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Location:

Mesa,AZ,

Member Since:

Mar 20, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

  • Mile: 4:37 (HS)
  • 2 Mile: 10:11 (HS)
  • 10K: 35:52 (HS)
  • 5K - 18:15 (ARR Summer Race Series #1 - 2008)
  • 1/2 Marathon: 1:32:00 (St. George 2008 enroute)
  • Marathon: 3:10:56 (St. George 2008)

Short-Term Running Goals:

  1. Get down to 155 lbs 
  2. Run sub 18:00 5K
  3. Run sub 1:30 1/2 marathon
  4. Run sub 3:00 marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

  1. qualify for Boston Marathon
  2. run Boston Marathon
  3. run sub-2:50 marathon
  4. run sub-1:20 1/2 marathon
  5. run sub-17:00 5K
  6. beat my high school 10K time of 35:52

Personal:

I was married in 1997 to my beautiful wife Lybi (confessions of a piano teacher on the blog), and we have 3 wonderful boys who are just as active as I was when I was little (he he). I grew up in southeastern Michigan, and my family became members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when I was 6. I attended BYU, and served a mission in Berlin, Germany. After graduating from BYU with a degree in Health and Human Performance (pre-physical therapy), I promptly changed careers and started working with computers (although no programming for me). We have moved across the country several times, and currently live in Mesa, AZ.  I work in computer security for a major nationwide homebuilder.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Grid C2 Flash Lifetime Miles: 148.66
Mon, Oct 27, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.000.000.000.006.00

AM - 3 miles with Sparky, average pace of 7:54/mile.  Started off nice and easy, about 8:30/mile, then slowly warmed up.  Had a bit of a rough night - Adam woke up croupy in the middle of the night and it took me a while to get back to sleep after that.  Although Lybi was actually up for a couple hours with him - what a sweetheart!  He was finally able to settle down after eating a popsicle and drinking some ice water.  I have some work to do tonight, so I am really hoping I will be able to get out for some more miles tonight.  I am going to register today for the Arcadia Run for Pride 5K, which I am very excited about - it is a flat course, basically out and back - out on one side of the canal, and back on the other.  Then I am also going to register for that 10K on the 15th as well, unless I do really crummy on the 5K, in which case I will do the 5K there as well.

PM - 3 more easy miles, average pace of 7:32/mile.  First two miles at 7:28 each, then the third mile eased up a little bit and ran it in 7:37.  All three miles felt nice and easy.  I think that I am really benefiting from the increased fitness right now, and am seeing it with my faster easy miles. 

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Spencer on Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 13:14:28

I think I may have been running right with you for a lot of the first half of St George. Did you have trouble with your shoe and have to stop to fix it?

From James W on Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 17:02:31

Yes, I actually had to fix my shoe, not once, but TWICE! The second time, I just pulled out my insole that was bunching up and threw it on the side of the road.

From Spencer on Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 15:34:10

That stinks to have stuff like that happen when you have a goal.

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