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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, Dec 05, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.56	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.56

It was about 30 degrees outside so I bundled up. Beanie, under armour tights and shirt, another long sleeve shirt and running pants, 2 pairs of gloves. It was sunny but cold out. It was a beautiful and very enjoyable run, most of it on snow packed trails, with a couple miles on the roads to and from the trails.

Ran for exactly 1 hour. 9:09/mile.

Just took it easy, enjoying a fun barefoot run in the snow. In general everyone at the dog park I was running through either looked at me incredulously or made some comment that I didn't hear because my ipod was turned way up as I was really enjoying running, and singing along to my favorite songs. I just smiled and waved. I was running at sing-able pace, and just really enjoying being out. I noticed that not ONE of their dogs were wearing shoes, and they all seemed to be having a great time running around too. Apparently you only need shoes to keep your feet warm if you're just standing or walking around.

Bare Feet Miles: 6.56

Night Sleep Time: 8.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 8.00	Weight: 189.00

Comments

From jun on Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 23:59:33 from 97.126.232.185

You beat me to the snow running. That is so cool that it is true that you can run in the snow. I really think I'll wait till I have fivefingers before I try it since the thing I fear most is what might be hidden under the snow. But I'm excited to try now. Great job the last couple of days.

From Aaron Kennard on Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 12:14:00 from 174.51.250.151

Thanks. Running on packed snowy trails doesn't pose much of a risk, but 6 inches of fresh powder over a rocky trail leaves a lot of surprises for sure. I was glad I had the ff's on for that. It still kind of boggles my mind though that its possible to run comfortably barefoot in the snow.

From redrooster on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 14:08:53 from 129.123.3.31

I think I will try a couple miles tomorrow in the FF in the snow. You have the sprints, right? thats what I have. I guess I will put on some injinji socks and see what happens! Are you going to run the bolder boulder in May in your five fingers?

From Aaron Kennard on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 15:20:07 from 174.51.250.151

Cool, good luck with that redrooster. I do have the sprints. It took me a mile or so to feel like my feet were really warmed up when running in the snow. Then they seemed to just feel pretty great. I may run the Bolder Boulder, and if I do it would either be barefoot or in my ff's. I'm planning right now on doing the Ogden Marathon in May and I think that's right before Bolder Boulder so we'll see. I am building up to barefooting a marathon distance, but I may be tempted to do ff's at Ogden if I think it will help me go faster...we'll see.

What do you say jun? Ogden marathon either barefoot or in ff's? I'm planning on it either way, I know you have a bunch of other big plans.

From jun on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 15:29:19 from 66.239.250.209

Sounds good to me man. I think I would do it in FFs. I doubt I'd be ready for that distance barefoot. In FFs I think I could almost do it now. I'll have to test my distance out when I get a pair.

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