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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
2.000.000.000.002.00

Woah!  Not into the running thing today.  Could barely get myself moving as I stepped out the door, and proceeded to shuffle through 2 really slow miles before throwing in the towel.  Not feeling it, just felt tired and sluggish, and mentally not into it.  I can't remember the last time I felt that about running.  I think I'll go run again 4-5 miles easy on Wednesday and otherwise spend my time on core work and yoga this week until the 50K this weekend.  I'm looking forward to the week off of running actually, after the past 2 weeks of bigger, longer trail runs every other day.  I can tell I'm still recovering from that.  And I just want to feel completely fresh this weekend so I can fully enjoy all 31 miles of the race through the mountains.

I did an hour of core synergistics this morning after the pathetic attempt at a run, and that was just what I needed.  It felt great.  I hadn't done any core work or p90X for the past 2 weeks because I was running so much more, and I can really feel the benefit of it in my glutes, hams, and core.

 

Five Finger Treks Miles: 2.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From jun on Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:19:41 from 66.239.250.209

It's a genius plan. Enjoy the downtown. You will be itching and totally psyched to run come Saturday.

From Bryce on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 00:16:36 from 174.52.190.220

Uhhh! I went through that about a month ago, same thing, after a big block of running. On a girl's blog I follow she calls it the "bucket". Rest is good, you'll be ready to rip on Saturday. I read this on her blog yesterday . . .It will get you out the door and ready to race, at least it made me want to try harder, check it out

http://gosonja.com/index.php/ironman-coeur-dalene-the-run/

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