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Location:

Westminster,CO,USA

Member Since:

Nov 11, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

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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

Quicker Quaker 5K January
Boston Marathon - April
??

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

Fri, Nov 26, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.10

Well trail runner boys and girls...its confirmed...micro spikes are a critical piece of winter gear to enjoy full maximization of the beauty of the season.

I gave the micro spikes their inaugural break-in run this morning on a beautiful piece of wintery single track in Layton UT and they WAY out did my expectations of them. I was quite simply amazed at how awesome those things are for running on snow and ice. I found myself charging up super steep 30-40 degree+ inclines some of which were hardened ice only, with ZERO slippage. I felt I had more traction than if it were dry dirt in some instances. I cannot say enough good about that piece of equipment at this point. It made it an absolute joy to be out running in the winter beauty. Previously, I have enjoyed it, but the enjoyment was always accompanied by some annoyance with slipping/sliding/feeling like I'm going to pull a muscle/etc.

Not today. Today I charged up a super steep, icy canyon along a flowing river of ice without slipping once that I can remember. It was awesome.

Here are some pics I couldn't help stopping to take along the way of some of the winter wonderland beauty:

The Waterfall marking the end of the trail in the canyon I was running

A couple shots of the gorgeous sunny morning from the Bonneville Shoreline Trail...great views all along that trail.

Stats for the day:

8.1 Miles - 1:30 - 11:07/mile avg - 2450' ascent - Avg HR 140

Looks like about 1500' of the climbing was in the first 1.75 miles...pretty steep little canyon. The flatter rollier stuff was along the BST

NB MT101 - Black 11.5 Miles: 8.10

Night Sleep Time: 0.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 0.00	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Dorsimus on Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 14:28:02 from 75.162.129.29

I love the BST up here (and anywhere I've run it, really), and you've convinced me that I need to get some spikes. I think I'll have to throw it on my Christmas list.

From jun on Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:51:36 from 97.126.228.50

Nice run. I've by eyeing those spikes for a year now. Not only do I like how rugged they are, but they are a local company and that makes it cool too. Glad you got out for what looks like a very pretty run.

From Bryce on Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 22:10:03 from 67.186.213.216

Hey, nice run, that scenery looks familiar. Got your message about running, sorry I missed you it would have been fun, our flight ended up a day later than planned, so we didn't get home until mid-morning Thursday, which left me pretty strung out Friday with work and no sleep. Good to hear you like to Miro spikes, I've got Yaktraks and am not cray about them, gonna try the screw in the sole of the shoe thing or Micro spkies, your review might save me a trip to Home Depot.

From Aaron Kennard on Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 16:42:16 from 98.245.117.176

I highly recommend the micro spikes guys...I don't think you will be disappointed with them at all if Santa brings them too you...except that you may be disappointed that you missed out on the next 3 weeks without having them, especially on the trails by your houses...the snow seems to be in full swing there at this point rendering those trails a lot more difficult without the spikes. I still don't even have much of any snow on the ground up to 8500' over here, which is sure to change soon I think.

Bryce - no worries, we'll be catching up for a run in Moab for sure though! I've heard the yak traks aren't that great from multiple people...I really think you would dig the micro spikes. I was seriously impressed with how I could run full speed down an icy slope without so much as a worry as to whether I would slip. At first I was cautious not knowing what to expect, but once I could tell they were sticking, I opened it up and was really really pleased with the result.

From Dorsimus on Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 17:52:14 from 75.162.129.29

Sweet, I've got a promo code that'll get them from backcountry.com for like 35 bucks. I think I'll order some and see if my wife wants to "give" them to me early. :) Bryce, if you want to order some let me know and I can shoot you the code.

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