I'm retired from racing. Really.

Laurel Valley 35 mile

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Greenville,SC,

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Feb 24, 2007

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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

Sat, Aug 13, 2011

Race: Laurel Valley 35 mile (32 Miles) 06:05:50, Place overall: 1

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
33.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	33.00

Short report for now- full report later (maybe tomorrow).

Wanted to win and break 6 hrs- got one of the two. Took the win (2nd place was 72 min back), but missed 6 hrs by 5 min. Tough, tough course.

Full report up on my Green Shorts running page.

XT Wings 2 Miles: 33.00

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From on Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 19:48:45 from 71.85.99.5

Awesome job my friend! Can't wait to read/hear all about it! Any idea on what the course record is?

Yes I signed up just to comment on this!

From crockett on Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 20:26:50 from 71.36.82.5

Wow! Way to go. And you didn't even taper.

From Rob Murphy on Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 20:36:30 from 98.202.141.17

I'm really thrilled for you Jon. I know that's a win you needed. Congratulations.

From Andrea on Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 22:00:43 from 67.177.21.60

Wow - very impressive! Congrats! Maybe you are just the person to put SC on the map for OTQs!

From Bryce on Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 23:49:47 from 76.27.58.194

Nice job Jon! Must have a been a tough tough course! Knowing your times on similar legnth tough courses I can only imagine!

From Burnside on Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:08:32 from 174.252.154.27

BEWARE of the green shorts!

From Predog on Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:22:25 from 76.27.107.82

Sounds like we had similar weekends. Good work! Looking forward to your race report.

From jun on Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 13:13:50 from 70.103.189.14

Slacker. Geez, if you can't run a hard 35 mile course in under 6 hours then you obviously aren't trying very hard. And only 1st place? Seriously, I would have expected better. Maybe like -3 place. Going negative means you actually get back before they have the finish line set up. Pick it up Jon, I expect better.

Ha. Congrats man.

From Jake K on Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 16:37:55 from 67.177.21.60

Anytime you finish over an hour in front of the next guy, I'd call that a dominating performance! Great run.. looking forward to hearing about the whole thing b/c it sound brutal!

From Jon on Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 19:47:04 from 98.71.186.198

Thanks, everyone.

"" (mystery man- I'm assuming KS)- CR is 5:02, insane fast. Is this KS, though?

Andrea- nah, OTQ is far above me, plus that would require training for and running a road marathon. I'll stick to trail races.

Barry- indeed.

Jun- what does a DNF count as? -1?

Jake- yeah, pretty brutal, but in a fun sort of way. Not the hardest race I've done, but definitely challenging.

From Ken on Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 21:17:12 from 71.85.99.5

Guilty as charged. I am not sure why I am anonymous? 5:02-that is insane! I can not imagine running that segment of the FHT at that pace!

From jtshad on Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 21:33:19 from 69.20.183.178

Congrats on a strong race, you are tearing it up!

From JD on Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 21:52:30 from 71.213.37.149

Congratulations on another epic win! I really enjoyed your report, particularly the part about the spider webs.

From Cody on Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 13:24:08 from 67.137.240.196

He's on fire! (NBA Jam reference)

I will forgive your whining about the spiders, you got soft moving to SC. Way to dominate either way!

From Bret on Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 08:36:50 from 64.128.133.66

Well-done Jon, congratulations.

From Aaron Kennard on Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:49:38 from 98.245.117.176

Congrats Jon! And great report. And Cody - awesome reference. Totally took me back to sluffing 7th grade to play mortal kombat and NBA jam at the 7-11.

From Jon on Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 21:21:36 from 98.71.186.198

I've still got my Super Nintendo with NBA Jam!

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