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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

Fri, Jun 04, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
2.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.00

Getting so stoked for 31 miles of pure gorgeous weather mountain running beat down tomorrow morning! Have I ever run 31 miles before? No sir I have not. Will I tomorrow? Most likely not...since I'll probably be reduced to walking at some points. But I'm certain of 1 thing...I will be making the 31 mile trek whether I have to walk half of it or not.

I didn't run this week since the Bolder Boulder until this morning I just did a nice and smooth 2 miles barefoot to keep loose. My calves were kind of sore all week, just been rolling them, doing yoga, core synergistics workouts, etc. I'm feeling pretty groovy now and ready to rock and roll.

My buddy Jentry who I've known since kindergarten T-ball on the cubs is driving here from Salt Lake right now...I'm totally excited that he decided to join me, and it is the virgin ultra-marathon for both of us, so we both have no clue...which is cool.

And the weather is slated to be an amazing 70 degrees in the mountains tomorrow! I predict it's going to be an incredible time. Race starts at 6:00 am...I hope I can fall asleep!

Bare Feet Miles: 2.00

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

Comments

From KP on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 14:13:51 from 65.208.22.26

good luck! i can't wait to read the report. are you going with your vibrams or your new inov-8's?

From Nevels on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 14:55:54 from 131.204.15.93

Good luck...

(or should I say "Welcome to the Dark Side?".....)

From runningafterbabies on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 16:06:13 from 67.177.9.74

An awesome 10k and a 31 miler in the same week? I can't wait to read your report.

From Scott Wesemann on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 16:07:07 from 66.239.250.209

Good luck on your race.

From Jon on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 17:34:34 from 138.64.8.52

Good luck!

Remember- go easy (walk) the uphills and don't start out too fast! And make sure you eat/drink the whole time. You'll do great and have a blast.

From Aaron Kennard on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 18:43:22 from 174.51.250.151

KP - I'm going in my inov-8 roclites. I don't want to risk the stubbing of my same toe hampering the day for me in the FF's. Also, I can go faster downhill in the roclites than the treks, so since it is a race after all, I guess that's a plus.

Nevels - I guess I might not know what to make of that until I get to the other side, but thanks for the welcome to another side of somewhere/thing!

runningafterbabies - yeah...probably not the wisest race plan to do all my races in the same week, but we'll see how it goes!

Thanks Scott.

Jon - How do you determine which hills and when to walk, do you just judge by exertion level? From my experience in 10 hour cycling races I think I am best off keeping my heart rate in general near the 7-10 hour sustainable pace which is in the 150's to mid 160's tops for me. high 160's and 170's is only sustainable for an hour or so and then I'm cooked. So would you say that is a good way to judge when I should walk or run, just trying to keep my heart rate below mid 160's?

From Nevels on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 18:54:30 from 75.143.66.16

Jon may have the wisdom of the faster runner, but my 2 cents would be that you are exactly right; judge when to walk based on your perceived exertion level. Early and through the middle stages, you don't want to "red line" too much.

From Bryce on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 21:42:06 from 174.52.190.220

Good luck Aaron! I'm stoked for you, You're never going back to road runnning after tomorrow! HA!

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