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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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In honor of the first mountain stage of the tour de france I decided to go ride my bike up a bunch of mountains.

Just kidding.  While I do love riding a bike of any variety, I couldn’t bring myself to spend the 3.5 hours this morning riding when I could spend it running over a few peaks.  I wish I had time to be bike and run a few hours a day…but alas, I have to choose at this point.  I still love watching the Tour de France though.  More this year than ever before since I just visited France and rode on many of the routes and mountains they are riding this year.

Today, being the first stage of that variety actually.  They climbed the tourmalet today, which we also climbed in May.  So I was pretty eager to watch the stage today.  The crowds were slightly bigger for them than when we were there.  Here we are standing at the top of the climb after riding it.  It was very similar conditions as the tour stage today with clouds at the top, but the clouds parted for us.  As you can see, there weren’t many people cheering us on at the top, as compared to today when the summit had thousands of people lined up all over the place.

Nan, Me, Matt and Ashley (my sis. and bro-in-law)

Within minutes of getting to the top, Jurgen Van Den Broeck showed up.  He couldn’t quite hold our pace as it turned out, so we beat him to the top.  But here he is pictured, in one of his training rides on the TDF route.  We chatted with him and his manager briefly.

On the stage today it was cool to see Frank Schleck attack the leaders today looking strong.  I like watching Frank and Andy.  Bummer about Radioshack all being pretty much beat down and crashed out of this years tour at this point.  It would be a total miracle if Levi or Kloden made it back to the podium at this point…not happening.

Anyway, as for my morning run, I got in 3 summits up the aforementioned peaks, about 5000 feet of vert. and about 16 miles on the route that I ran.  Tons of fun.  Took it pretty easy and was out for about 3.5 hours leaving at 5:45.

There’s a lot to love and enjoy about July.  But two things high on the list are long mountain runs in 65-70 degree sunshine and the Tour de France.  Its slightly harder to get started working each day I have noticed though.  Oh well…work can wait until August.

Here are some pics from this am.

1.5 miles from home at the trailhead

Green Mountain summit marker

Green Mountain/boulder view from Bear peak

S. Boulder peak from Bear

NB MT101 - Green 11 Miles: 16.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Cody on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 15:54:01 from 67.137.240.195

Nice!

I am cheering for the Schlecks too! Super cool run today!

From Bryce on Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 00:25:59 from 208.54.5.228

Nice run for a Thursday. Pretty exciting finish today, I was glued to the tv cheering for the Schleck boys. Cool you were able to ride that, looks beautiful.

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