I guess I have been too bored today with all of the posts I have done. Here is another one that kinda goes along with running progressions.
2002- 20 races 1185.47 miles
2003- 30 races 2109.7 miles
2004- 27 races 3008.81 miles
2005- 21 races 3477.23 miles
2006- 26 races 3377.05 miles
2007- 19 races 3793.5 miles
2008- 21 races 3898.85 miles
2009- 5 races 1277.38 miles so far.
22127 miles in 7 years. 169 races.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Website link to article
Here is a link to an article written about me by Jeff Arnold of the Southern Colorado Runners Club.
http://socorunners.org/news/articles/2006/AdamRichStory_2006Dec.htm
http://socorunners.org/news/articles/2006/AdamRichStory_2006Dec.htm
The experience Part 2
Well at this point in my life, I was at the gym all of the time. I had really started to focus more on basketball, and was playing sometimes 4-5 hours a night. I was hitting the plyometrics harder then ever and had forgot all about running. I had pretty much decided that I didn't care about doing it anymore and just left it behind. I was working at Best Buy and decided that I would ride my bike to work every day, which I did for almost a year. I bought a Giant ATX-970 Norba Downhill Bike and proceeded to replace everything on it. I spent something like 2 grand on all new components and thought I would ride it alot. I would also ride to Palmer Park, ride home, and ride to work some times. This could be considered my replacement for running. Well at this point a fellow worker of mine challenged me to train for the Boulder Bolder. This was in January of 02. I was still in my I don't want to run mode and told him that I didn't run anymore. Well he kept asking about training and I finally gave in. I started running again in March of 02, and jumped right back into it, too fast I might add! I thought that going to Palmer Park every day and hammering out 8 miles was the way to go, and I was using an old pair of Nike Prestos which was another bad decision. I got Patella Tendinitis very quickly, and had it in the Boulder Bolder. We didn't know about qualifying times back then, and were put in the QQ and the ZZ waves. I ran I believe 48 minutes on their official time and think that I started out like 8 minutes after my wave got going. If anybody wonders why I never run the Boulder Bolder, its because of my experience with the 02 race. Now I know it would be completely different now, but I just have never felt motivated to go back. We kept training that whole summer and ran 20 or 30 races that year, so we were now becoming runners.
I would keep going about the progressions that I had from year to year, but that would just bore everybody. The short of it:
I ended up finally running for Western State back in 05-06, transferred to UCCS where I sat out for a full year because of the transfer, decided that I didn't like UCCS, switched schools again and have been at CSU Pueblo ever since. I have not completed in college running since 06, and will never get to use up my 3 years that I have left. I still train just as hard as I was back then and can be seen around at the races. I hope every has a good season. Have a good one.
I would keep going about the progressions that I had from year to year, but that would just bore everybody. The short of it:
I ended up finally running for Western State back in 05-06, transferred to UCCS where I sat out for a full year because of the transfer, decided that I didn't like UCCS, switched schools again and have been at CSU Pueblo ever since. I have not completed in college running since 06, and will never get to use up my 3 years that I have left. I still train just as hard as I was back then and can be seen around at the races. I hope every has a good season. Have a good one.
The experience Part 1
Well I have had a good time reading about where everybody came from as far as their running, and decided that I would throw my story out there.
I don't have much of a cool story but here we go:
I started what I call "running" in around 6th grade. I would get in trouble or have an attitude problem and my mom on time said go take the dog for a run and cool off. Well this little thing became a routine for me, and I started to go run just for the heck of it. I had this route that I ran with the dog and we tried to run as fast is we could go every time. I remember doing well in the 6th grade track meet, but didn't think much of it. I got to middle school and ran a mile on your old dirt track in 6 something, but I really wasn't into running back then. I continued the running with the dog training, and started to focus more on learning how to jump higher instead of running. This became something that I did all of the time. You could catch me out in the middle of the street doing plyometrics with jump soles on. I even was dumb enough to go run 3 miles with those things on one time!! Could not walk right for a week because my calf's were in so much pain. I finally decided to give running a try my senior year of high school. I remember going on the cross country retreat somewhere outside of Canyon City at Coach Millers cabin. Doug Hugill was still the coach when I was there. My first experience with a distance run was during the retreat. They put everybody in vans and drove out this dirt road. At every mile, they asked who wanted to get out and run back to the cabin. I finally got out a 8 or 9 miles and headed back. This was the hardest thing I had done, and I remember thinking, "How on earth will I make it back??!!!" Well I did fine and feel that that jump started my season. The season went pretty well as I progressed quickly and was in the 16's. I ran well for the rest of the season but did not run well at state. That's part one of the experience:
I ran track as well, but just wasn't into it as much. I remember running the 4x800 at regionals as I led off. I ran what I would call the dumbest race ever, running behind, running in the pack, running almost on the dq line and finally running in the front. I came through in 2 flat and handed off the baton, but somehow tripped in the process and fell right down on the track scraping my stomach and shoulder pretty badly. I had to run the mile later that day, and ran horribly. At this point, I had missed out on qualifying for state and started what I call the decline period of running. At the same time, Coach Vandenbusche from Western State wanted me to run for them, but I just wasn't into running enough to make that type of commitment. I pretty much stopped running, and ran I believe one more race in 1999, the Jingle Bell Run here in Colorado Springs.
I don't have much of a cool story but here we go:
I started what I call "running" in around 6th grade. I would get in trouble or have an attitude problem and my mom on time said go take the dog for a run and cool off. Well this little thing became a routine for me, and I started to go run just for the heck of it. I had this route that I ran with the dog and we tried to run as fast is we could go every time. I remember doing well in the 6th grade track meet, but didn't think much of it. I got to middle school and ran a mile on your old dirt track in 6 something, but I really wasn't into running back then. I continued the running with the dog training, and started to focus more on learning how to jump higher instead of running. This became something that I did all of the time. You could catch me out in the middle of the street doing plyometrics with jump soles on. I even was dumb enough to go run 3 miles with those things on one time!! Could not walk right for a week because my calf's were in so much pain. I finally decided to give running a try my senior year of high school. I remember going on the cross country retreat somewhere outside of Canyon City at Coach Millers cabin. Doug Hugill was still the coach when I was there. My first experience with a distance run was during the retreat. They put everybody in vans and drove out this dirt road. At every mile, they asked who wanted to get out and run back to the cabin. I finally got out a 8 or 9 miles and headed back. This was the hardest thing I had done, and I remember thinking, "How on earth will I make it back??!!!" Well I did fine and feel that that jump started my season. The season went pretty well as I progressed quickly and was in the 16's. I ran well for the rest of the season but did not run well at state. That's part one of the experience:
I ran track as well, but just wasn't into it as much. I remember running the 4x800 at regionals as I led off. I ran what I would call the dumbest race ever, running behind, running in the pack, running almost on the dq line and finally running in the front. I came through in 2 flat and handed off the baton, but somehow tripped in the process and fell right down on the track scraping my stomach and shoulder pretty badly. I had to run the mile later that day, and ran horribly. At this point, I had missed out on qualifying for state and started what I call the decline period of running. At the same time, Coach Vandenbusche from Western State wanted me to run for them, but I just wasn't into running enough to make that type of commitment. I pretty much stopped running, and ran I believe one more race in 1999, the Jingle Bell Run here in Colorado Springs.
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