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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, Aug 10, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
13.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	13.00

Single: Well I'm surprisingly able to walk today. I was a little concerned with how my knee was feeling going into it and the downhill nature of the beast yesterday. This week will be easy but higher mileage and then I think I'll switch my next two weeks and have the same with a few workouts. Next up should be SL Half on the 30th. After a nice full 8hrs sleep it was finally nice enough this morning to walk to church. Then a quick lunch and during naptime headed over to City Creek for some uphill running, ran from 4700ft to 6400ft. This was my furthest up yet. After the road ends I went onto the trail, this quickly becomes single track, crosses back and fourth three times over the creek and then basically disappears. I bushwacked my way another half mile to 6.5 from the gate and then turned around and back down. Even down was slow today but it was all about recovery anyway. Mi 13-R3 Avg. 9:14

Asics DS-Trainer #2: 371 / / Asics DS-Trainer #3: 42 / / Saucony Rides #1: 434 / / Saucony Rides #2: 432 // Saucony Rides #3: 64 // Adidas Adistar (flats): 205

Night Sleep Time: 8.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 8.00	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From steve ashbaker on Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 21:52:00

Hi Adam, Yeah it is a really thrilling thing for me to see. I saw your results at the Provo half. Pretty cool I must say. It's always a thrill to move up and get closer to your opponents. Good job!

From Adam RW on Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 22:02:04

Thanks Steve.If there is some middle ground we could meet early on Saturday morning I would be up for some SLOW overdistance with you... Let me know. I'm not sure what you are doing with your group but this week I just want distance, distance, and more disctance any pace will do (as long as it is easy).

From Phoenix on Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 22:46:13

Adam, I'm up for 2 hours if you are willing to slow down to ~8:30/mile.

From Adam RW on Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 22:55:06

Eric, Today I was only doing 9's so I think I could manage to speed up to 8:30s... How early to do you get into lab? I'll probably be doing about 8 miles each morning this week. Let me know if you are interested in one of those.

From Chad on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:09:39

Adam, rest assured the trail doesn't really disappear at that point. You were approaching Smuggler's Gap--if you continued southeast, you would be heading up Black Mountain and running the Wahsatch Steeplechase trail, although in the opposite direction of the race.

From Adam RW on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:14:57

Chad, I saw a sign for Smuggler's Gap it was toward a rather steep hill if I was looking at the right place. That trial is pretty narrow for a race but I guess at that point there aren't large groups of people. I still want to run that course one of these days...

From Jon on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:22:29

Next year!

From Adam RW on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:43:07

Jon, I thought I was doing it this year until WBR popped onto my calendar.

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