Mike Wardian: Bronze Medal for the USA November 9
Hello Everyone,
Hope all is well and your lives are going well.
I am just getting back into things after the 50K World Championships which were held on Halloween (10/31/09) in Gibraltar.
I was able to to run pretty well, 3:00:56 for a bronze medal. Lead the race for most of it but got passed by a really solid guy from South Africa around 43.5K and then a Englishman about 47K, so while I am happy with a bronze I am disappointed I didn’t achieve my goal of coming home with a gold medal for the USA.
That being said, Kami Semick who was also running for the USA, won decisively for the women so we had a great showing overall all for the USA with a gold medal for the woman and a bronze for the men. The rest of the USA team did well too, Justin Fyffe, ran well finishing 9th overall and in the top 10 for his first international race and Amanda Stickel was the 5th woman and ran strong in her first race for the USA.
Another runner, Jill Perry, who is just an awesome person and a super solid runner had a tough day and didn’t do as well as she could of, but I know that she will come back strong and run really well at one of my favorite races - the JFK 50 Miler in a few weeks.
I was so proud to be a part of the team and can’t wait for my next major challenge which is coming up soon.
I am running the Richmond Marathon on 11/14/09. Then I get to do something really fun and with my family. I can not wait go for another Guinness World Record with one of our sons, Grant on 11/22/09 at the Route 66 Marathon.
I heard from one of my friends that someone was trying to break my son Pierce’s Guiness World Record at the Route 66 Marathon so we are going too and it is going to be “pram pushing duel” for the Guiness World Record.
I am really excited and looking forward to using a new BOB stroller to go after a new World Record. We haven’t decided with model to use yet, so if you have suggestions let us know. We still have the “BOB” Revolution that we used for the last World Record so might consider using that again as it was “good luck” the first time but understand some of the newer models might be lighter, so need to research that the next few weeks.
Besides that all is well and starting to feel my legs coming back after the hard effort and travel last weekend.
Really enjoying training at the moment and can’t wait to get back to it.
Hope things are going well on your ends and look forward to hearing your thoughts on which stroller/model to use for the Guiness World Record attempt in a couple weekends.
Cheers,
Mike
Ps. Herewith a video that Arlington County did about our family being a huge part of my running and it is timely with the World Record Attempt coming up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aZe1YNSrgs
Thanks and congrats to the third place finish to Mike
Hello Everyone,
Hope all is well and your lives are going well.
I am just getting back into things after the 50K World Championships which were held on Halloween (10/31/09) in Gibraltar.
I was able to to run pretty well, 3:00:56 for a bronze medal. Lead the race for most of it but got passed by a really solid guy from South Africa around 43.5K and then a Englishman about 47K, so while I am happy with a bronze I am disappointed I didn’t achieve my goal of coming home with a gold medal for the USA.
That being said, Kami Semick who was also running for the USA, won decisively for the women so we had a great showing overall all for the USA with a gold medal for the woman and a bronze for the men. The rest of the USA team did well too, Justin Fyffe, ran well finishing 9th overall and in the top 10 for his first international race and Amanda Stickel was the 5th woman and ran strong in her first race for the USA.
Another runner, Jill Perry, who is just an awesome person and a super solid runner had a tough day and didn’t do as well as she could of, but I know that she will come back strong and run really well at one of my favorite races - the JFK 50 Miler in a few weeks.
I was so proud to be a part of the team and can’t wait for my next major challenge which is coming up soon.
I am running the Richmond Marathon on 11/14/09. Then I get to do something really fun and with my family. I can not wait go for another Guinness World Record with one of our sons, Grant on 11/22/09 at the Route 66 Marathon.
I heard from one of my friends that someone was trying to break my son Pierce’s Guiness World Record at the Route 66 Marathon so we are going too and it is going to be “pram pushing duel” for the Guiness World Record.
I am really excited and looking forward to using a new BOB stroller to go after a new World Record. We haven’t decided with model to use yet, so if you have suggestions let us know. We still have the “BOB” Revolution that we used for the last World Record so might consider using that again as it was “good luck” the first time but understand some of the newer models might be lighter, so need to research that the next few weeks.
Besides that all is well and starting to feel my legs coming back after the hard effort and travel last weekend.
Really enjoying training at the moment and can’t wait to get back to it.
Hope things are going well on your ends and look forward to hearing your thoughts on which stroller/model to use for the Guiness World Record attempt in a couple weekends.
Cheers,
Mike
Ps. Herewith a video that Arlington County did about our family being a huge part of my running and it is timely with the World Record Attempt coming up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aZe1YNSrgs
Thanks and congrats to the third place finish to Mike
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