A Balance, Redefined

December 21, 2024

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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, Oct 01, 2008

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

Well I finally got my 8hrs of sleep. Thanks to those of you still checking up on me. I've noticed my visitor number has halved, oh well. Not too much fun hearing one complain about injuries. The good news is I'm coming to grips with the injury and will just focus on hard PT etc. The thing that amazes me the most is how quickly my life took a 180... The thing I have to remember is that things are still going well, just in a different part of my life. Look at the title and remember that balance can switch from time-to-time. After getting into work early this morning I left about an hour early and did a run with Kaitlyn to say hi to the geese. The whole way she was asking for seagulls and there was a single gull at the pond, lucky her. Mi 4-T3

Asics DS-Trainer #2: 371 / / Asics DS-Trainer #3: 128 / / Saucony Rides #1: 445 / / Saucony Rides #2: 448 // Saucony Rides #3: 271 // Adidas Adistar (flats): 205 / / Adidas Adistar-2 (flats): 4 / /

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

Comments

From wheakory on Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 22:14:37

How is the knee today. I'm glad everything else is going well. Adam like you I have no expectations in this race. Just go out hard and see what happens. I'm confident, and really have already accomplished a lot this year.

I'm excited because my 12 year old daughter is going to come with me. She finished 3rd in the all city XC race yesterday for 7th graders. She wanted to watch the marathon and see me come in.

From Adam RW on Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 22:32:54

Kory, You are so right about focusing on what else great has happened this year. I've PRed at every distance I've raced. At 30 I smoked all my records set as a 22 year old. The other good news and as you will see on Friday is that we are expecting daughter number 2 in December. So in both family and in recreation I have had a fantastic year that is not even mentioning that work has gone great the last few months with two meeting abstracts excepted, two middle author papers published, and more on the way. I just have to tell myself that one more injury in the series of injuries will pass and make me just that much more passionate to get back to where I was 6-wks ago. But enough of the self pep talk. To answer your question the knee still hurts. I've gone back and forth about not even going down this weekend but decided that I want to at least start and help the team if I can by trying to help pace Michelle. I'm not sure if I have it in me but I'll go for that and if things turn sour I will bag it and just enjoy a weekend in southern UT with my family...

From james on Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 23:02:24

And this, too, shall pass away...

I hope you have fun with you family in St George

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