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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
16.501.000.000.000.000.000.0017.50

AM: Starting the day off right. First time in a while that I was up at "normal" time. Dinner and relaxation last night helped some. After setting some things up in lab I was off towards City Creek. Then up and back via the trails to Dry Creek. Some how I've become a super clutz. I've fallen more times this year than all other years running combined. Today was pretty funny. I was on a downhill section and my toe caught a rock. I went over, rolled, and continued running. I didn't even stop. I was embarrassed more than hurt but only wish someone had seen it because it had to have looked funny. After getting back to lab all I had was a small cut on my palm and a bruise on my shoulder. Trail running is hazardous to your health... At least when your head is in the clouds and not on the rocks in front of you. Avg. 9:12

PM: Much better today overall. I had been in a funk for about two weeks (on and off this year actually) but the last two weeks even more so. Today was much better. Still running behind but I felt like I made some progress today. I've been trying to read Born to Run when I get a few spare momments and there was this section about Vigil and how children love to run and we have to get back to that to fix all of societies woes (big paraphrase there). But that was the message I took from it and really that can be applied to so many things. I'll keep working at it. However it was so true after dinner my daugter just wanted to run circles in our back yard holding my hand. It was  a lot of fun. After they went down I came back into lab to set something up for tomorrow and go for a second run. I did the MG overlook with a FireHouse mile 4:57.79. I am a lot stiffer than I thought I would be from my tumble this morning but obviously not too bad. Let's see what the morning brings. Avg. 8:00 (I love the even numbered pace race)...

Saucony Rides #7M Miles: 11.00Asics DS-Trainer #5 Miles: 6.50
Night Sleep Time: 5.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.50Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Kory on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 13:59:08 from 134.50.89.55

Ouch! Trails are hard on the body. At least you didn't break anything. I hope there's no post pain.

I ran into a steel dumpster last year when I was looking at my garmin and not paying attention, and a truck drove by and saw it. This is embarrassing, what you did was easy to do especially on a trail

From JD on Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:14:39 from 64.65.159.206

Nice running day. Those sub five miles have got to feel great.

From Adam RW on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 14:45:40 from 155.101.152.103

Kory, Check out my June 8th entry...

JD, They sure help. I think I mentioned this before but it is funny that I never ran a sub-5 in high school and not an official one until my final year in undergrad. Now (with the help of the hills of UT) I get to run them routinely. Definitely a pick me up!

From Kory on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 16:59:09 from 134.50.89.55

Adam RW - That most have hurt... Oh well we all have our little adventures life that we can look back on and just wonder WHY!

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