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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
Tue, May 12, 2009
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.000.000.000.0010.00

Decided I needed a break. I slept in until 7am to get a full night's sleep and then worked from home. By about 3pm I needed a break and did a stroller run with Kaitlyn. We ran to and did four loops of SugarHouse Park then the long way home. Now back for a few more hours of work. Avg. 7:49 HR 157

Saucony Rides #5G Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Jon on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 21:39:43 from 75.169.150.163

Gotta love the days you can sleep in.

From Adam RW on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 22:28:01 from 98.202.223.65

I just wish there were more of them. I'm sure you do too.

From Jon on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 22:29:54 from 75.169.150.163

I get to sleep in till 5:50 on Thurs and maybe Fri. Does that count?

From Adam RW on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 22:32:10 from 98.202.223.65

Only if you go to sleep before 10pm. I'm in the 5.5-6.5 sleep range but would like to be in the 6.5-7.5 range. If I'm not mistaken you are normally in the 5-5.5 sleep range...

From redrooster on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 22:55:37 from 71.219.149.110

isn't the life of a postdoc fun? did you get one of your grants funded? I am planning on doing DN10K this year, are you doing it again? how's the research going?

From jtshad on Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:53:41 from 204.134.132.225

Nice run with Kaitlyn. I am a 5-6 hours a night type a guy myself.

From Jon on Wed, May 13, 2009 at 22:43:57 from 75.169.157.230

We should call ourselves the "SD FRB-ers"- Sleep deprived.

Sleep is for wimps!

From Adam RW on Wed, May 13, 2009 at 22:55:55 from 155.101.241.82

I'm being wimpy this week. The problem with getting sleep a few days is that you realize how tired you are the rest of the time. Back to "normal" routine tomorrow. The good thing about are sleepless life style is that we are always ready to run a Ragnar Relay...

From Adam RW on Wed, May 13, 2009 at 22:57:16 from 155.101.241.82

Redrooster, That is currently the plan. We'll see what happens. The post-doc this fine it is the not being able to say no to a project. If I could just focus life wouldn't be so hard. But for example I am currently working on 7+ projects and three of them have deadlines at the end of the month.

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