| 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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 22.75 | 1.50 | 2.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 27.00 |
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| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 20.00 | Saucony Grid Fastwitch 3 Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 19.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 19.50 | Weight: 0.00 | |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
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Lunch - ran 5 miles on the treadmill today, no weight training. Warmed up the first 1/4 mile at 8:00 pace, then bumped up the speed to 7:30 pace for 3.25 miles. At the 3.5 mile mark, I bumped up the speed to 6:40 pace, and held that for the last 1.5 miles. It felt good to get in some quality miles. Depending on how my legs feel tomorrow, I may do a tempo run.
PM - ran 1.5 miles with Samuel at 10:40 pace. We talked the whole time, finishing with a conversation about why salt "warms up the ecosystem", in Sam's words. |
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 6.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 2.75 | 0.00 | 2.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
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Lunch - hard workout today (relatively speaking). 4 miles on the treadmill. Warmed up 1/2 mile working up to 8:00 pace, then got into the workout. Originally intended on running 4 miles at 6:20 pace, then cooling down, but realized fairly quickly that was not going to work. After 2 miles at 6:20 pace, I slowed down again to 8:30 pace for 1/2 mile, then another 0.75 miles at 6:20 pace again, then cooled down. Today made me realize that I have definitely lost some fitness from my lack of training this past month (or two), but that is motivating to me to do better this coming year. It looks like I will be running Del Sol this year, so I want to make sure I am both healthy and in good shape for that, and I will probably make another bid for sub-3:00 at St. George this coming year, assuming I get in. We will see.
PM - ran 1.5 miles with Samuel and Sparky, just under 11:00 pace. |
| Saucony Grid Fastwitch 3 Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Lunch - 4 miles on the treadmill, nice and easy. Warmed up the first 1/2 mile, slowly getting up to 8:00 pace, then for the next 3.5 miles, I ran at 7:30 pace. It felt nice and controlled, which was good, but I am still feeling the loss in fitness. Hopefully this is still a good start for making next year a good one. |
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 4.00 |
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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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| PM - 5.5 miles total. 2 miles with Sparky, average pace of 7:56/mile. These miles felt harder than usual, perhaps because have been used to running on the treadmill recently, perhaps for another reason. I dropped Sparky off, and then did another 3.5 miles on my own, average pace of 7:31/mile. These felt easier than the first two, probably because my legs were nicely warmed up. However, I did notice that from a pulmonary perspective, it was more difficult than normal. That being said, I am glad to have started off the new year on the right track with a run. I am hoping that I can be much more consistent this entire year at running. |
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 5.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
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Noon - 4 miles on the treadmill, sort of a progressive run. Started at 8:00 pace, slowly worked my way up to 6:40 pace and held that for a mile, then slowly went back down to 8:00 pace again. Felt good, looking forward to increasing my mileage next week. |
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.50 |
| 1.5 easy miles with Samuel - that's all I ended up doing today. Something better than nothing, right? Average pace of 10:40/mile. |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 22.75 | 1.50 | 2.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 27.00 |
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| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 20.00 | Saucony Grid Fastwitch 3 Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 19.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 19.50 | Weight: 0.00 | |
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