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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.500.000.000.0011.50

Met up with Steve Young in Boulder, you know.. the famous football player...he's pretty into running now apparently, and about 100 pounds skinnier I'm guessing.

Anyway, we headed up to Walker ranch up flagstaff road.  Ran the loop once, then biked it in the reverse direction.  Such an awesome loop!  Loved every second of it.  It has 12-1500feet of ascent per loop (~7.5 miles), so nothing too steep, but enough climbing to make it a blast.

 Really enjoyed running with company, and then biking it was totally fun.  Walker ranch basically starts by dropping a couple miles down into the river valley, then climbing a couple up the other side, then dropping back down in lower, then climbing out.  Its really cool and beautiful, especially right now.  This fall has been treating us VERY right her in CO.  The weather has been phenomenal so far.  It can't last...its got to start getting cold soon, but in the meantime, its been so awesome.

Saw Tim and Nicole DeBoom running past I think as we were on our bike loop.   

I'm still itching to run some more though, I think I'll go out for a few more miles to loosen up the biking legs. 

***at 12:30

4 more miles around the dog park ~30 min.  Felt really good.  Seriously liking the run every day thing these days.  I feel like I'm going to be able to establish a really solid base this winter which will really help me improve my running on all accounts next year.

Cycling 2010 Miles: 7.50NB MT101 - Black 11.5 Miles: 11.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Faceless Ghost on Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 14:44:58 from 69.169.157.242

Steve Young is a runner? Seriously?

That's pretty cool.

From catherine on Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 14:46:06 from 69.169.157.242

You should get him to join the blog.

From jun on Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 14:52:00 from 206.53.153.173

Ha. Yeah he should join. That would be super funny. Your run sounds awesome. Get ready for the cold. We are sending it over very soon.

From Aaron Kennard on Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 15:06:51 from 24.8.144.22

haha...no, not really the footballer steve young. This steve young http://www.aruninwiththelaw.com/ a law student/ultra runner in Boulder.

From runningafterbabies on Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 01:14:51 from 24.10.211.135

You almost had me there. I met someone tonight that has run Squaw Peak 2x an he almost convinced me to try it. Then I remembered Julie Cs post about it. But I'm glad you enjoy it and found a buddy that enjoys it with you.

From Scott Wesemann on Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 18:10:11 from 75.165.249.90

Sounds like a fun run Aaron. You have been getting in a lot of those lately. Nice.

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