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Location:

Greenville,SC,

Member Since:

Feb 24, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I also maintain a blogspot running blog. Check it out. 

5k- 16:01, 1/2 marathon- 1:11:37, marathon- 2:34:16, 50k- 3:58, 100 mile- 15:19

Former World Record holder in 100 x 5k relay 

Ultra history:

8-100 mile, 1-100k, 9-50 mile, 2-40 mile, 14-50k-ish

12 wins, 5 CR's, plus four 2nd, five 3rd, 4th, 4th, 5th, 5th, 9th, 16th, 20th, 28th, 38th, and 62nd place, with 1 DNF 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Goals 

Enjoy running, stay fit (and maybe lose a few pounds). Play ultimate frisbee.

4 year coach of Langston Middle School- love it

Long-Term Running Goals:

Unretire at some point

Run a sub-6 hr 50 miler

Win a 100 mile ultramarathon

Personal:

I have five cute kids. And I have some rockin short green racing shorts- I wear them mainly because it embarrasses my wife so much. I like ultimate frisbee, trail running, reading, and cheering for the Denver Broncos!   And I have the absolute best wife in the world.  And I used to run for the now-disbanded national Team Pearl Izumi- Ultra!

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Miles:This week: 11.00 Month: 51.00 Year: 150.00
Fastwitch Lifetime Miles: 82.50
Trail N1 Lifetime Miles: 86.50
Road N1 Lifetime Miles: 31.00
Trail M2 Lime/black Lifetime Miles: 297.00
Road M3 Grey And Yellow Lifetime Miles: 324.00
Road N2 Purple 2 Lifetime Miles: 222.50
Road N2 4 Grey Lifetime Miles: 51.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
21.500.000.000.000.0021.50

AM- This morning's run was probably the second most enjoyable February run of my life, only behind last year's Rocky Raccoon 100.  Barry and I drove out to Issaqueena forest again, parking a few miles south from 2 weeks ago.  The first 8 miles included Timber, Barry's dog, as we cavorted around the singletrack in sub-freezing temperatures.  Then we dropped off Timber and found even more singletrack.  We ventured all over the very twisty, never flat trails before finding the Waterfall area.  The entire Waterfall area is maybe 1000 m by 600 m, but has probably 7 miles of trail crowded in that area, and we ran about 11 miles there.  The trails are beautiful, narrow, soft singletrack that literally twist back and forth, almost on top of themselves, climbing and falling the entire time.  Simply splendid.  And the temperatures rose rapidly, such that I went from UA Coldgear and warm gloves to just a t-shirt in 5 minutes.  It was pure enjoyment, running on great trails with good company.  I just about killed Barry so ended up doing the last few miles by myself.  I felt great all the way to the end, pushing hard and running fast.  It's fun to be getting in shape.  

I finished with 21.5 miles (though it may have been more, since I'm sure the garmin missed a ton of tiny switchbacks) in 3:15 (9:05 avg).  Really not sure about the elevation, since I have never had a run with so many small yet continuous ups and downs.  Garmin says 5050 ft climbing, SportTracks says 2700 ft.  I know it was more than 2700 ft, and garmin often overestimates by 50%... so we'll call it 3400 ft (not that it matters).  Anyways, a great run.

I wanted to show just how twisty the trail is and how it almost runs over itself in the Waterfalls area.  Here is a map...

 

...another map... 

 

...and my GPS trace.  Amazing- the scale on this is 500 ft, so this whole area is about 2000 ft by 3000 ft (~.2 sq mi), but it has 6-7 miles of trail!

 

XT Wings Miles: 21.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From jtshad on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 18:24:52 from 69.20.183.178

Wow, sounds like a great run!

From Cody on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 18:27:15 from 174.52.244.185

cool run

From Rob Murphy on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 19:58:04 from 24.10.248.6

Nice run Jon. Sounds like you are really getting into a groove.

From Burnside on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 20:02:19 from 174.252.181.32

He's not kidding folks - I almost didn't make it. This is a very cool place to run and really look forward to more miles here.

From Jon on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 20:31:35 from 74.177.118.24

Hey, Barry, you made it! Sweet. I imagine you know your blog is private, though, so I can't see it.

From Burnside on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 20:41:51 from 174.252.181.32

I think thats because it's new, i can't edit my profile for 24HR...Nice job on todays posting.

From Jim Kern on Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 00:04:46 from 98.202.241.209

That run really does look fun.

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