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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

Wed, Sep 08, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.50	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.50

AM - Plyometrics and Ab Ripper X - 1:15

PM - I made it out for a really nice mountain run tonight up Bergen Peak. What a phenomenal trail. I have biked it before, but its even better for running. The trails up there are really great, and very runnable. I had a great time running with Patrick Garcia and John Gunderson, both of whom I hadn't met before. Met Patrick through his blog, and both of them are doingsteamboat 50 next week as well. John and I were together the whole way up, Patrick was a bit ahead of us for the last couple miles up to the peak. It was dark the last couple miles up, since we started at 7:15 pm, and I forgot my headlamp in my rush out the door. But Patrick had brought two and so between the 3 of us it was sufficient.

Great to meet you Patrick and John, look forward to running with you again next week in Steamboat! (well...I'm sure I won't be keeping up with you Patrick, but I'll see you at the start and as you blow by my on the way back)

According to Patrick's watch we did 10.5 Miles in 1:54 - 10:51/mile (not sure if that included the 5 or so minutes we stood around on the peak chatting and looking at the lights over the metro). The peak is about 2200 Feet higher than the trailhead. So maybe 2300 feet ascent total with some ups and downs in there.

Very fun run. Felt really good the whole time, and the pain in my left hip was gone, so that was great.

Five Finger Treks Miles: 10.50

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

Comments

From jun on Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:19:57 from 66.239.250.209

Cool run. The only bummer about running in the dark is that you don't get to take photos. I definitely think you're ready for Steamboat. You should just go out and kill it.

From jess1 on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 20:47:04 from 70.146.159.152

aaron - I went for my first barefoot run tonight. So I've got questions. How long did you (or did you) have blisters on your feet? Did you just run through them? My calves were a little tight too. Did you just run through that? I loved the run. Loved, loved it. I could see myself converting over if I can get through the adjustment on the bottom of my feet.

Good luck on Steamboat tomorrow!

From Aaron Kennard on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 21:31:26 from 69.18.151.138

I have only ever experienced very minor blisters that are not painful at all after a day off. Blisters running barefoot means you're doing something wrong. Either going too fast for your current barefoot ability or running with bad form and pushing off too much causing friction.

www.barefootrunning.org, ken bob saxon is the guru on the subject and has gobs of information freely available and answers to every possible question.

Good luck! Take it slow, take it easy. It was a 6 month transition for me.

From jess1 on Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:48:15 from 70.146.159.152

Thanks Aaron. I'll check that out. Yeah, I got one pretty bad blood blister on one of my toes.

I guess Steamboat is still a week away for you. So have a great week of training and I'll be interested to read your race report.

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