| 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: |
|
Click to donate
to Ukraine's Armed Forces
|
|
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 30.00 | 3.00 | 6.50 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 40.00 |
|
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 25.50 | Saucony Grid Fastwitch 3 Miles: 6.00 |
|
| Night Sleep Time: 42.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 42.00 | 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 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Lunch - 5 miles on the trusty treadmill, programmed for 1/4 mile warmup at 8:30 pace, then 4.75 miles at 7:30 pace. Felt pretty good, pretty controlled, but like I normally do on Mondays, not 100% normal after the weekend. However, the breathing was good, and the legs were fine. I had felt a little bit of soreness early last week in my shins, but that seems to have gone away. |
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 5.00 |
|
| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
|
Lunch - 5 miles on the treadmill again. 1/2 mile warmup at 8:00 pace, then 4 miles at 7:30 pace, then 1/2 mile cooldown at 8:00 pace. Nothing much else to report. Everything feels pretty good.
PM - 1.5 miles with Samuel, average pace of 10:30/mile. Made posole for dinner tonight - it turned out quite good. A very healthy meal as well - crushed tomatoes, onions, oregano, diced pork (we used leftovers from a pork roast) and white hominy. Not a whole lot to it, but it was the first time I had made it. The real trick is to get our oldest two to try anything new. Adam totally snarfed it down. |
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 5.00 |
|
| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Lunch - hard workout today on the treadmill. 1/2 mile workout to shake the legs loose at 8:30 pace, the on to the meat of the workout: Tempo run of 5 miles at 6:40 pace. I ended up adding to the difficulty of the workout by making the last 1/2 mile of the tempo run at 6:00 pace. 1/2 mile cooldown at 8:30 pace, and I was pretty tired (not to mention absolutely soaked) after that. Got myself some gatorade to replentish my glycogen stores, which helped. |
| Saucony Grid Fastwitch 3 Miles: 6.00 |
|
| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
|
Lunch - recovery run - 4.5 easy miles on the treadmill at 8:00 pace. Felt very easy, especially after the tempo run yesterday. I am hoping I will be able to slowly extend that 6:40 pace out as I continue to train. After the run, did lat pulldowns, seated rows, ab crunch machine and planks. Planning on running with Samuel this afternoon.
PM - 1.5 miles with Samuel, he earned his smoothie today by averaging under 10:00 pace for the entire run. Average pace of 9:59/mile. |
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 4.50 |
|
| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | 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 |
|
AM - 4 miles. I took the morning off, since Lybi had her ultrasound, and after dropping Joey off at school, I ran 4 miles outside. Don't recall my average pace, but it felt good. Found out great news at the ultrasound - we're having a girl! Of course, I would have still been very happy if we were having another boy, but having a girl is something we have wished for for a long time. Not to mention in Samuel's baby blessing, I had told him he would be a good example to his brothers and sisters, so I was pretty sure one was bound to come eventually.
PM - ran 1.5 miles with Samuel, average pace of 10:11/mile. He did pretty good - started out pretty fast, slowed down in the middle, and then sped up at the end to bring his average pace down. |
| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| AM - got up early this morning and ran with my Del Sol teammates. We started at the corner of Ellsworth and Bush Highway and ran up the back side of Usury Pass before heading down the other side and eventually making our way to Camille's, who graciously offered her home as both a staging area as well as for a post-run breakfast. Took it real easy up the back side of Usury Pass - Adam will remember what this was like from last year's Del Sol - averaged about 10:00/mile and chatted with Burt - then once we hit the peak, I took off and hammered some downhill miles. 7:15, 6:41 and 6:25. Then I slowed down again with about a 7:30 mile, followed by another 7:15 mile (didn't even realize I had sped up again), and then a final mile in 6:45. Then I ran back a little bit and found a couple of other runners from the team and ran back in with them to make it an even 11 miles. Average pace of 8:01/mile. |
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 11.00 |
|
| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 30.00 | 3.00 | 6.50 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 40.00 |
|
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 25.50 | Saucony Grid Fastwitch 3 Miles: 6.00 |
|
| Night Sleep Time: 42.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 42.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
|
|
| Debt Reduction Calculator |
|
New Kids on the Blog
(need a welcome):
Lone Faithfuls
(need a comment):
|