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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

Sat, Apr 29, 2006

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
7.20	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	7.20

Instead of driving to the track and doing my long run at the track, I ran to the track (2.6 miles), ran 2 miles there, then ran back. It was refreshingly different, and definitely broke up the monotony quite nicely. Since I didn't know the actual distance to the track until after I ran, I just took my splits to and from the track, as well as my mile splits at the track. I kind of like this approach. Splits were:

To the track - 21:17. Mile 1 - 8:21. Mile 2 - 8:18. Back home - 21:04. Total time - 59 minutes flat.

I am going to continue with the 5 days per week for a couple more weeks before adding the 6th day, but am going to add a mile on to each of my two easy runs this week to increase my mileage. I also went ahead and bought a new pair of running shoes, and will plan on integrating them into my runs this week as soon as I get them.

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

Comments

From Sasha Pachev on Mon, May 01, 2006 at 20:14:07

How did the pace feel, and how did you feel immediately after and the next next after the run?

From James on Mon, May 01, 2006 at 21:44:56

The pace felt fine - I did have a short breather when I got to the track and before I left to get a drink. When I got home I felt fine, and my legs were fine the next day as well. I am encouraged by how my body felt this week, and feel that I am on the right track. I had gotten some feedback from the marathon chat forum about running a 1/2 marathon 3 weeks before St. George, and using it as a training run, since it happens to have both a tough uphill as well as some great downhills to run, and as of right now, I have decided I am going to do this.

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