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Location:

Vestavia,AL,USA

Member Since:

May 31, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

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.

Personal Records
Marathon 2:39 (SLC '08)
1/2 Marathon 1:12.30 (Provo River, aided '08)
10K 34:16 (Track, sea level '00)
10K 33:15 (Des 10K, aided '08)
8K 25:32 (Crack of Dawn, aided '13)
5K 16:44 (Track, sea level '00)
5K 16:07 (Running of the Leopards, aided '12)
 

Short-Term Running Goals:

NYC Marathon November 3, 2019 done 

London Marathon October 3, 2021 done

Tokyo Marathon March 3, 2024!!!

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

https://pages.lls.org/tnt/al/london2021/awende

Long-Term Running Goals:

Enjoy being a Masters Runner.

Get under 3 hours one more time...

Personal:

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...
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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 331.25
RM 090416 Lifetime Miles: 136.06
Saucony Type A Lifetime Miles: 200.18
Nike Vaporfly Pink Lifetime Miles: 122.22
Saucony Ride #37 - Black Lifetime Miles: 56.50
Saucony Ride #38 - Neon Lifetime Miles: 53.50
Saucony Ride #39 - Grey Lifetime Miles: 59.50
Brooks Launch #38 - Grey Lifetime Miles: 65.25
Brooks Launch #39 - White Lifetime Miles: 57.50
Brooks Launch #40 - Blue Lifetime Miles: 54.00
Sun, Apr 27, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
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Day off. I spent some time last night looking over the marathon results. It is nice to reflect a little, I can't believe it was only a week ago. It seems like much longer. The toughest thing I'm dealing with now is deciding what the next marathon will be. For 8-years now I've only done one marathon a year. I've done this for a bunch of reasons but I'm strongly considering doing two this year. In any case it is cool to have finished 8th, in my 8th marathon, in 2008... I added a table to my marathon post for anyone interested. It takes a look at all my splits versus predicted along with average heart rate/pace/and elevation changes. Numbers are only as accurate as the Garmin but I still find them fun to look at...

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Phoenix on Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 14:33:00

Hey Adam. I've joined the blog with the user name of Phoenix.

From Bonnie on Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 17:42:35

Hi Adam! I was reading over your blog today (supposed to be working!) -- and wanted to respond to your post a week or so ago about orthotics. Dean used orthotics for almost 8 years and now is running in Nike Free's. It took almost 2 years for him to get all of the biomechanical "issues" worked out -- what he did (and still does occasionally) was run 3-4 miles a couple days a week barefoot on the grass. My understanding is that it helps build up the stablizer muscles in the foot and ankle that get weak after a long time in orthotics. If you are interested, I will give you his email and you can talk about it (or better yet, you two could run together sometime and talk about it - he works up at Huntsman).

Close by, although I pronate I have recently worked my way down to running in the Nike Zoom Haywards - I love them, and my PF is almost completely healed. The only "downside" is that my quads get tired when I wear them on runs longer than about 10 miles -- but I suspect that this too will pass and ultimately I will be much less prone to injury than when I wear shoes that have a high heal and are too stablizing.

Take care, get some work done -- I am trying but not really into it today!

Bonnie

From wheakory on Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 21:20:55

That's great your going to run another marathon. I really think that you will reach the ultimate goal of 2:35 in the next one.

From Adam RW on Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 01:55:25

Bonnie, Thank you for the info. Definitely get me in touch with Dean. Work was painful today. It is tough to live like a college freshman in your 30s. I have to find a way to not be up to midnight preparing talks... I guess old habits die hard.

Kory, I'm excited about the prospect but I haven't committed to anything yet. Though I'm sure I will. Very excited for Ogden for you and the 100 other bloggers it appears are running it!

From jtshad on Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:20:23

I think you definitely have another marathon in you this year. There are a lot of good fall marathons to consider.

From Jon on Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:29:36

I've never done more than 1 marathon, either, but this year I'm planning to do Ogden and St. G on the road, plus 2 trail marathon or longer runs (Logan peak run and Mid Mountain Marathon). I'm justifying it because my mileage will be much higher than ever before (i.e. better shape), and cause trails don't beat me up. 2 road marathons are very do-able for you, esp. if your second is in the fall rather than early summer.

From Jon on Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:33:23

I find your marathon splits interesting- very consistent, which helped PR. Being a tad fast miles 3-8 might have cost you a few seconds in the last few miles, but it looks like you ran a great, steady race. Normal HR increase at the end as you were fatigued. Was the last .2 a bit long on your GPS?

From Adam RW on Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:37:53

Jon, The last .2 came out as .3. Overall seeing the splits like that made me feel better about the race as a whole. The only thing I would have changed was to take an additional Gu at mile 21-22. Great job on the race Sat. It looks like you will be back and in tip-top form for the Marathon in no time.

From Jon on Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 22:55:34

Can you run sub-9 pace yet speedy?

From Adam RW on Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:18:00

Jon, I tried yesterday and my legs weren't too happy with me about it. I guess I can say one thing, I left it all on the course...

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