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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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Saucony Grid C2 Flash Lifetime Miles: 148.66
Mon, May 28, 2007
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
7.130.000.000.007.130.000.007.13

Didn't have to work today, so I was able to get up a little later.  Ran 6.0 miles in the morning with HAL.  The run felt good, especially considering I had run the 5K on Saturday evening.  I was expecting my calves and hamstrings to be pretty sore, but they really weren't.  My calves were a bit sore yesterday, but everything felt fine on the run.  I am going to try to increase my mileage during the week, as I will not be running this Saturday.  We will be up in the mountains of California at a family reunion on my wife's side, and I don't want to go for a run on extremely steep terrain to avoid injuring myself.  So I will try to make up for it the rest of the week.  I am shooting for 7-8 miles each day the rest of this week, nice easy miles, probably broken up a little.

Ran another 1.13 miles with the boys this evening, for a total of 7.13 miles today.  I have taken Sasha's advice to heart and will plan on getting in a run on Saturday, even if it is not as long as normal. 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Sasha Pachev on Mon, May 28, 2007 at 17:32:46

Make-up is not a good idea. Your body is not any stronger just because you are planning to take another day off in the future. Even if you did it the other way around, it would actually be worse off from the extra day off. Contrary to what might appear intuitive, it is often the extra day off that ends up injuring you. Of course, it is really not the day off itself that does it, it is the make-up mentality and/or thinking you are more fit because of that extra day off and trying to run above your ability when in truth you are actually less fit.

Ideally, the extra day off should be avoided as much as possible. If it does have to happen, you should train normally prior, and as if you had had a fever on Saturday afterwards - run a bit less than normal and slower on Monday. An idea for dealing with the rough terrain - run uphill, walk downhill on the way back.

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