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March 29, 2024

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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
11.001.000.000.000.000.000.0012.00

AM: T.O.F, but I got out. Just to the City Creek overlook and back from lab. Day is going well so far. Lot to get done before lab meeting on Monday but so be it… Avg. 9:29 HR 142

Thank you to those who are still showing up to check on my training. I’m sorry about not being good about checking in on others. Right now I have to focus on family and work and until I get the two manuscripts I’m sitting on out the door it will be not much “free” time for checking on all the other blogs I would like to know about.

 

PM: Stress release mile. Trying to sneak in a couple 2-a-days. It is easier scheduling family and experiment time around 2X45min breaks than 1X1.5 hr break. Also, from last year I really think the 2/d approach is healthier and produces better results. Whatever was going on with my weight is now fixed (Sat, as I type this.). I think it was a combination of a bad day, dehydration and a PM weighing vs. my usual Mon/AM. In any case tonight was rough so I went to do my FireHouse mile and blow off some steam. For those of you who don’t know this is a nice gradual downhill mile that I run hard from time to time. I’ve run a 4:51 on it last year. It is a 2-mi wu to the mile then a nice grade down to the Memory Grove overlook. Tonight I hit it in a 5:01!, HR 184. I was happy with that. The course a ran was the same as in the morning just with this mile hard. Avg. 7:33 HR 157

 

Asics DS-Trainer #3 Miles: 12.00RM 090416 Miles: 4.00WM 090416 Miles: 0.36
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From sam Dean-Howard on Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 16:10:49 from 90.212.41.35

excellent running well done hope work is going well

:-)

From Adam RW on Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:43:33 from 98.202.223.65

Things are moving in the right direction in all aspects. Sometimes just not as fast as I would like. As I try and tell my 3yr old, patience, patience, patience...

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