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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
Sun, Jan 11, 2009
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
3.000.000.000.000.000.000.003.00

Continued in "recovery" mode. Still no word about the grant I'm hoping that means it is better and doesn't need a lot of work that or it was such a headache that my boss put it aside... In either case it is supposed to be submitted to the university tomorrow for final submission on Thurs. In the meantime I'm to be working on the second grant for Friday and a presentation for my lab meeting tomorrow. Oh boy!

Spent the morning with Kaitlyn, just did a treadmill run and now back to it...

 


Saucony Rides #3 Miles: 3.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Phoenix on Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 22:36:42

Keep checking them off. . .

I'm finally done with experiments and it feels nice to be able to focus strictly on the composition of the grant. I was supposed to give lab meeting on Tuesday, but got out of it.

From Adam RW on Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 22:43:29

Lucky bum... I'm working on the talk right now. Fortunately I wrote those abstracts earlier in the week so I'm just doing a quick rundown on the data from those. I had made the figures for one prior to starting the grant and the other was based off the grant so I have a good number of slides to fill the time. I'm concerned about the grant I sent it to Dale yesterday and still haven't heard back. Either it was so good he didn't have comments or it was so bad he'll say just go ahead and submit. I was optimistic about it when I sent it but whenever I look back I think of flaws. The main thing is I just need more practice writing.

From wheakory on Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 15:48:44

Adam - don't worry about things that are out of your control. If you felt like you put your best effort into the grant than that's all you can hope for, and the rest is in the Lord's hands.

This advice I can take myself sometimes we worry so much that it makes us think negative. The best thing you can do now is start on the second grant and focus your attention on it and keep your mind out of areas you can't control.

It's good that your able to run on your knee. Have a great great day and think positive.

From Adam RW on Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 22:24:19

Thanks Kory. I hope that your advice sinks in one of these days...

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