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Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race

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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

Sat, Aug 14, 2010

Race: Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race (104 Miles) 09:57:06, Place overall: 311

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

HO-LY CRAP! That was the most fun I have ever had on any mountain bike ride or any type of race ever. Seriously fun. I felt fantastic and full of energy all day. Literally zero tiredness, zero fatigue, zero energy issues. I felt strong all the way to the finish and it was odd to me to be blowing past all the carnage the last 30 miles of people cracking left and right. I honestly wished the race were longer at the end and was kind of bummed about having it come to an end. To the point where I was itching to go for a run after because I felt so good (I didn't end up running after due to lack of time though). I'll write a detailed report and post a video report of the race later. But needless to say I was really pleased with and absolutely loved doing that race. I went into it hoping to just have fun and that my legs would hold up for 10 hours. The legs held up perfectly and I had way more fun than I could have anticipated.

My full race report and video is on my blog here

Cycling 2010 Miles: 104.00

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

Comments

From Jon on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 17:19:37 from 174.19.181.220

Sounds like a blast. Not at all surprising that you did great. Nice job. Now you just have to convince Nan to let you drop $7k on a bike!

From jun on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 22:04:57 from 97.126.225.186

Way to go man. Glad you had a great time. Sounds like it was an awesome experience. Now, time to look forward to Quest for King's.

From Danny on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 00:07:27 from 24.19.35.209

NICE JOB! You are in wicked awesome shape. If you get in any better shape you are going to have to quit your day job.

From Scott Wesemann on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:58:27 from 66.239.250.209

Great job Aaron. Congrats on your race. I thought this might be a bit of a struggle for you since you just barely decided on doing it, but obviously you are in amazing shape right now.

From Bryce on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 00:10:19 from 174.52.190.220

Amazing! Strong ride for no real miles all year, really shows your all aroound strength. Sounds like it was a great time. Crazy cool that you had so much in the tank all the way through. What/how did you feul?

From Aaron Kennard on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:07:45 from 24.8.144.22

Thanks guys - it was super fun. I posted a video and a full race report now.

jon - $7K is way too much to spend on a bike! I just got my new replacement 29er which will do the job just fine.

jun - looking forward to Kings this weekend.

Danny - ummm...not even close buddy. But thanks. Looking forward to having you out here in a month for the steamboat 50.

Scott - I thought the same, but was pleasantly surprised.

Bryce - 1st endurance and vespa - but see the report for more details.

From Oreo on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 16:09:58 from 206.81.136.61

Nice. Awesome race!! Someday...

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