| Location: Mesa,AZ,USA Member Since: May 12, 2008 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: I started running again in 2007 after 14 years of not running.
Mile - 4:59 (high school 1992), 5:57 (9/21/2010 ARR Open Mile)
2 mile - 11:10 (high school 1992)
5k - 21:54 (11/18/2010 Tempe Road Runners 5k)
10k - 48:29 (5/9/2009 Race for Hospice)
Unofficial 10k - 47:11 (1/27/2011 Red Mountain Park)
1/2 marathon - 1:49:00 (4/4/2009 Havasu Half)
Marathon - 4:33:09 (11/21/2009 Mesquite Marathon) Short-Term Running Goals: Run a half marathon in under two hours.
Run a marathon in close to 4 hours. Long-Term Running Goals: Stay healthy long enough to live through the millenium. Personal: I am married and have six kids.
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Bloggers I've met in real life: 1MileToGo, Aaron Kennard, Andrea North, Arizona Desert Monsoon, auntieem, Bec, Ben, Benjamin, Bonnie, Camille, Cari, Collin Anderson, David Holt, Doone, Eight Kid Mom, Erico, Flatlander, Gary, Jake Krong, JamesW, Jose, Josse, Julieesplin, Jun, Kelli, Kerri, KP, Kyle Dion, Lightitup, Little Bad Legs, Lybi, Marthon Dreamer, M, Mary Ann Schauerhamer, Misty, Nan, Peds Endo Doc, Rachelle, RAD, Rhett, Riley Cook, Rossy, runningafterbabies, Sasha, Scott Hughes, Scott (Kelli's husband), Scott Wesemann, Slow Joe, Spencer Simpson, Stephen, Steve Piccolo, Susie, The Rookie, Toby, Tracy, Twinkies, TylerS, Walter Favorite Blogs: |
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Last night I made some delicious creamy smooth root beer floats (Brent's gonna kill me) for me and my wife, and then I made her watch a movie with me. The name of the movie was The Memory Keeper's Daughter. I'm sure it was some Lifetime made-for-TV movie. The setting for the movie began in the early 60's in Lexington, Kentucky. A man and a wife were going to have a baby. What they didn't know is that they were having twins; one boy and one girl. The father was a bone doctor and had delivered 5 babies in medical school. It was just him and one of the nurses from the clinic he worked at delivering the babies. Because they gassed up his wife real good (remember, this was the 60's), she was kind of out of it. When the girl was born (after the boy), right away you knew something was wrong. At first we thought she was still born. That was the first time my wife started crying. But she was alive. She had Down syndrome. Because people weren't educated a lot about Down syndrome back then, and because he saw his mother's life in shambles because of his terminally ill sister, he told the nurse to take her to a "care" home, and he told his wife that she died after birth. When my wife realized what was going on she not only started crying harder, she started hitting me. (She's quite abusive. But any abuse besides emotional, I'm okay with.) So, the nurse took her to the home, but couldn't leave her there. She decided to raise her on her own and skip town. Then whenever we would see her (Phoebe, the little girl with Down syndrome) growing up, my wife would cry. Whenever the father would recieve polaroids of her, my wife would cry more. As the father regretted his decision, she cried. When she was grown up and wanted to get married, she'd cry. When my two year old with Down's walked in, she cri-ied! The point of the story is that my wife thinks I'm a jerk now, but she'll get over it.
The ride to work this morning was beautiful. It's not as hot today as it has been. I was just cruising. I wasn't even watching for prairie dogs. The I finally saw a dead one, and I began to wonder if someone had poisoned them all. So then I started watching for them and saw 5 of them.
I know I scared the crud out of some lady today. I was still cruising along when I came up to the intersection at Power and Southern. As I was going through the intersection I was riding at the same speed that this lady was driving. She looked over and saw me smiling at her through her passenger window. Her eyes got all big like, "What the...?" It was awesome.
AM Ride
Distance - 17.7 miles
Cycle time - 1:01:51
Avg speed - 17.2 mph
Max speed - 23.1 mph ************************************************************ PM Ride Distance - 17.5 miles
Cycle time - 1:01:58
Avg speed - 17.x mph
Max speed - 2x.x mph | |
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