I'm retired from racing. Really.

March 29, 2024

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Location:

Greenville,SC,

Member Since:

Feb 24, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I also maintain a blogspot running blog. Check it out. 

5k- 16:01, 1/2 marathon- 1:11:37, marathon- 2:34:16, 50k- 3:58, 100 mile- 15:19

Former World Record holder in 100 x 5k relay 

Ultra history:

8-100 mile, 1-100k, 9-50 mile, 2-40 mile, 14-50k-ish

12 wins, 5 CR's, plus four 2nd, five 3rd, 4th, 4th, 5th, 5th, 9th, 16th, 20th, 28th, 38th, and 62nd place, with 1 DNF 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Goals 

Enjoy running, stay fit (and maybe lose a few pounds). Play ultimate frisbee.

4 year coach of Langston Middle School- love it

Long-Term Running Goals:

Unretire at some point

Run a sub-6 hr 50 miler

Win a 100 mile ultramarathon

Personal:

I have five cute kids. And I have some rockin short green racing shorts- I wear them mainly because it embarrasses my wife so much. I like ultimate frisbee, trail running, reading, and cheering for the Denver Broncos!   And I have the absolute best wife in the world.  And I used to run for the now-disbanded national Team Pearl Izumi- Ultra!

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Miles:This week: 15.50 Month: 55.50 Year: 154.50
Fastwitch Lifetime Miles: 82.50
Trail N1 Lifetime Miles: 86.50
Road N1 Lifetime Miles: 31.00
Trail M2 Lime/black Lifetime Miles: 297.00
Road M3 Grey And Yellow Lifetime Miles: 324.00
Road N2 Purple 2 Lifetime Miles: 222.50
Road N2 4 Grey Lifetime Miles: 51.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.002.500.000.000.0014.50

I just noticed I am at exactly 1000 miles for the year right now.  Cool. 

PM- BTW (big trail workout)- started .8 miles into the Logan River trail, ran to Guinavah Malibu, then did a hard hill climb up to the Wind Caves- 1200 ft climb in 1.75 miles.  Then ran down 1.4 miles, back up 1 hard mile with 700 ft climb, then all the way down and back to the car.  14.5 miles in 2:07:47 (yup, a whopping 8:48 pace).  About 3000 ft climb on the whole run, and my legs were pretty tired by the end.  We'll count the 2.5 miles as MP, even though it was about 11:00 pace.

Reason #492 that I love trail running:  About 1/4 mile up the wind caves trail, a spring had burst from the ground and washed out the trail on the side of a steep hill/ravine.  The stream is big enough that you can't jump across and has no dry rocks, and it caused the hillside above it to sluff off such that it is very steep (maybe 60-70 deg angle) and curved (like the bobsled turn from he%@), bare, loose dirt with no plants other than one overhanging tree branch.  It took me about a minute on my way up to carefully climb up, across, and back down and was rather difficult with lots of slipping.  On my way back down, I came tearing down the mountain with a head of steam to find a big group of college students trying to cross.  The guys were all linking arms while the girls were shrieking and slowly climbing over the guys, trying not to fall or get wet.  Well, without losing my momentum, I simply ran straight up the side of the loose dirt, angled around, turned straight down the mountain (sliding and almost falling, but just barely, barely hanging on), ducked under one very low branch, and flew on down the trail.  The whole thing took me maybe 3-4 seconds and (in hindsight) was rather dangerous- if I had slipped, I would have fallen about 8 feet down and landed right on them.  As I kept going without looking back, I heard some unprintable mutterings from the group that essentially amounted to, "That guys is *bleeping* nuts.  Completely insane.  Suicidal."  It was great!  I'm sure they now think all trail runners are crazy.  Which we may be...

NB 769 Miles: 14.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Mike Warren on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:27:25 from 74.211.7.227

SWEET!

From cody on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:15:45 from 69.9.58.17

Not bad, but Holt is still double your miles! Crazy!

From Jon on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:23:48 from 138.64.2.76

I know- very crazy!

From RivertonPaul on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:29:27 from 67.42.27.114

Cool.

From jtshad on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:49:15 from 204.134.132.225

The crazy redhead is out on and on the loose! Send that little tid bit to the mountain running teams to demonstrate your trail running skills!

From superfly on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:33:27 from 209.33.210.52

Nice Jon. Just be careful you don't turn into a Legend. You know the one that use to be around.

I wish you were doing Squaw with us. Maybe if I like it I'll come run Mid mountain with you or one of the others.

From Dustin on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:51:01 from 204.113.48.69

Great story and great job on the miles so far this year.

From Jon on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:07:40 from 138.64.2.76

Clyde- I've thought a few times how fun it would be to do Squaw with you guys. If I lived in Provo, maybe I'd come pace some of it. I think I'll do it next year. We need to get a FRB-Trail team going.

From Adam RW on Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:50:07 from 155.101.241.125

Sounds like fun to me. But now I want to see the published list of the other 491 reasons. :')

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