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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:

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

Long-Term Running Goals:

~~qualify for Boston Marathon~~
run Boston Marathon
run sub-2:50 marathon
run sub-1:20 1/2 marathon
run sub-17:00 5K
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

Thu, May 29, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
7.50	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	7.50

AM - got to bed late, so I slept in and did not run this morning. Figured the sleep was more important.

PM - ran 7.5 miles outside by myself. The weather was lovely, if a bit warm - about 85 degrees, although it didn't feel that hot. Maybe that means I am acclimating to the heat due to increased fitness . . . in any case, my time was 1:00:08, average pace of 8:01/mile. Felt very good. My right achilles started to bother me a little bit toward the end of the run, I stretched it out good and will have Lybi scrape and massage it. I am leaning towards getting the actual scraping tools instead of using our wooden salad spoon or the blunt edge of a knife. I am also thinking about maybe doing the Provo River 10 miler or 1/2 instead of the TOU marathon - that would be easier to get to, and we could take the whole family, as opposed to just me going to the TOU 1/2 marathon.

(ProGrid Guide - 129.95)

Night Sleep Time: 7.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 7.00	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Burt on Fri, May 30, 2008 at 00:44:45

This is the second time in my short time of blogging that I've seen the term "scraping". What's it all about? Sounds painful.

From James W on Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:01:12

Burt,

It's not nearly as bad as you think. Josse is the expert - she has gotten several of us interested in it. There is a topic about it here:

http://fastrunningblog.com/forum/index.php/topic,308.0.html

From Lybi on Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:28:39

Burt, scraping IS kind of painful, but it is only a momentary pain. The blessing is that it makes those long-term aches go away. So there is less pain in the long run...literally!

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