I'm retired from racing. Really.

July 2018

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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: 4.00 Month: 33.50 Year: 132.50
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: 49.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
94.000.000.000.000.0094.00
Trail M2 3 Miles: 8.00Road M2 3 Orange Miles: 7.00Road N2 Purple Miles: 60.00Trail N2 2 Orange Miles: 4.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

AM 4 miles with Ken and Heather on GE trail. 1 deer, 1 turkery. I also saw 2 female and 8 or 9 baby turkeys on the drive in right by the trail

Lunch- 13 people for frisbee. Other team had a sub. My team definitely had more fast guys, but their team had 4 good long throwers. Very competitive, always within 1 point. My team pulled off the 5-4 win. I had a near collision at full speed with Benson (who broke my ribs once), so am glad to avoid serious injury. I did dive once, though, and came down hard on my elbow, leaving my ribs a little sore.

The canadian geese had a huge party on the field- it has poop everywhere. Anytime you went to the ground you came up smeared in goose poop. Lovely.

My last game for 3 weeks. I leave tomorrow for 3 weeks in Idaho. My family has been there for 8 days already, while I've been home working and doing the honey-do list till midnight every day.

Trail M2 3 Miles: 4.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

AM 7 miles around home. 8:30-8:40 pace. I continue to sleep poorly- 4 hours last night. I wake up around 4 or 5 every morning and am rarely able to fall asleep again. Weather was quite nice today- not too humid, a touch of cool (75 deg- I guess that's cool these days). Of course, my runs the next 3 weeks will be significantly cooler and less humid.

Road M2 3 Orange Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Am 6 around Ammon ID. Low 40s, coldest run in months. Didn't seem too bad though. 

Road N2 Purple Miles: 6.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.500.000.000.000.008.50

AM- invented a big loop out of Ammon. The in-laws new house is not in a as-runner-friendly location as they used to live. Loop ended up being just under 8.5 miles in just under 70 minutes. Felt pretty good, but I want to be cautious for injuries. 

Road N2 Purple Miles: 8.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

AM I don't remember what I did. I think 4 miles.

Road N2 Purple Miles: 4.00
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8.500.000.000.000.008.50

AM  nice morning run with Jeff Shadley. I think it was our first together in 6 years?!? Enjoyable company. lots of good conversation, and cool weather makes for my fastest run in a long time. Jeff's watch showed us around 7:30 pace for the first 4 or 5 miles before we slowed towards the end. 8.5 miles in 71 minutes. Great to see Jeff again.

Road N2 Purple Miles: 8.50
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4.000.000.000.000.004.00

AM 4 very slow miles around Ammon (9+ min pace). Heading to a cabin in Ashton with my family for the rest of the week so no internet or phone, likely.

Road N2 Purple Miles: 4.00
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4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Am 4 miles around the cabin in Ashton, ID. Dirt roads plus some ATV trail I found. Achilles is really hurting, though, so I'll take a bit off.

Road N2 Purple Miles: 4.00
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4.000.000.000.000.004.00

AM Achilles isn't great but I wanted to run again. 4 ez (8:45-ish pace) around Ammon.

Road N2 Purple Miles: 4.00
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4

Road N2 Purple Miles: 4.00
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5.000.000.000.000.005.00

5

Road N2 Purple Miles: 5.00
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4 in a drizzle

Road N2 Purple Miles: 4.00
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4 miles in Idaho. Last run here for a few years, likely.

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Run around airport hotel before long trip home (left at 10 am for airport, got home to SC at 2:30 am)

Road N2 Purple Miles: 4.00
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3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Lunch- 15 people for frisbee. My team was outmanned (2 newest players)- other team even offered to trade to make it more even. I was pretty tired- it wasn't too hot, but very humid. My team was down 4-2 but scored 3 straight for the win.

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4.000.000.000.000.004.00

AM 4 miles, 1 turkey

Trail M2 3 Miles: 4.00
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Lunch- frisbee. 21 people, so we set up 2 fields for the first time this year. My team won the first game 5-3. For the championship game, we were more stacked than the other team and had some very lucky throws/catches- we quickly got up 4-0 before winning 5-1. Then we did a final game to 3, where my team had 4 players and the other team had 5. My team was down 2-1 but scored the final 2 for a win. 3-0 day today.

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1.000.000.000.000.001.00

Some frisbee at a church party

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Ultimate frisbee 6v6. The other team was definitely more stacked, even offered to trade us some players but we refused. We did ok during the warmup, but I was playing H-O-Double R-I-B-L-E, in particular my throwing. It was bad. Game started and we were quickly down 4-0 before scoring 2 points to make it look a bit more even before they put us out of our misery. It was ugly, and I was the ugliest today.

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AM- 4 very, very slow miles on GE trail (9:30 or slower). Achilles hurt, and just tired and slow. I did see a box tortise and 5 or 6 turkeys, half of them babies. I think that's the first baby turkeys I've seen in the wild.

Trail N2 2 Orange Miles: 4.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
94.000.000.000.000.0094.00
Trail M2 3 Miles: 8.00Road M2 3 Orange Miles: 7.00Road N2 Purple Miles: 60.00Trail N2 2 Orange Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
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