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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
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.0011.000.000.0022.00

progression run, 22 miles, last 11 miles moderate - 2:54 total time. 1300' vert. 7:00/mile avg last 11.  Splits: 6:28, 7:08, 6:22, 6:36, 6:49, 7:07, 6:48, 6:44, 7:47, 8:00, 7:35 - The last 3 were uphill and were pretty challenging today.  I guess that's one of the points though right?  It's a good thing my marathon course isn't that hilly, no way I could hold a 6:06 pace on hilly terrain for a marathon.  Frankly I'm not too certain I can hold 6:06 for a marathon on a flat course and that often feels pretty daunting, particularly when I'm struggling to hit 7:47 at mile 20 of a long run.  But the unknown is half the fun!  If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on the last loop of my marathon course being pretty painful.

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Comments
From Jon on Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 17:54:33 from 74.177.125.83

No worries, Aaron. Believe in yourself and your training. I couldn't even do 6 miles in under an hour a few weeks ago for a "long run", and ended up ok at my race: http://jon.fastrunningblog.com/blog--AM-Intended-to-do-very-challenging-/08-27-2011.html

From Aaron Kennard on Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 00:23:09 from 98.245.117.176

thanks jon, always good to hear things working out even when all the lead up isn't always ideal.

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