body gets accustomed to the steep running, Today I felt so much stronger on the hills than last Monday.

From Scott Ensign on Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 20:26:57 from 65.100.253.126

Aaron, the camera work is a little shaky, we will have to work on that if you decide to be pro :-) but a cool video and great idea. you need to get Nan into some treks.

I just commented on your video in youtube. my alias there is "askdrscience". just so you know it was me. the redrooster. Scott. askdrscience. or whatever.

From jun on Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 01:58:06 from 97.126.237.192

Not to call out the differences, but you had 3600 ft of gain/loss. We had 3575 of just gain. Double ours for a total gain/loss of about 7000+. Unless, yours was 3600 up and down too. Not sure what you meant.

I won't lie though, your run looked better. Ha. Congrats on what can only be categorized as a perfect day.

From Aaron Kennard on Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 07:46:18 from 69.18.151.138

Dr. rooster - unfortunately my phone camera doesn't come equipped with one of those weighted stabilizers so its destined to be shaky if I run while videoing...oh well, the better to make you all sick with!

Jun- by "gain/loss" I mean 3600 up and 3600 down, so we were about the same. My garmin actually said 3507 ascent and 3715 descent, which doesn't really make sense since I started and ended at the same place...so I just chose the number in between. It was a great day, and after a week of only steep trail running, I'm finding myself deeply addicted...I think I need to go for a flat barefoot run here soon just to keep myself grounded or I might find myself only wanting to run up mountains all the time.

From jun on Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 15:21:47 from 97.126.237.192

Oh, right. We were the same then. That is so crazy. Your run still looked prettier, although ours wasn't too shabby. I cant complain.

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