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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

Sat, Jan 23, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
8.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.00

I think my leg is a little worse instead of better. Even with the low mileage days the previous two days. I'm just frustrated at this point. I did two miles on the TM as a warm-up then I stretched and did the home loop. My right leg just didn't want to loosen up. 2mi @ 7:10 6mi @ 7:27 HR 146

I've decided I'm going to take two days completely off. I'll see how my commute run goes on Tuesday...

Brooks Launch #1 Miles: 8.00

Night Sleep Time: 8.50	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 8.50	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Aaron Kennard on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 22:54:48 from 174.51.250.151

Bummer to hear your leg isn't cooperating.

Not that I know anything, but from the sound of it you are probably best off giving it a couple days off. It always impresses me what the body can do to heal itself when given the proper rest.

It is frustrating to have your plans thwarted like that. Especially not knowing exactly the cause.

From bgrun on Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:29:00 from 69.219.144.208

Sorry to "hear" that you weren't up to doing your long run. I'M impressed with your 8, and reminded of your earlier comment of it being close to infinity. Keep on keeping on.

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 17:06:32 from 90.195.99.79

Adam, rest it, you wont lose much over 1-2 days rest and then you can slog on..... swimming is great for loosening the legs its like a massage but exercising too :)

From Jon on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 22:58:33 from 75.169.137.238

Sorry, man.

From Adam RW on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 00:10:32 from 24.10.132.131

First, thank you for your concern.

Jon said it all and that is about all I know at this time. That I'm in a sorry state.

Being a runner who can't run is horrible.

As Aaron points out this is compounded by the fact that I don't even know what happened.

I'd done some consistent high mileage but >90% of it was at SUPER easy effort.

I'm not sure if the illness on the 12th and the kidney incident on the 16th had anything to do with it.

All I know is that I wasn't that bad Mon-Wed. In fact Wed was relatively good. Then Thur quickly went south and it got worse from there. Sunday was spent in pain and even with Sun and Mon off the 2.5 mi into work on Tues hurt every step. It is in the piriformis area again but seems to have a lot more general hip/joint pain (Jon I'm sure you can relate). However, all this week I've been limping a little while walking much less trying to run.

I saw a PT yesterday and she helped added a few more exercises (I've been stretching doing core, etc for ~45 min each day since Sun). She referred me to an orthopedic guy for x-rays and additional assessment (next appointment not until Monday afternoon).

Right now I'm frustrated and mad at my body. Maybe I did something stupid I don't know.

My focus until the pain goes away is the stretching exercising and really hitting things at work for a distraction.

So it goes, this is NOT the first time I've had an injury and I know it won't be the last. Just to cope with it and still hope to toe the line in April sub-2:39 or not...

From Cody on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 00:20:00 from 67.161.250.22

Good luck with the recovery. Bummer deal.

From Nan Kennard on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 00:58:41 from 174.51.250.151

Adam-Wow, I am so sorry to hear about this. I have been having similar problems lately. I have an injury in my hamstring/bum area and couldn't run for 9 days, causing me to pull out of the Houston Half. It was feeling better so I started running again and now today I've been limping all day again with the pain now in the front of my hip. Injuries STINK!!!

From Jon on Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 20:40:49 from 75.169.143.180

Darn hips!

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 16:19:07 from 90.195.99.113

Huh that sounds horrid, I know the injury thing and nothing replaces running for runners not one type of exercise, it just isnt the same I know but Hey Adam, I hope you got some answers today with the xrays etc, and I have my fingers crossed and thoughts for you that its all not too bad eh ! :-) smiles sent over the water to you.

From jtshad on Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 17:21:50 from 204.134.132.225

Sorry to hear about the step back. Anything new? Any progress?

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