| 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 | | 60.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 60.50 |
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| Saucony Rides #5G Miles: 52.50 | RM 090416 Miles: 3.67 | WM 090416 Miles: 0.21 | Asics DS-Trainer #3 Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 41.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 41.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
| | 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 start to the day so far. Up early to get my run in, breakfast with the family, an hour of work on my talk for tomorrow lab meeting now off to church, today is the last day with an 11am service then we switch to only one service for the summer. I ran a new loop from home. Part of the loop was on the Des 10K course, some around Liberty Park then over and around SugarHouse Park before heading home. The baby geese were out and Liberty and the ducklings were out at SugarHouse. Also, I saw another hummingbird in a very beautiful iris garden. They must have had 10 different colors of irises in their front yard. Knee tight but nothing out of the "ordinary". Avg. 7:54 HR 138 |
| Saucony Rides #5G Miles: 12.00 | RM 090416 Miles: 2.28 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Wow what you can accomplish in 24hrs when you only sleep ~4 of those hrs. I finished my second abstract, the talk, and started the final revisions on a manuscript. Then in the morning presented the poster and the talk followed by one round of edits on each of the two abstracts. Home about normal time for dinner and then a walk with the family before the storm started to role in. The wind was crazy but the run was fun. Maybe a little delirious from the lack of sleep. Avg. 7:09 HR 154 |
| Saucony Rides #5G Miles: 8.00 | RM 090416 Miles: 1.12 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| The speech my sister wrote for me for my graduation says it all, "life is a roller coaster". Those ups and downs can sure mess with your head though. Sleep is still in scarce supply but what can you do?
The review is now officially out of my hands as our two new abstracts for the AHA meeting in Nov. My poster for next week is complete and my talk for Sun only needs edits on two slides. So of the 5 things I wanted done by June 5th, four are completely done and the 5th is more or less done. This month I have 3 additional work goals and we shall move on from there. So those are the ups.
Now the down. Back in Jan I submitted two grants. I heard back about the first this evening. They funded 4 of the 28 they received. I was not one of the 4... However, congrats are in order for Eric on the blog as he smashed his group. For his grant they funded 52 of the 232 they received and he was most likely one of the top 5 by his score. (I hope you don't mind me turning the spot light on your great accomplishment...).
I'm still waiting to hear back on the second grant (any day now) but it was the more competitive of the two so...
On to running. After the thunderstorm rolled through I did the home loop in the post-rain cool. It was still super breezy but felt good to just get out and run. One of these days I'll be able to focus on running again, maybe.
Avg. Naked
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| Saucony Rides #5G Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Wow. That tells you what sleep deprivation will do. I thought I had put down an entry last night... Things are continuing to move forward. Just fixing up loose ends for the meeting now. The run was fine. I MG loop via the ramp return from work. Avg. 8:12 HR 159
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| Saucony Rides #5G Miles: 8.00 | WM 090416 Miles: 0.01 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 8.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| Good start to the day. Up normal time by my alarm. Then during the run ran into Chad and had a good conversation with him. Now on to it. Random course N of work. Avg. 8:07 HR 152 |
| Saucony Rides #5G Miles: 8.50 | RM 090416 Miles: 0.01 | WM 090416 Miles: 0.07 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| It is amazing what a little extra sleep can do. Yesterday turned out to be pretty frustrating with everything getting in the way. But it is over and today is only a half day. As I'm going home early to spend some family time before leaving for the meeting. The run was good. I did my weekly trail run up Dry Creek. It was fun as I passed 5 cyclists on my way up. There were also a number of runners out today. Avg. 8:36 HR 154 |
| Saucony Rides #5G Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| I always forget how easy I had it in the Midwest, flat, oxygen in the air. I felt like I was dragging and looked down to at least a minute per mile faster than what I thought. The outskirts of the convention area are a little depressing but the run was fine. Now off to learn. Avg. 7:02 HR 160 |
| Asics DS-Trainer #3 Miles: 8.00 | RM 090416 Miles: 0.26 | WM 090416 Miles: 0.13 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 60.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 60.50 |
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| Saucony Rides #5G Miles: 52.50 | RM 090416 Miles: 3.67 | WM 090416 Miles: 0.21 | Asics DS-Trainer #3 Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 41.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 41.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
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