| 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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 34.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 34.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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Random running around my sister-in-laws. Mostly road but some unshoveled sidewalk and trials. Avg. 7:30 HR 141 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| Good trail run on fresh snow. |
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Well I posted yesterday’s run and my running goal for the year on the discussion board, now comes what happened last night. My family and I were driving to a New Year’s Eve party at about 4:30pm and were in a car accident. I have a very sore neck, back, and arms. I have bruising across my shoulder. My wife has bruising across the entire left side of her face, her lower legs and one of her arms. My daughter had minor bruising on her one leg and on the side of her face. My father-in-law suffered a severe cut (~10-12 in) across the top of his head and lost about half of his blood volume. He also broke a few bones in his neck, spine, and at least eight ribs. Thankfully, we are all still alive. He is still in the ICU but should fully recover from all of his injuries. I can only thank God that no one was killed. There were two other cars involved and both of the people in those cars appeared fine. Please pray for my father-in-law to have a quick and complete recovery. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Assessment run to determine the damage. Good news is Rafael seems to be improving. Though he is still in ICU. I ran on plowed streets in a nearby industrial park. First mile was very slow and then I settled into a 7:35 pace for the remainder. My neck was sore whenever I tried to look to the sides. My lower back was tight on the second half. And it turns out that I did hit my right knee on something. It had a bruise and felt a little tight. However, my breathing was good and it does not feel like my ribs bruised much from the safety belt. |
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| I have to take it one day at a time. The worries and stress of the aftermath of such a serious injury have plagued my sleep. Everyone seems to be holding up fine but you can tell there is still a lot of healing to be done. I did see Rafael sitting today and he was moved out of the ICU tonight. |
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| Today was such a hard day. I left Chicago to come home. It was hard leaving my family there. I didn't sleep well... |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| I wanted to try and get out of my mind for a little and just feel my body. It is hard because often I go running to think things through but at this point I just want to be able to spend a good hour without thinking about anything. It didn't work but the run still felt good. It was nice to know that I could still put in a good run. The pace was slow as I'm still sore and there was a good 2-3 inches of fresh snow on the ground. This was actually nice as a good 2 mile stretch of the run still had "running poweder". By the way back some others had gotten to the snow but not many. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 34.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 34.00 |
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