| 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 | | 59.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 60.00 |
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| RM 090416 Miles: 1.67 | Saucony Rides #6B Miles: 24.00 | Saucony Rides #7M Miles: 12.00 | Asics DS-Trainer #4 Miles: 6.00 | WM 090416 Miles: 0.26 | Asics DS-Trainer #5 Miles: 18.00 | Asics DS-Trainer #3 Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 43.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 43.00 | Weight: 146.00 | |
| | 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 |
| Very happy with the way my body feels today. My knee was pretty tight but my muscles were not that sore at all. Considering the downhill nature of the race yesterday I am very pleasantly surprised. I guess I can finally switch from injury recovery. Now I had wanted to have one top 10 overall finish back under my belt before I went to local elite but I hope you can give me some leeway considering the field on Saturday... Tonight was a naked recovery run of the home loop to shake out the legs and assess if there was any damage. |
| RM 090416 Miles: 0.59 | Saucony Rides #6B Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | 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 | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
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AM: Legs still pretty good. Up early but slept well. Did the MG overlook run from work before sunrise. Still keeping it naked. PM: Here they go. I knew I'd feel a little stiff today. Still good. Just a home loop to get them warmed up for a good stretch. Still keeping it naked. This is just a recovery week and then taper time! |
| RM 090416 Miles: 1.07 | Saucony Rides #7M Miles: 6.00 | Asics DS-Trainer #4 Miles: 6.00 |
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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 | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Single: Just a nice easy morning. Up early again. The MG overlook and back from work. |
| Saucony Rides #7M Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 146.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| AM: Commute run with Chad sighting. PM: From lab in the late PM, FireHouse mile shake out (5:02.18; HR 173). I'm starting to think the the HR for the half was off... Today's run. I started pre-run ~57bpm, then a block into the run I saw 165bpm! I adjusted the strap and it immediately went down to 132bpm. Even the hard mile only hit 173 and my average for the run was 8:33 pace with 139 HR. Now to get home. Hopefully tomorrow is more productive than the rest of this week has been...
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| RM 090416 Miles: 0.01 | WM 090416 Miles: 0.26 | Asics DS-Trainer #5 Miles: 12.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.50 | 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 | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Single: Daddy duty treadmill run. |
| Asics DS-Trainer #5 Miles: 6.00 |
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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 | | 18.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
| Good start to the day. Up at 4am and into lab to set-up something before heading over to meet Clyde, Logan, Walter and Chad at the capital. Then we did an out and back on the road and then up and down City Creek. It was fun to run in a group again. It was also great to see those guys, some of which I hadn't seen in well over a year. All and all a good pace and good conversation throughout. Avg. 7:36 |
| Saucony Rides #6B Miles: 18.00 |
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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 | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| It is nice not being on a structured program. When I found out Clyde and Logan were coming up yesterday I switched things around and did the rest of the weeks mileage yesterday. This morning I got up early (again) and went over to Big Cottonwood to hike up to Lake Blanche with a friend from work. We had perfect timing. We were the first ones of the morning to get to the lake and then we had about 20 minutes to look around before a small cloud burst. However, the cloud burst was right around sunrise and it gave us a rainbow. Then on the way down (despite a number of other hikers) we saw a Moose and her calf. In fact they saw us. They were less than 50ft off the trail and looked up as we were passing. Really cool. Round trip was 6.75 mi with ~3400ft to the lake (by Garmin). The rest of the day was family time and errands. Now on to taper madness... |
| Asics DS-Trainer #3 Miles: 7.00 |
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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 | | 59.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 60.00 |
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| RM 090416 Miles: 1.67 | Saucony Rides #6B Miles: 24.00 | Saucony Rides #7M Miles: 12.00 | Asics DS-Trainer #4 Miles: 6.00 | WM 090416 Miles: 0.26 | Asics DS-Trainer #5 Miles: 18.00 | Asics DS-Trainer #3 Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 43.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 43.00 | Weight: 146.00 | |
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