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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Grid C2 Flash Lifetime Miles: 148.66
Wed, Jul 19, 2006
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.000.000.000.005.00

Was unable to run on Monday due to travel, and did not run yesterday as I have been recovering from an eye infection. Ran 5 miles today - was planning on running 6, but took it out a little too hard, and decided to ease off. Total time was approx. 41:15. I am planning on running 7-8 miles tomorrow, and will also increase my long run this week. The one thing I have going against me is the heat - it continues to be hotter in the early morning - this morning it was 92 - and we are now in monsoon, which means the humidity is up as well. Probably time for me to slow down some more. Next week should be back to normal, and I should be able to get upwards of 35 miles in next week.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Sasha Pachev on Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 15:41:28

Slowing down is just fine. You have enough speed to run not only 3:30, but a sub-3:00 right now. However, based on your training so far, it seems that your bottleneck will be your glycogen stores and other things that develop as you run distance.

From James on Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 17:57:46

I am assuming you are referring to both my weekly mileage as well as my long runs? Thankfully, I still have about 2 1/2 months before St. George, which should be enough time for me to get in some quality long runs and to increase my weekly mileage.

From Sasha Pachev on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 17:31:20

I think daily mileage serves as a foundation/walls, while the long runs are the roof. In other words, if your long run is more than twice as long (plus or minus to adjust for individual variations) as your daily mileage, it does not do you much good. You need your long run, but you also need to be fit enough to reap its benefits.

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