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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
3.009.250.000.0012.25

Had a great run this AM with my buddy Eric.  Last tempo run before logan peak next week.

I'm not feeling too prepared for the 7400' of vertical i'm going to be assaulted by next week, but whatever.  It will be fun to go out and run in the mountains for 5 hours.  I am feeling pretty fit, but I'm better off on flatter faster stuff than the steep stuff.

Anyway, I PR'd up Bear Canyon to green mountain this morning by about a minute - did the ascent in 36:31 without pushing the top mile very hard at all.  Eric put a minute or so on me in the last mile which was cool to see for him.  He's got some serious climbing strength.  It was his first time climbing green mountain, so I was impressed.  I knew I was on pace to PR by a ways so I kind of cruised it in keeping the same steady effort on the steep last mile after I reached the 2 mile point over a minute faster than ever before.  Kind of lame perhaps not to go after it harder the last 10 minutes...but I didn't feel the need to go all out today, just wanted a solid steady effort with 3K in vertical.

Cruised the down hill in 24 minutes, faster than ever previously also, and just felt fantastic.  Really liked how my body felt today after 3-4 easy recovery running days. Even though I was running 80-90 minutes at a time, I was going easy, and I can feel the difference in recovery after a few days of that.

Totals including the warmup - 12.25 miles total - ~3100' vert - 1:53  - 9:13 avg.

 

NB MT101 - Black 11 Miles: 12.25
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Predog on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:48:18 from 24.10.142.244

I'm sure you heard about the impending course changes. Kind of a bummer, but it will still be gorgeous and the vertical shouldn't be quite as intense with no climb to the peak. Looking forward to seeing you Saturday.

From Aaron Kennard on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:50:12 from 98.245.117.176

Yeah, I heard that. I'm sure it will still be a blast though. I'm looking forward to an epic morning of following in your tracks in the snow as you kick all of our butts in a couple days! I'm going to take the RD's advice and bring my microspikes just in case.

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