Race For The Cure 1000 miles

Riggs 2.0

posted: 10/7/2007 at 8:26 PM
modified: 10/7/2007 at 8:28 PM

One year ago my wife's aunt died of breast cancer; to show my support we ran in the local Komen "Race For The Cure". I hadn't trained at all before the race and ran a 25:38. It was tough and I forced myself not to walk, during the race I decided to start running again. I have continued to run; and have logged 1000 miles these past eleven and a half months. This weekend was again "Race For The Cure" and I improved my 5k time by over seven and a half minutes! (18:01) I want to thank everyone at runningahead.com for providing a tool which has helped to keep me motivated.

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va

posted: 10/7/2007 at 8:30 PM

All I can say is...wow!

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Fanatic #3965

posted: 10/7/2007 at 8:32 PM

Holy moly--that's something! And congrats on your mileage, too! You haev many things to be proud of. Smile

k

Kirsten

'07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

'13 Goals:

• DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

• get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

• 1st olympic distance duathlon

• 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

• Half Fanatic

• punch Type 1 in the junk

sholtsman

posted: 10/7/2007 at 11:07 PM

That's fantastic! Congrats on running 1000 miles! What a great way to show your support of such an amazing cause. Cheers to you!

Wingz

posted: 10/8/2007 at 5:32 AM

VERY impressive. Congratulations on your accomplishments.

Roads were made for journeys...

DrewEOB

Idiot

posted: 10/8/2007 at 7:51 AM

Way to go, dude. Nice improvement, and that's a great cause to run for.

Yes, I do "run in this." So should you. The weather is never as bad as it seems from behind your office or car window.

Mississippi

posted: 10/8/2007 at 8:25 AM

WOW! What a great time difference. Congratulations. Smile

trishierunner

esq.

posted: 10/8/2007 at 1:44 PM

That's a lot of time to shave off ANY race --- especially a 5K! Surprised

WTG!

2009: BQ?

modal

posted: 10/8/2007 at 4:06 PM

Dang! Your smoking dude! Wow!

Vim

derek

posted: 10/8/2007 at 9:43 PM

That is a great improvement!!! Congratulations!

Derek

Chenille

posted: 10/9/2007 at 12:14 AM

Wow - that's awesome! Congrats Smile

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Barefoot and happy

posted: 10/9/2007 at 2:02 PM

Awesome. Consistency works, it's a beautiful thing.

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'13 Goals: