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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, Jun 28, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
4.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.00

AM: Hike with a friend from work. Since the day I moved here I've wanted to hike up to the Beacons. About 6wk ago John and I planned to do just that. Even though the last couple weeks have been crazy busy I decided to keep to plan and go on this hike anyway. We met at 6am at Red Butte and headed toward This is the Place. Then up and over the rollers to the trail to between the Beacons to the fire watch tower. Climbed up that and enjoyed the view. Total climb was just under 2100 ft in 2.5 mi. With stopping to enjoy the views and flowers (still out in June!), we made it up in just under an hour and the round trip 5.3 mi took us just over 2hr. We came back the other side. Good and relaxing start to the day, I wish they could all be like this...

PM: Continuing the perfect day theme. Problem is I will have to pay for it the rest of tonight... After working most of the day there was a 5K/Party at SugarHouse. This was in memory of Heather Gross who died in an avalanche this winter, and daughter of members of our church . Her parents are amazing and actually brought us a meal after our daugher was born just 1-2 wk after their's had died. The race was only friends/family and other members of our church. I pushed Kaitlyn to victory but just stayed with the next fastest guy there (~23 min guy). I think he has more talent and really he worked hard in the ~90F temps. The course was not marked and we just did 2 laps of the road (2.75). After Kaitlyn "broke the tape" we continued on for an extra loop...

Asics DS-Trainer #3 Miles: 4.00	Saucony Rides #5G Miles: 5.30

Night Sleep Time: 5.50	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 5.50	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Jon on Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 17:28:56 from 75.169.153.89

Sounds like a very enjoyable day.

From Adam RW on Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 23:34:16 from 155.101.152.103

Thanks Jon. It only got better with time. However, now I have to finish my talk for tomorrow so I'll be a pumpkin tonight.

From sam Dean-Howard on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 07:29:08 from 78.32.130.9

great day, and look at you doing 5k pushing Kaitlyn round! the Hike sounds wonderful :-)

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