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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

Wed, Jul 25, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
8.05	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.05	0.00	0.00	8.05

AM - ran 6 easy miles in the morning. Made a conscious effort to run a bit slower today to give my body a bit of a break. Felt a little out of sync, although I was able to keep the pace about 20 seconds slower than yesterday. Total time was something like 49:36, average pace of 8:16/mile. Not much else to report - will put in a couple more miles this evening.

PM - ran 2.05 miles with the boys in our double jogging stroller. All 3 boys plus the weight of the jogging stroller meant I was pushing around 120 pounds. We had a terrific storm this afternoon I would have loved to go out and run in, but didn't have the chance. But it felt good running with the boys, although it was incredibly humid - I was sweating buckets. Total time was 17:14, average pace of 8:24/mile for the run. Not too bad, considering the weight I was pushing :)

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

Comments

From michelle on Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 15:21:39

This is for lybi, her site isn't working if I click on her name it takes me to the main page and she's not on the list of blogs. Maybe it's just my computer or have you taken yours off? Anyway thanks for the comment, holy cow being very appropraite! Milk run i.e out around a dairy with a little smell of cows! hee hee, but still lovely run!

From Sasha Pachev on Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 15:56:10

Lybi's Enable Blog option got disabled. Was it accidental?

From James in Sunny AZ on Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 17:33:24

No - she temporarily (I hope) disabled her blog because she is not getting a chance to run right now. Hopefully when the weather cools down a bit, we can get her back out in the afternoon or something. I would suggest direct encouragement, but she rarely checks her email . . . maybe she will see my entry and take heart (or chew me out . . .)

From Sasha Pachev on Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 18:40:54

OK, some motivational thoughts for her. Right now, two of the top ten women marathoners in Utah are mothers of 5 children (Lisa Magnum, and Julie Thomas). The fastest woman on the Fast Running Blog is a mother of 4 (Katie Danner). Now statistically, I am not exactly sure how many women of elite competitive age (17-45) would be mothers of 5, but in our ward it is much less than 20%, and we are talking about a population that is pre-disposed to having more children than average - active LDS. So for the general population even in Utah it would be much less. You would think those women simply would not have a chance against single post-college girls, but they do just fine.

What this tells me is that your ability to succeed has more to do with your determination and commitment than with your circumstances and opportunities. Commitment and desire eventually create the opportunity and circumstance.

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