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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
Wed, Aug 31, 2011
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
8.500.000.000.000.000.000.008.50

AM: Commute run in to get some experiments done before the day long symposium. Left side pretty beat up but all runnable injuries. 

Avg. 10:13; 2.5 mi

PM: The symposium went well. The majority of the speakers 7 of 8 are currently in my same pre-job position so it is good to see the competition so to speak. After sneaking home for dinner and the girls bedtime had to come back to lab and then an evening run to the Memory Grove overlook. My left side is still pretty sore but the the run felt fine. I timed it perfectly and started North/West just as the sun was kissing Antelope Island. It was a very pleasant run the whole way out into a colorful sunset.

Avg. 8:19; 6 mi

Saucony Rides #6 Miles: 8.50
Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50Weight: 0.00
Comments
From bgrun on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:23:16 from 68.251.36.96

Glad you are still runnable, hope Sandra is taking care of you.

From Kory on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 15:28:08 from 134.50.89.24

How long do you experiments take in the Lab? Nice run. I will be glad when it cools down a bit for the Idaho and Utah area's.

Great to see you running regularly now.

From Adam RW on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 23:33:00 from 155.101.152.123

Mom, She's doing her best. With school starting and the carnival looming she's also been super busy.

Kory, It varies a lot. The experiments I had this morning have a 45 min set-up/clean-up window and then 20 min per sample and I had 7 samples. I'm glad to be getting some decent mileage again. I'm much happier to see you tearing it up again relatively so soon after the accident.

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