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Location:

Vestavia,AL,USA

Member Since:

May 31, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Marathon Top 10 Finishes: 7 Bridges ('15), Utah Valley ('13), Salt Lake City ('08), Top of Utah ('07), and St. Louis ('04). Ran around the equator (24901.55) in 4,388 days.

Personal Records
Marathon 2:39 (SLC '08)
1/2 Marathon 1:12.30 (Provo River, aided '08)
10K 34:16 (Track, sea level '00)
10K 33:15 (Des 10K, aided '08)
8K 25:32 (Crack of Dawn, aided '13)
5K 16:44 (Track, sea level '00)
5K 16:07 (Running of the Leopards, aided '12)
 

Short-Term Running Goals:

NYC Marathon November 3, 2019 done 

London Marathon October 3, 2021 done

Tokyo Marathon March 3, 2024!!!

And my largest challenge to date, raise $20,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in honor of my cancer survivorship and in memory of those lost to blood cancer...
DONE! $26,403.70

https://pages.lls.org/tnt/al/london2021/awende

Long-Term Running Goals:

Enjoy being a Masters Runner.

Get under 3 hours one more time...

Personal:

Grew up outside Chicago and joined the blog while I lived in Salt Lake City. Now living outside Birmingham. I am married with two daughters. Wife thinks I'm crazy for doing marathons. And yes I am crazy I'm a scientist for a living...
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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 331.25
RM 090416 Lifetime Miles: 136.06
Saucony Type A Lifetime Miles: 200.18
Nike Vaporfly Pink Lifetime Miles: 122.22
Saucony Ride #37 - Black Lifetime Miles: 56.50
Saucony Ride #38 - Neon Lifetime Miles: 53.50
Saucony Ride #39 - Grey Lifetime Miles: 59.50
Brooks Launch #38 - Grey Lifetime Miles: 65.25
Brooks Launch #39 - White Lifetime Miles: 57.50
Brooks Launch #40 - Blue Lifetime Miles: 54.00
Thu, Oct 20, 2011
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
14.500.000.000.000.000.000.0014.50

AM: And life goes on... Commute run in. A bit tired.

Mi 2.5 Naked

PM: A nice long run after a nice long week. Oh wait it is only Thursday... My seminar went fine. I wish I would have had the full hour as the last few months I've finally been generating some exciting stuff. Being the perfectionist I am I was initially disappointed that I had not gotten everything across to the audience but I have already received some good e-mail feedback so I think it was more limited by time. Oh wait this is a running not science blog. The run was south loop with John. Good conversation.

Mi 12: Avg. 7:41 HR 152 A: 1256 ft D: 1259 ft

RM 090416 Miles: 0.12Brooks Launch #1 Miles: 14.50
Night Sleep Time: 4.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 4.50Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Jake K on Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:52:39 from 155.100.226.53

I think a lot of us are dorky enough to appreciate the science talk, too! :-)

Nice run, and sounds like a great day overall as the seminar went well.

From allie on Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 15:40:19 from 24.10.191.18

i'm glad things went well with the seminar. nice mileage for the day.

From Adam RW on Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 17:57:01 from 67.182.248.141

Thank you for the words of support.

The other good reason to keep track of the work stuff is for relative stress levels and their affects on training. One thing I find amusing is that this was one of my most demanding work weeks with the two talks but I also managed to run my highest mileage week in awhile. I honestly think the added mileage helped me get through the stress. I also find it amazing looking at things like this and then hearing people complain that they do not have time to exercise at all...

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