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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
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

7 Miles - 1:10 - Pace: 10 min/mile - Avg HR - 126 - Elevation: 700 ft

Wow, that was slow.  I started out slow because I was warming up and my feet felt a bit stiff.  
Also the ground felt really cold for the first 5-10 minutes since my feet were bare and it was in the 30's initially.  I was really focused on making this run as comfortable on my bare feet as possible as compared with the 5K I did on New Years which resulted in pain because I pushed the pace too hard.  That resulted in a really slow pace today because that's what felt best on my feet.  Really quick light steps, but not pushing the pace at all.

 The result is that my feet feel great and other than the warm up, and a few sections of  really gravelly road, my feet were comfortable the whole time.

Bare Feet Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 188.00
Comments
From jun on Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:04:27 from 66.239.250.209

Wow, nice run. It was cold out there. It is so cool how the feet warm up.

From redrooster on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 21:53:07 from 63.226.92.94

I ran 7 miles on pavement in my FFs for first time yesterday, net elevation change of 500 feet vertical up Logan canyon. I was amazed that my feet felt fine. But that is as close to barefoot as I am getting. but still amazed by the result. going to try to put in about 12-14 a week in the five fingers for awhile and see how it goes.

maybe I will run the bolder boulder in the fives. are you planning on running it? if so lets definitely meet up.

From Aaron Kennard on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:27:28 from 174.51.250.151

Thanks. Yeah, it seems to re-surprise me every time I run in the cold, how they feel great after warming up.

red - That's great that you're feeling good in the FF's. That would be fun to qualify for the A wave, I bet I could get down to a 18:20 5k or 38 min 10K, since I did it barefoot in 19:39. But I guess I'll see how it goes, because I'm more interested in running far than running fast right now. That's a long way out though...I'm guessing I will be able to qualify and that would be fun to finally run that race, especially starting in the A wave.

From Adam RW on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 21:37:53 from 24.10.132.131

And what a nice heart rate, slow or not.

From Aaron Kennard on Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 23:53:43 from 174.51.250.151

Adam - yeah it is nice to see the low HR sometimes...and I'm noticing slight improvement in HR vs. pace. It's interesting to me to track HR as well as elevation change and pace so I can see a more accurate comparison over time.

redrooster - did you stop blogging? Last post I see is from '09 from you.

From redrooster on Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 22:15:44 from 63.226.92.94

sorry, got behind on the blog, mainly due to the sorry weather here sapping my motivation. But I am going to try to get caught up...

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