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Greenville,SC,

Member Since:

Feb 24, 2007

Gender:

Male

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Other

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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:	3.00	Month:	28.00	Year:	537.50
Fastwitch Lifetime Miles:						82.50
Trail M2 Lime/black Lifetime Miles:						299.00
Road N2 Purple 2 Lifetime Miles:						222.50
Road N2 4 Grey Lifetime Miles:						104.50

Mon, Jun 21, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
15.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	15.00

PM- A wonderful run up Green Canyon. I was intending to do about 10 miles, but my legs felt good and the shade was wonderfully cool and the trail was wonderfully runnable... so I kept going up and up and up. I think I went the farthest I have ever gone up Green- about 3.5 miles past the end of the road, into some very steep and technical trail (i.e. 1000+ ft/mile). I really didn't want to turn around, but my one water bottle was running out, I was hungry, and I wanted to see my family for the first time before they went to bed. 7.5 miles up in 1:12 with about 3000 ft climbing (estimated by Google Earth- no garmin today), then down in 52 min. Felt good, except for some knots in my back. I'll probably do a bunch of miles tomorrow, then do a 3 day taper for the race.

Cody, one of these evenings we'll have to drive your jeep to the end of GC road, take a few water bottles each, and just go exploring for a few hours. I really want to know what is over the ridge I almost reached today. Sometime in the next few months, hopefully.

NB 769 3 Miles: 15.00

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From jtshad on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 08:27:31 from 69.20.183.178

Sounds like a fun run! Good luck this weekend at Logan Peak!

From Paul on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:11:10 from 174.27.230.30

Stacy and I backpacked the whole trail once. You get up into the high country, out of Green Canyon, and you can go up to Mt Elmer and Birdeneau Peak. You can do a little loop up there, but bring a topo map. Absolutely, gorgeous, inspiring area, surprising considered how ugly the lower part of the Green Canyon singletrack is. It's worth your while to keep going. Elmer is awesome. Birdeneau is awesome and a little scary to circumvent. You can also look down into Birch Canyon from the very top, about a 1000' sheer cliff. It's dizzying.

From Jon on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:22:03 from 192.107.247.6

Thanks, Paul. We may try going from Wood Camp up the to Cottonwood Canyon (N of Mt Elmer), then turn S from there and go into Green. Want to come?

From Paul on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:34:48 from 65.103.252.214

If it's a Saturday, I might come. But I think it would be better to park at Green, then run up Birdeneau to the ridge, and then take the ridge all the way to Elmer. Then you could come down Green, and it would be a big loop. No shuttle needed, plus the views from the ridge are awesome, and you can bag Birdeneau Peak, Mt Jardine, and Mt Elmer all in the same run.

From Jon on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 13:20:25 from 192.107.247.6

How about July 10 or 17? I can pencil it in- Cody is out of town both those weeks, but we could invite Joe and anyone else, too.

From Paul on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 13:32:34 from 65.103.252.214

Actually, July 31 is probably my only available Saturday for a trail run.

From Cody on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 23:39:15 from 216.189.211.186

One of these days we can all get together again, I can feel it....

Cool run. I am in either way...

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