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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
Mon, Dec 28, 2009
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.100.000.000.0013.10

It was in the low teens this morning in Salt Lake.  

I met up with my good friend Danny, we both happened to be in Salt Lake for the week from out of town.  We had a really easy enjoyable run for close to 2 hours.  It was great.  It's crazy how fast the time flew by since we were catching up on stuff and chatting the whole time.  I felt like I could have kept going for a long time at that pace which is a good feeling.  

I'm currently training to be able to run 30 miles on my 30th B-day in February and I don't care at all about how fast or slow I do it.  My only goal there is to build up the endurance to comfortably do that without needing a lot of recovery and without injuring myself.  Here are the stats for today:

13.1 miles - 1:54:07 - 8:43/mile avg - HR: 136 avg - Really flat, easy run along the JRP trail, redwood road, and the legacy trail for a bit. Some sections of the legacy trail were slower going due to snow/ice/crud all over the trail, but most of the run we clear asphault.

Five Finger Sprints Miles: 13.10
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Jon on Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 14:57:01 from 174.19.199.72

If you can run some/all of your 30 miles on dirt or grass, it might help avoid injury.

From Lyman on Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 14:58:11 from 75.169.188.83

I was sooo tempted to run the Legacy Highway trail today but ended going to the gym wife my wife. Should have gone, I would of seen you guys.

From Aaron Kennard on Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:03:02 from 24.2.84.184

Thanks Jon, I probably will. There are some really great single track trails that I can easily piece together 30 miles on right by my house. I just hope there's not snow on them that day.

Lyman - you didn't miss much on the legacy trail, it was all cruddy and icy for a lot of it, so we bailed on that and went on the roads back to the jordan river trail which was nice and clear.

From redrooster on Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 16:16:58 from 70.234.2.232

you deserve an endorsement contract from vibram with these kind of miles in the five fingers and in this weather. nice job.

From jun on Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 13:19:13 from 63.224.104.209

Way to go Aaron. I still can't get past 7 miles in my VFFs without my calves getting really tired. I'm trying to keep my running in them to about 3 days a week or so until my muscles can get stronger.

Good luck in the 5k tonight.

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