| 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 | | 35.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 35.50 |
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| Asics DS-Trainer #4 Miles: 20.00 | Asics DS-Trainer #5 Miles: 4.50 | RM 090416 Miles: 0.31 | Brooks Launch #1 Miles: 9.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 35.50 | Nap Time: 5.50 | Total Sleep Time: 41.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
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| Off for sleep and family fun... November is going to be a hard working month. Wish me luck... |
| 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 | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Trying to start the week off right. After the step back week I now get to shoot for 40. Let's see how that goes. Breathing still a little labored. Not sure if it is just a lingering cold or fall allergies. Drove into work and did the run from there. MMM: 5:29 HR 174 FireHouse Mile After that I ran down into Memory Grove. It had been a while since I was down there. It was pretty early and still very dark so I didn't get to see much. There were a ton of people out though which is always nice. Avg. 8:59 HR 143
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| Asics DS-Trainer #4 Miles: 8.00 |
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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 | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
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In early to work but also home early! Took the girls on a run to the polling place so they could watch their daddy vote. Then stopped off at a park. Very random easy running.
Avg. 8:07 HR 152
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| Asics DS-Trainer #5 Miles: 4.50 |
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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 | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
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Crazy busy day. In work at 5:30am, I spoke at lunch and not home until 5:30pm. Just wiped. Made it out for a pretty good home loop but was mentally drained. Should have done my entry last night as my Garmin was having issues again... About a month now of not working once a week :( Avg. 7:38 HR 154
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| RM 090416 Miles: 0.21 | Brooks Launch #1 Miles: 6.50 |
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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 | | 2.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.50 |
| Instead of getting more sleep to compensate for yesterday I ended up with less. Very wiped this morning so I scrapped my planned track work and just ran straight into work. |
| RM 090416 Miles: 0.10 | Brooks Launch #1 Miles: 2.50 |
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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 | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| This Garmin thing is so strange. Started up just fine this morning. That being said I am ordering another one today... FMM on the FHM In very early to work and after setting things up out the door. My legs were actually feeling a little strong today so I opted to try a hard mile since the track work for yesterday was scrapped. ~2mi warm-up to the FireHouse and then let it loose. The whole warm-up I was thinking I need to run a 5:15 or better... 5:16.43 HR 184 ~3mi cool-down back to campus Not the 5:15 I wanted but close enough. Have a great weekend!
Avg. 8:15 HR 154
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| Asics DS-Trainer #4 Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 5.50 | 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 |
| I knew I was going to fall short of my 40mi week goal. But was hoping to end on a double digit day. Even talked my wife into going to the Jordon River Parkway so I would have an easier time pushing the girls. Then at about mile 3.5 disaster hit as I went off the paved portion for no more than 10 sec. However, coming back onto the path I saw the damage had been done. There were no less than three goat head thorns sticking out of the tire. We pushed on but by mile 4 the tire was completely flat. So we turned around and I had the joy of pushing >80lbs of girls and stroller back to the car. Good news is that the weather was perfect and even with the flat tire, the flat course was not impossible to push on. We probably could have squeezed in the extra two miles but I didn't want to push my luck... Avg. 9:26 HR 140
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| 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 | | 35.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 35.50 |
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| Asics DS-Trainer #4 Miles: 20.00 | Asics DS-Trainer #5 Miles: 4.50 | RM 090416 Miles: 0.31 | Brooks Launch #1 Miles: 9.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 35.50 | Nap Time: 5.50 | Total Sleep Time: 41.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
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