| 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. Favorite Blogs: |
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London's Run (13.11 Miles) 01:33:15, Place overall: 14, Place in age division: 2 | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | 1.00 | 0.00 | 13.31 | 0.00 | 14.31 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.31 |
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London's Run - 1/2 marathon. 14th place overall, 2nd place in my age division. Was doing very well until mile 11, then I DIED! Went from 7th place to 14th place. More to follow later. Time for more details. Warmed up about a mile or so, not sure about the distance. Temperature was a balmy 40 degrees at the start - actually felt very good. Splits are below, along with explanations: Mile 1 - 6:30
| Went out a little too fast, but felt good.
| Mile 2 - 6:42
| This was just about perfect for the time, but the surface was absolutely deplorable. Big huge tire tracks and ruts everywhere. One of the other runners said his friend stepped in a hole and had to be carried back to the start. I got lucky, but felt my ankles turn a couple of times.
| Mile 3 - 6:43
| Right on time, felt good. Was running into a slight headwind this mile.
| Mile 4 - 6:42
| Felt easier than the previous mile. I was holding steady in 7th place at this point. Dirt road for the first portion, then onto the only section that was paved road. When we turned onto the paved road, we turned back into a slight headwind again.
| Mile 5 - 6:40
| Turned around on the road, the wind was behind us, this was the second fastest mile after the first mile. Moved into 6th place for a short time, then had another person pass me to put me back into 7th.
| Mile 6 - 6:49
| Another large portion of this mile was into the wind. Nothing special about this mile.
| Mile 7 - 6:48
| Nothing special about this mile.
| Mile 8 - 6:47
| You can see that my miles have been slowing down a bit, although not too much.
| Mile 9 - 6:54
| Slowing down a bit more
| Mile 10 - 7:00
| Slowing down more again. Feeling tired in my legs.
| Mile 11 - 7:20
| Feeling more tired. This is the last mile that was relatively normal.
| Mile 12 - 8:25
| Fell apart on this mile. I actually stopped to walk for a bit at the water station until I was done drinking. Then I started back up again. Legs were very tired, feet were hurting, lungs were burning.
| Mile 13 - 7:34
| I honestly don't know how I managed to pull out a 7:34 mile on this mile. I was really suffering here.
| Last 0.31 miles - 2:14
| My Garmin measured the course about .20 long. I was pretty good about hitting tangents well. In any case, I was absolutely spent when I finished, although Lybi said I didn't look as bad here as I did when finishing SGM. I suppose that's a good thing.
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Total time was 1:33:15. Didn't meet any of my goals, but still felt good about this run. I also felt like I did very well for the first 10 or so mile, and can now work on my endurance to improve the last 3 miles. I have high hopes for Striders in April, and think I will definitely be able to improve on my time.
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Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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