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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.000.000.000.008.00

I have to admit my EYES ARE OPEN!!! I didn’t realize how large the blog had grown. Initially I was going to post my vote request to everyone who posted in the last three days. However, I only had a 15 minute break so I barely made it through today and it isn’t even over yet!!! That is truly amazing. That does bring to question a different discussion going on right now (http://fastrunningblog.com/forum/index.php/topic,338.0.html). I know there are more people on the blog that would be great training partners virtual or real but we need to have some way of subgrouping so that we can get in touch. In all honesty I usually only have about 15 minutes a day (obviously today I've spent more than that) that I can devote to the blog and that is not enough time to meet all the great people that I “saw” in passing during my leaflet campaign. I hope I didn’t annoy you all with the random post. Just curious to see what the response will be. Thank you for bearing with me…

Single: I'm not sure why I've been consumed by this mileage issue. I think part of it is that the purpose of the blog to me is as a tool to learn what training it takes to get better. For that we need to be able to see what training people are doing at a glance we don't all have the luxury of working from home and spending multiple hours each day on the blog. That is why I think the best way to do this is to have a way of knowing who's running what who's crossing training what and what combinations work best for what people to accomplish what goals. It is not all about who I can or can not beat in a head to head race as Sasha put in his comment on the discussion forum. It is about what are the people that beat me doing and how do I get there?... In any case I'm not even sure what I should or should not put in mileage anymore or if I should bother blogging anymore... But for now I did an easy random run SE of my house. Mi 8-T1 Avg. 7:34

Asics DS-Trainer #1: 210 / / Asics DS-Trainer #2: 212 / / Saucony Rides #1: 208 / / Saucony Rides #2: 209

 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Jon on Thu, May 22, 2008 at 17:51:08

Already voted.

From James W on Thu, May 22, 2008 at 18:58:56

Just voted . . . thanks for the nudge, Adam.

From Jon on Thu, May 22, 2008 at 22:56:43

You should DEFINITELY keep blogging...

From Adam RW on Thu, May 22, 2008 at 22:59:54

Thanks Jon. The fact of the matter is I really only check about 5 blogs at the moment I would like to check more I just find it hard to make the time most days. You are one of the motivating forces in my training as well a some obvious others... I don't know what my problem is today.

From dave holt on Thu, May 22, 2008 at 23:05:05

I don't think you should worry about apologizing. You have just as much right as anyone else to say what you think. So do it! Right now I am getting beat by Cheston on his bike... I don't know if I like it!

From cgbooth23 on Fri, May 23, 2008 at 07:15:36

i usually just write what i cross trained but i think it is a great idea to somehow measure that for the exact reason you stated! it could only help and motivate and isn't that the primary reason for the blog!

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