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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
13.110.000.000.0013.11
New Balance 790 Miles: 6.11Five Finger Treks Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.110.000.000.006.11

My foot is feeling pretty much back to normal today so I headed out for a run this afternoon.  I wore my NB 790's for some foot protection since my foot is still slightly tender, but I don't think I needed them, and they gave me a couple small blisters, so i'm back to the FF's next run.

It was a gorgeous run.  70 degrees and sunny.  My legs felt great.  I ran a pretty hilly almost 10K route on rocky trails and really enjoyed it (except for a few moments when I found myself pushing too hard to try to keep my speed up and then my lungs/legs started burning so I backed off a bit in order to enjoy it again.)  I felt it would be a shame not to fully enjoy the entire run because it was so gorgeous out there.

I ran 6.15 miles in 44:39 -  7:15/mile.  It felt good to get out and run hard.  My lungs were kind of feeling it toward the end though because they aren't used to working that hard.

New Balance 790 Miles: 6.11
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

That was an experience.  Good and bad.

I'm in Phoenix this weekend with the family because one of my real estate mentors Dan Doran flew us down here because he wanted me to be in his new infomercial.  So look for me soon on late night TV...don't ask me why I agreed.  He's a great guy though, really helped me out a lot and I wanted to do what I could to help him, plus it was a free trip and we can see some family down here.

So congrats to Nan who SLAUGHTERED the competition this morning at a local charity 5K.  OK, there wasn't any competition really, but she did slaughter it with a 17:30 5K.  There were only 2 other guys who could actually be classified as runners and they were multiple minutes behind her at the finish.

Then I headed to the hills 15 minutes away for a trail run.  It was a phenomenal morning for a run.  85-90 Degrees, on the hot side, but not too hot.  I really liked it.   I love running with just shorts and some water.  I found a trailhead in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve that looked cool and started running up.  It was a pretty easy/moderate uphill run for the first 2 miles that kept getting gradually harder and harder.   The last mile was a true butt kicker in every sense of the word, but I was ABSOLUTELY determined to run the entire way to the top (of the pass.  I didn't see trails to the peaks, and I didn't want to be away from the fam all day, so I settled for the pass as my goal from the onset which was a 3.5 mile run out and then 3.5 back.)

Well, I was within 1/4 mile of the top and I stubbed my SAME STINKING INJURED LEFT TOE!  Such a pain.  I was barely moving going uphill at that point in about a 16 min/mile.  It hurt decently bad and I had to stop and sit down for a minute.  Which bummed me out, because I was feeling awesome.

By this point I was so close to the top I wasn't turning back yet, even though it was now hurting my foot a little bit to run on.  I figured I had to make it down 3+ miles still anyway, so it wasn't going to make a difference to go a bit more to the top. 

But the next 1/4 mile was pretty much straight up.  I love super steep running, it feels so cool even though I'm going so slow, it just feels cool to keep running even though its so steep, and passing hikers and blowing by them at a sizzling 18 min/mile is kind of funny.  Its just funny that I'm going so slow and yet everyone else is moving at about 30 min/mile or less at that point. 

I made it, and I felt really good about making it and not bailing because my stupid foot hurt a little.  But coming down was really slow going.  I was ultra cautious with my foot and I descended the 3.5 miles back to the car probably 10+ minutes SLOWER than I had ascended it.  It was between 35-40 minutes to get up, and a total of about 1:30 of total time out.  I don't know because my watch died after 2 miles, and my phone battery died, so I had no clue what time it was.  

Also, on the way down, the pads of my feet started hurting a lot, it was the weirdest thing.  I think I figured out why, and it was because of all the fine desert sand that got in my FF's and was grinding against the front of my forefoot.

Super interesting roller coaster of a run.  Never had that unpleasant of a downhill run before, usually I really enjoy the downhill, but because of my hurt left foot and the pads of my feet hurting, it was just kind of surviving the downhill.  LOVED the uphill though.

And I'm really considering getting some different shoes to try out to protect my toes a bit better.  It seems that when I'm tired, I get sloppier and I'm at risk of painful toe stubbs, which seems to be a drawback of the FF's in mountain running.

So anyone recommend a great shoe with a TOTALLY FLAT sole?!  I really don't like a raised heal at all and I'd like to find a mountain shoe that will work as a supplement for me.   I love running in my FF treks, but I would like an alternative for certain occasions when I want more protection, specifically like right now when my foot is trying to recover from injury. 

Five Finger Treks Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.110.000.000.0013.11
New Balance 790 Miles: 6.11Five Finger Treks Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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