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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
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Accidentally slept in and missed meeting Jason S. at 6:30 for our weekly Green mtn. jaunt.  So I decided to run up the reverse way up Bear Canyon.  Just over half way up bear canyon I met Jason and decided to cruise back down with him.  Ran back around mesa to the gregory trailhead, and then back home down baseline and up broadway. Finally started feeling warmed up and ready to run in the last few miles...kind of sluggish before that.

11 Miles -  1:57:29 - 1800' vertical

NB MT101 - Green 11 Miles: 11.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From jun on Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 13:17:20 from 66.239.250.209

So jealous. How is the snow and weather?

From Aaron Kennard on Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 13:31:12 from 98.245.117.176

The trails were pretty slow going up the canyons, lots of powder still since it dumped 8 inches on Sunday. Super fun coming down in the powder though. My microspikes are too big though, I need to down size, they keep slipping off to the side in powdery stuff.

From jun on Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 21:20:49 from 97.126.235.13

What size did you get? I have a large and wear a size 11 / 11.5 shoe. Mine seem to work fine. Dorsimus also has a large and wears a size 12, but he said his felt large at first too. He had to pull them up higher in the back. I think the issue is with the MT101s. There is so little to the shoe that it doesn't take up the volume of the micro spikes. Try wearing them with your 295s, that should help. Or, if you have small girlie feet than maybe you just need a smaller size.

From Faceless Ghost on Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:35:03 from 207.135.129.5

That sounds like a good morning to me.

From Aaron Kennard on Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:10:35 from 98.245.117.176

jun - I wear size 11. But yeah, the 101's are a small shoe, which contributes to the slippage. Tony K. wears 10.5 and he uses a size small in microspikes. I think I will either return the larges or sell them and get medium or small spikes, because I like running in the 101's better than the 295's and I already drilled screws into the 295's anyway.

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