I'm retired from racing. Really.

October 2015

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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: 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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
169.000.000.000.009.00178.00
Road N2 2 Grey Miles: 27.00Road M2 Miles: 57.00Fuel 2 (road) Miles: 33.00Stinson Miles: 44.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.000.000.000.000.009.00

Lunch- 9 miles, most of them a fair amount quicker than usual. The weather has been cool and rainly lately, 3-4 inches in the past week and always overcast. A HUGE storm system is predicted to drop 14+ inches of additional rain by Sunday. Might be some flooding.

Road N2 2 Grey Miles: 9.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

AM- 10. Rain on and off all day, starts in earnest late tonight. Flooding. 

Road N2 2 Grey Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

Today is St George marathon and StumpJump 50k, both races I've done and enjoyed. I may be retired from racing but I still am excited for my racing friends and follow along. Given the rain outside today, it seems fitting I did both races in bad weather years, and that SJ is expecting lots of rain today. Run strong, friends, and enjoy.

I actually appear in the video 3 times. Can anyone figure out where? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhEWT4qp-4M

Speaking of bad weather, it's currently 53 deg, pouring buckets, and 20 mph winds. I think I'll go for a nice run in a minute.

Ran 8 miles. Felt good, probably around 7 min pace. The good news about running in the rain is, once you are wet, you can't get any wetter.

Road N2 2 Grey Miles: 8.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

AM- Let's start the week off right with a nice 10 mile run. Felt pretty tired, a bit hard to hold the pace. 75 min.

Road M2 Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

AM- only had time for 8

Road M2 Miles: 8.00
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AM- 10. Ho hum.

Road M2 Miles: 10.00
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Lunch- 10 with Dave and Russell. It was 70 deg and sunny, quite the perfect day for running. Just splendid.

Road M2 Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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Lunch- 3 running, then about 40 min ultimate. It was a windy day and we only had 7 people. The wind can sure do some strange things to a frisbee.

Road M2 Miles: 3.00
Weight: 0.00
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Am 10

Road M2 Miles: 10.00
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AM- 10 miles on the GE track, the first 3 with Dan. Started fast due to joining Dan and then felt like I slowed down, but didn't. I guess that's a good sign. I think my pace was 7:15-7:20 ish.

Fuel 2 (road) Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
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It's my birthday, but I definitely can't run 37 miles. Or even 37k. In fact, I've got a bit of a shin pain right now (shin splints?)- anyways, I did 37 minutes of elipitical. It was glorious.

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AM- 10 miles. Felt ok, considering I hadn't run since last Tuesday, I think. I had a bit of a leg pain (shin splints, I'd guess) that responded very favorably to rest. And I really hurt my neck/upper back on Thursday apple picking with my kids, carrying them around and having them stand on my shoulders trying to pick high apples. I was in pretty good pain for 2 days and still have some lingering soreness, but it's much better today than Friday. Anyways, expect to be back to normal running this week. Who knows, maybe I'll even hit the 50 mile mark.

Stinson Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.500.000.000.000.009.50

Lunch- 9.5. It was my first lunch run with the guys in a while.

Stinson Miles: 9.50
Weight: 0.00
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Lunch- 10. Such beautiful weather this time of year for running.

Stinson Miles: 10.00
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Lunch ultimate frisbee

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AM- made it 6 miles running before the returning shin pain convinced me to quit before it gets worse. Added some xt. I really think it's due to these shoes being dead- this was my last run with them.

Road M2 Miles: 6.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.500.000.000.000.009.50

AM- 9.5. Rainy and cold out, so I enjoyed the TM watching Mike and Mike instead. I used to hate the TM, now it's not bad, at least sometimes. 4:30 am runs in Logan got me used to it.

Stinson Miles: 9.50
Weight: 0.00
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Lunch- 10 with the guys on a mizzly day.

Fuel 2 (road) Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
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Lunch- 10 with Jim

Fuel 2 (road) Miles: 10.00
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Lunch- 3 running then almost an hour of ultimate frisbee.

Fuel 2 (road) Miles: 3.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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I've eaten a bowl of oatmeal, an apple, some pizza, and a whole lot of treats today. Must be Halloween. I did make it out for a 5 mile run between soccer games. That means this is my first 50+ mile week since Western in June.

Stinson Miles: 5.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
169.000.000.000.009.00178.00
Road N2 2 Grey Miles: 27.00Road M2 Miles: 57.00Fuel 2 (road) Miles: 33.00Stinson Miles: 44.00
Weight: 0.00
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