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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

Mon, May 21, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
6.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.00	0.00	0.00	6.00

Ran 5.25 easy miles in the morning. Will run again this evening with the boys. I kept the pace nice and easy, no speeding up, don't have my splits right now, but each mile was right around 8:30 pace. I noticed that if I want to keep my pace slower, I have to concentrate on shortening my stride. If my concentration starts to wander, I find myself unconsciously increasing my stride length, and as a result, increasing my speed. As I was glancing at the Garmin, I would see my pace go from around 8:45/mile to as fast as 8:05/mile without any recognizable change in effort on my part. Weird. I am planning on putting in a 2-mile tempo in the middle of my run tomorrow to see where I am at in preparation for the 5K on Saturday - planning on running around 7:00/mile for those two miles. This is slower than I am hoping to run the 5K in, but I don't really want to run 5K race pace, more like 10K race pace.

Ran 0.75 miles (approx.) with the boys in the evening, for a total of 6 miles today.

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

Comments

From Lybi on Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:04:32

If only I had your unconscious speeding-up problem! You're a cutie.

From Sasha Pachev on Mon, May 21, 2007 at 13:01:16

Garmin immediate pace is not very reliable. You have to average it over quarters, then it becomes much more accurate. Good idea to do a tempo to feel the waters.

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