Marathon Top 10 Finishes: 7 Bridges ('15), Utah Valley ('13), Salt Lake City ('08), Top of Utah ('07), and St. Louis ('04). Ran around the equator (24901.55) in 4,388 days.
And my largest challenge to date, raise $20,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in honor of my cancer survivorship and in memory of those lost to blood cancer...
DONE! $26,403.70
Grew up outside Chicago and joined the blog while I lived in Salt Lake City. Now living outside Birmingham. I am married with two daughters. Wife thinks I'm crazy for doing marathons. And yes I am crazy I'm a scientist for a living...
Continued with the “speed” theme and broke out my flats. Two
goals: 1. See that they still feel fine and break them in; 2. Get in some fast
downhill miles as practice for Des News. The weather was perfect, upper 50s low
60s.
Ran to the FireHouse mile and hit it.
5:00.11 HR 170
descent 209ft slight crosswind
Then I continued down into City Creek and up into the
canyon. The sun coming up was perfect. There is a clearing where the sun just
opened up and there were three hummingbirds playing in the light. It looked
like I was in a magic kingdom watching fairies fly around.
I turned around and
did the City Creek Gate mile.
4:50.00 HR 177
descent 234ft slight tailwind
Overall the run was great. My efforts on the miles were
about 90% of mile effort (as can be seen by the HR).
Avg. 7:32 HR 149
Adidas Adistar (flats) #2 Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.50
Nap Time: 0.00
Total Sleep Time: 6.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From JD on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 20:28:09 from 32.178.247.139
Good run. Sounds like a nice morning out there today.
From Adam RW on Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:24:42 from 155.101.152.103
No complaints.
From Jon on Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:49:01 from 205.149.142.66
If you have time to notice hummingbirds flirting around like fairies during the middle of a 5 minute mile, I'd say you should go faster... :)
From Adam RW on Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:56:35 from 155.101.152.103
My bad, the hummingbirds I noticed before I turned around for the mile. They always motivate me to run faster. Something about the speed of their wings. Dragonflies have the same effect on me. I am planning on trying again in a week to see if I can break my mile PR, aided or not I'd like to see at least one mile out of my legs faster than the marathon world record pace...
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