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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, Apr 05, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
6.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.00

Nothing special. Knee is sore this morning. Kind of a bummer... We'll see what happens this week. Avg. 7:58 HR 139

Saucony Rides #5G Miles: 6.00

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

Comments

From MichelleL on Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 20:55:54 from 71.35.250.102

Sorry it caused you pain again, but it seems to be behaving itself better the rest of the week. Are you resigned to just having a semi-bum knee forever?

From Adam RW on Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 21:57:48 from 98.202.223.65

The truth of the matter is that leg has giving me problems since 1996. If I look over my training over the last 13yrs this last year was more the exception than the role so it may be the case. Even with getting my mileage to 50 this last week I've been able to maintain my stretching that and the glucosamine seem to be a good combo. I just need my knee to behave long enough to give me a real uninjured attempt at 2:30... I just want to toe the line of a marathon knowing I've prepared and don't have baggage. If that will happen I don't know. This week I've also tried complaining a little less about the knee and sleep. I want people to visit my blog and not think it is just a rant page about "oh poor me". Right now all I can do is think positively and stay patient. I keep telling myself any running at all this year is a bonus and next year is when I'll "worry" about what is or is not happening. I just need to get the larger family balanced, with increasing work obligations this year and am mostly using the running as stress relief.

I just read your weeks of injury woes and I’m sorry to see that you are still struggling with your injury. I think the problem with truly competitive people is that we push ourselves to the limits. The problem is that we seem to find those limits. It is nice to know that you couldn’t have pushed your body harder but it would be nice to have a failsafe switch to stop us before we crossover. That or only a week punishment, at this time I would have settled for just one month. Unfortunately, I wasn’t on the blog when I had my piriformis issues. The good news is I got over mine (the knee this is a separate matter) and with how aggressive you have been with pool training/PT/massage and seeing multiple people I’m sure you will get over yours as well. If it really is the inflammation I ended up needing to go on steroids for about 10days. It wasn’t fun, it made me moody but the first day the pain went away. Then just a slow build to everything (GOOD) that happened in ’07 and ’08!!!

I'm sure you didn't think your two-liner would get all this response but obviously I needed it so thank you!

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