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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
23.500.000.000.0023.50
New Balance 790 Miles: 4.00Five Finger Treks Miles: 14.50Bare Feet Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

OK, I didn’t run a step of those 4 miles.  But since my miles are so pathetically light lately, I need to do something to make myself feel better, and I was legitimately on my feet on the same terrain as the steamboat 50, and I’m sure hiking is going to be a large part of my game plan come 11 days from now…SO I’M COUNTING IT!

Did a 4 mile hike with all 3 of my kids today, my 2 year old on my back, the other 2 hiking.  We did it in 2:05 of hiking time, all leisurely of course, and about 1200 feet of ascent.

See my blog for details and pics if interested 

New Balance 790 Miles: 4.00
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
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Did a pretty easy 4 miles at night in 7:40 something pace.  It felt good to get out and move.  Nan got home from New Haven at noon and it was great to catch up with her on all the details of her race.  It's really exciting to see how her confidence level  increased so much after that race.  Its fun experiencing fast racing vicariously through her...excited for what the future brings there.  A lot of cool possibilities.

Five Finger Treks Miles: 4.00
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
10.500.000.000.0010.50

 

 AM - Plyometrics and Ab Ripper X - 1:15

PM - I made it out for a really nice mountain run tonight up Bergen Peak. What a phenomenal trail. I have biked it before, but its even better for running. The trails up there are really great, and very runnable. I had a great time running with Patrick Garcia and John Gunderson, both of whom I hadn't met before.  Met Patrick through his blog, and both of them are doingsteamboat 50 next week as well.  John and I were together the whole way up, Patrick was a bit ahead of us for the last couple miles up to the peak.  It was dark the last couple miles up, since we started at 7:15 pm, and I forgot my headlamp in my rush out the door.  But Patrick had brought two and so between the 3 of us it was sufficient.

Great to meet you Patrick and John, look forward to running with you again next week in Steamboat! (well...I'm sure I won't be keeping up with you Patrick, but I'll see you at the start and as you blow by my on the way back)

According to Patrick's watch we did 10.5 Miles in 1:54 - 10:51/mile (not sure if that included the 5 or so minutes we stood around on the peak chatting and looking at the lights over the metro).  The peak is about 2200 Feet higher than the trailhead.  So maybe 2300 feet ascent total with some ups and downs in there.

Very fun run.  Felt really good the whole time, and the pain in my left hip was gone, so that was great.

 

Five Finger Treks Miles: 10.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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p90X core synergistics.

Took the day off running because my hip was kind of sore after yesterdays run. 

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Easy Mt. bike ride for an hour at 6 AM.

Then rode with my son Abe to the bus stop, so fun seeing him grow up and go to 1st grade.

Then an hour of p90X Lunges and pull ups.  

I set up a 90 day core specific p90 X routine for myself that I'm loving so far in my first week. I finally have time to do core work again now that my community service is a thing of the past.  So refreshing.  My new routine is Core Synergistics 2 days, Yoga 2 days, Plyometrics 1 day, Lunges and Pullups 1 day, and 3 days of Ab ripper.  I just do P90x during the time when I'm hanging with the girls while Nan is running, it works out really well.  Then I run or bike before or after that depending on who's turn it is to sleep in and how much work I have.  So nice to be back to that routine.  I can already feel the increased core strength benefiting my running again after just a week.  I'm sure part of the reason my hip started getting tweaked was because I wasn't working it and my other core muscles like I did in the spring.

 PM - Got some serious ART done on my butt/hip, knee and calves...loved it! 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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5.000.000.000.005.00

5 glorious barefoot miles on a sunny almost fall afternoon...close to 9 min mile pace.

Did yoga for 90 minutes, then went running super easy and felt great.  

Going to follow the easy, flat running theme for the next 6 days.  I'll get ART one more time on Wednesday, do core work every day, and I'll be ready to have a blast next Saturday.  Getting psyched for a 10 hour run on the Continental Divide Trail!

Bare Feet Miles: 5.00
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
23.500.000.000.0023.50
New Balance 790 Miles: 4.00Five Finger Treks Miles: 14.50Bare Feet Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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