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Location:

Mesa,AZ,USA

Member Since:

May 12, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I started running again in 2007 after 14 years of not running.

Mile - 4:59 (high school 1992), 5:57 (9/21/2010 ARR Open Mile)

2 mile - 11:10 (high school 1992)

5k - 21:54 (11/18/2010 Tempe Road Runners 5k)

10k - 48:29 (5/9/2009 Race for Hospice)

Unofficial 10k - 47:11 (1/27/2011 Red Mountain Park)

1/2 marathon - 1:49:00 (4/4/2009 Havasu Half)

Marathon - 4:33:09 (11/21/2009 Mesquite Marathon)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run a half marathon in under two hours.

Run a marathon in close to 4 hours.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy long enough to live through the millenium.

Personal:

I am married and have six kids. 

Blog title explanation

Bloggers I've met in real life: 1MileToGo, Aaron Kennard, Andrea North, Arizona Desert Monsoon, auntieem, Bec, Ben, Benjamin, Bonnie, Camille, Cari, Collin Anderson, David Holt, DooneEight Kid Mom, Erico, Flatlander, Gary, Jake Krong, JamesW, Jose, Josse, Julieesplin, JunKelli, Kerri, KP, Kyle Dion, Lightitup, Little Bad Legs, Lybi, Marthon Dreamer, M, Mary Ann Schauerhamer, Misty, Nan, Peds Endo Doc, Rachelle, RADRhett, Riley Cook, Rossy, runningafterbabies, Sasha, Scott Hughes, Scott (Kelli's husband), Scott Wesemann, Slow Joe, Spencer Simpson, Stephen, Steve Piccolo, Susie, The Rookie, Toby, Tracy, Twinkies, TylerS, Walter

Favorite Blogs:

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Three reasons why today was a great day:

1)  The Suns won.  Woot!  Woot!

2)  I met two more bloggers and wasn't murdered.

3)  My favorite professional wrestler stopped by.

Meeting Nan was kind of surreal.  I felt like I'd already met her since we're such good internet buddies.  Her Michael Clarke Duncan voice kind of threw me for a loop.  Just kidding.  She sounded just like I'd imagined, which is strange because it never works out like that.  (I'd really like to hear ChrisM's, Sam's, and KP's voices.)  But meeting Aaron was like meeting someone "for real" because we've just been casual acquaintances on the blog.  It's just now soaking in that I had an undefeated, course record setting, marathoner in my house chatting away like we picked up from last we left off on the blog.

I kind of forgot that we weren't going to be moved in to our new house yet when I told the Kennards to drop by.  It would have been another 20 miles for them to come to Queen Creek.  They planned on coming over for dinner Saturday night, but their flight was delayed three hours and threw a major monkey wrench in their plans.  So they came over this morning, and we got all the kids up to head over to the new house.  My wife made her world famous biscuits and gravy.  Nan brought some fruit and you probably can't see in the picture, but she brought (and ate) donut holes.  How does an undefeated marathoner eat donut holes??

Here's the Kennard crew, me, and Emily.  Emily loves the camera.  By the way, it's Ke'-nurd, not Kuh-nard'.  Who knew?

Nan can't take a bad picture.  You got to love her son's shirt.  It says, "MY MOM RULES."  His grandma gave it to him.  It says Alaska on the sleeve.  He told me.

And of course Nacho Libre dropped by unexpectedly.  He's da bessst.


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Comments
From ChrisM on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 04:55:28 from 130.88.16.210

Those pictures are cool!

I will see if I can record me reading something and stick it on YouTube

From Snoqualmie on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:35:23 from 24.18.192.33

Great pictures! (I have the same granite as you in my kitchen. What fine taste you have.)

From Bonnie on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 13:30:52 from 128.196.228.134

Awesome pictures Burt!! I did not get the text, darn it and no I haven't changed my number, what is up with that?

I love the Ke'-nurds and am insanely jealous!!

I like the looks of the new house Burt, glad you came out of the move unscathed.

From Scott Wesemann on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 13:49:16 from 66.239.250.209

Hey Burt, I think we have the same granite counter tops. You can verify this if you crash at my place next month. Nice pics.

From Burt on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 13:53:29 from 206.19.214.144

Chris - Make sure it's Hemmingway, so I can fall asleep.

Sno - LOL! It was the selling point for my wife.

Bonnie - Jealous that I got to meet the Kennards or jealous that you didn't get any world famous biscuits and gravy?

Scott - When I get there, I'll core drill a piece of yours out and take it back to the lab for analysis.

From ChrisM on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 14:09:13 from 217.171.129.71

stay tuned... Tomorrow I will video blog (vlog) and YouTube it

From Aaron Kennard on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 14:29:17 from 174.51.250.151

Nice meeting you and your family as well Burt - thanks again for having us over and feeding us breakfast, especially amidst the craziness of moving.

From seeaprilrun on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 17:44:59 from 68.103.243.136

Wow Burt, it is remarkable how many bloggers you have met despite not living in Utah!

From Carolyn in Colorado on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 18:17:14 from 198.241.217.15

I met Nan before you did, nah nah nee ner nah nah.

From Scott Ensign on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 20:07:51 from 129.123.3.31

hey that's a cool shirt Nacho is wearing. I have one of those too.

From Burt on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 21:38:38 from 206.19.214.144

April - I'll have to make a special trip to go out and see you since you live in the middle of nowhere. I can't imagine you've met any. I'd hate for you to feel left out. :)

Carolyn - Maybe so, but she likes me more.

Scott - Oh yeah. So do I. I didn't even notice. How cool is that?

From Nan on Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:02:53 from 174.51.250.151

Yeah, Ke-nurd. Kinda like turd.

Its definitely fun to meet bloggers even if they do jump out of the bushes and run towards you while flailing their arms in the air like a crazy person NACHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Tue, May 25, 2010 at 07:08:00 from 78.32.130.9

I thought it would be Ke-nard oh well LOL...

love it Burt your getting to meet so many bloggers I havent met any yet not even Chris LOL and hes not far away but his video today lets you in on his English Accent !

From KP on Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:40:59 from 65.208.22.26

why do you want to hear my voice? do you want me to say "y'all" a lot and act southern? oh wait, i am southern. that will not be a problem.

From Burt on Tue, May 25, 2010 at 19:32:17 from 206.19.214.144

Nan - here's the story behind that. I planned on wearing the Nacho mask and coming out and hitting your car. But then I had to take my oldest daughter (the one you didn't meet) to her aunt's house to babysit. I asked my wife what happens if you get her while I'm gone. She said then I'll have to just come inside wearing it. So I rushed her over 2 blocks away and sure enough you guys showed up as I was coming back. So I stopped on the side to put the mask on. The problem was, the people that lived at the house I stopped in front of just pulled up and were wondering what the heck I was doing. I waved them on. Then I pulled up a little farther, put the mask on, and started running down the street. I had to make sure you saw me coming so I started acting like a monkey. Then I pounded your car while saying to myself, "Please be a rental. Please be a rental."

From Burt on Tue, May 25, 2010 at 19:34:43 from 206.19.214.144

Sam - how about we call them the 'nards for short?

KP - As our resident southern belle, of course we want to hear you say y'all.

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