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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
Mon, Jun 14, 2010
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.007.500.000.007.50

No running this morning...got up at 5:30 to do some lovely community service though!  My reward for being an idiot...I get to do it all summer long...hurray!  Cleaning up trash and sweeping at the city auto shop is total joy, just in case you were looking for something to do in your discretionary time.

But I did get a nice fast run in in the afternoon.  The weather turned gorgeous and I snuck out for quick 55 minutes and got 7.5 miles in at about 7:26 pace - about 600 feet of ascent on the out and back.  Felt really strong coming up the last mile up hill. 

That's two road runs in 3 days for me, I better repent and get back up to the mountains where I belong.  But I do admit it is fun running faster flatter stuff sometimes.  Running is just great all around.  I feel so fortunate to finally be able to run far without hurting myself after over a decade of being stumped by the whole deal.

Five Finger Sprints Miles: 7.50
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From jun on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:41:32 from 66.239.250.209

Yuck. my first road run in three weeks is going to happen in about 15 minutes. You're looking fast though. How are the afternoon temps right now in Denver? It's hot here.

From Aaron Kennard on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 14:29:15 from 174.51.250.151

The temps are widely varying...it rained all weekend and then yesterday afternoon it was a perfect sunny and 70 degrees.

From Faceless Ghost on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 16:39:53 from 173.8.90.229

So the community service isn't voluntary? Is there an interesting story behind that?

From Aaron Kennard on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 16:44:20 from 174.51.250.151

no...unfortunately it is not entirely voluntary. Short version is I ran in a no trespassing area, but its a lot stupider than that. The longer version/apology letter is here: http://www.aaronkennard.com/2010/05/lifes-lessons/

From jun on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 18:21:50 from 66.239.250.209

Whoa! FG, I can't believe you haven't heard this story yet. Crazy.

From Faceless Ghost on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 23:58:53 from 67.169.248.86

That's rough, man.

From Faceless Ghost on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 23:59:43 from 67.169.248.86

Your incident reminded me of this:

http://www.fatcyclist.com/2009/07/02/fifteen-minutes-of-shame/

From Jon on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 00:35:13 from 75.169.137.207

That's a crazy story!

From Scott Ensign on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 20:24:17 from 67.41.171.191

I've got a lot of yard and house work that needs doing here. Any chance westminister would let you work off some of your community service for me here when you come to visit? :-)

From KP on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 15:53:54 from 65.208.22.26

FG - i love the fat cyclist website. he is hilarious!

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