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Woods Cross,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 01, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

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Current Running Life:
5k: 17:50 (2010 NSL)
10k: 38:20 (2007 Des News)
1/2 Marathon: 1:23:30 (2009 Provo Half)
Marathon: 2:53:46 (2007 St George)

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Personal:

Daddy to 3 great kids - 16 year old son and 11 year old twin daughters

I do not know what tomorrow will bring but I do know it will start with a run.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Grid A2 Lifetime Miles: 125.40
GoRun2 Lifetime Miles: 53.70
Adrenaline 2014 Blue (1) Lifetime Miles: 442.70
Adrenaline 2014 Red (1) Lifetime Miles: 429.20
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.253.7511.00

I'm taking a slight deviation from Pftiz's plan.  This is supposed to be a recovery week but I am just starting to feel good again and want to get in a couple of solid weeks of training before Ogden.  I missed last weeks VO2 max workout so instead of the scheduled 5X600 I opted for the 6X1,000.  Other than the slight breeze, the weather was perfect this morning.  During my warm up I got the low battery warning on my Garmin.  I cut the warm up short so I could make it through the workout before my Garmin died.  Starting earlier would also mean that I would only have one repeat into the wind.  I ran blind again so I could get better at running by feel.  My splits were all over the place but all faster than target pace (6:00/mile) so I can live with that.
 Repeat Split Pace/Mile Comment
 1 3:42 5:55 Struggled to get going.
 2 3:37 5:47 Felt good.  Very relaxed.
 3 3:27 5:31 No idea how this was so fast.  Maybe Garmin error?
 4 3:33 5:41 Legs feel good.  Breathing a little labored.
 5 3:35 5:44 Legs starting to get heavy.  Fell asleep halfway through and forced myself to refocus.
 6 3:41 5:54 All into the wind.  Took a lot of effort.

 I am very happy with the workout.  There was absolutely no achilles pain.  I think I may be in the clear.

I have a non-running related question.  My girls are going to be baptized later this month and they asked if I would do it.  I'm not sure that I should or could.  While I live my life the way I should and do not do anything that would prevent me from doing it, I only recently started going to church and only go to Sacrament meeting when I do go.  Do you think it would be more appropriate for the grandfather, who has much stronger beliefs, to do it?

Adrenaline 2010 2 Miles: 11.00
Comments
From DonGardinero on Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 13:23:31 from 75.162.190.158

Nice run.

I'm not a very religious person, so I can't really help you there.

From Teena Marie on Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 13:41:14 from 155.99.200.74

First, AWESOME run!!!!

Second, I know that everyone will have a different opinion on this, so I hope I am not judged on mine, but I will be honest with you. My grandfather is one of the most Christ-like people I know, he never goes to church, but he does hold the Aaronic priesthood. He has always participated in the blessings, confirmations, etc. of our family. It would not be the same if he didn't. If your girls want to be baptized, and want you to do it, and you are living a good life, then I think you should do it. I don't know what the "standard" or "rule" is though. Have you asked? What do you think you should do, what does your gut tell you? Only you can answer that question.

Sorry, that probably wasn't that helpful.

(Seriously ... congrats on the pain free killer run.)

From Rhett on Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 14:41:07 from 74.41.249.102

Andy, if you have been going to church for the last little while and in your heart are committed to continuing to honor your priesthood, and your Bishop says it's ok, then you should do it.

Great repeats by the way.

From Kathie on Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 14:52:08 from 63.248.105.188

I agree with Teena and Rhett. I know I just hear a talk about this I thought it was in conference, I spent a little while looking for the talk but could find it. The talk said that the father should be the one doing the priesthood ordinances in most cases. I will keep trying to find it.

Nice run, Yea for no pain!!!!!

From Smooth on Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 15:07:01 from 174.23.237.236

The talk is by Elder Boyd K. Packer at this Conference, the Sat morning session. Here's part of the quote of the story:

President Joseph F. Smith made this statement about the priesthood in the home: “In the home the presiding authority is always vested in the father, and in all home affairs and family matters there is no other authority paramount. To illustrate this principle, a single incident will perhaps suffice. It sometimes happens that the elders are called in to administer to the members of a family. Among these elders there may be presidents of stakes, apostles, or even members of the first presidency of the Church. It is not proper under these circumstances for the father to stand back and expect the elders to direct the administration of this important ordinance. The father is there. It is his right and it is his duty to preside. He should select the one who is to administer the oil, and the one who is to be mouth in prayer, and he should not feel that because there are present presiding authorities in the Church that he is therefore divested of his rights to direct the administration of that blessing of the gospel in his home. (If the father be absent, the mother should request the presiding authority present to take charge.) The father presides at the table, at prayer, and gives general directions relating to his family life whoever may be present.”25

During the Vietnam War, we held a series of special meetings for members of the Church called into military service. After such a meeting in Chicago, I was standing next to President Harold B. Lee when a fine young Latter-day Saint told President Lee that he was on leave to visit his home and then had orders to Vietnam. He asked President Lee to give him a blessing.

Much to my surprise, President Lee said, “Your father should give you the blessing.”

Very disappointed, the boy said, “My father wouldn’t know how to give a blessing.”

President Lee answered, “Go home, my boy, and tell your father that you are going away to war and want to receive a father’s blessing from him. If he does not know how, tell him that you will sit on a chair. He can stand behind you and put his hands on your head and say whatever comes.”

This young soldier went away sorrowing.

About two years later I met him again. I do not recall where. He reminded me of that experience and said, “I did as I was told to do. I explained to my father that I would sit on the chair and that he should put his hands on my head. The power of the priesthood filled both of us. That was a strength and protection in those perilous months of battle.”

Another time I was in a distant city. After a conference we were ordaining and setting apart leaders. As we concluded, the stake president asked, “Can we ordain a young man to be an elder who is leaving for the mission field?” The answer, of course, was yes.

As the young man came forward, he motioned for three brethren to follow and stand in for his ordination.

I noticed on the back row a carbon copy of this boy, and I asked, “Is that your father?”

The young man said, “Yes.”

I said, “Your father will ordain you.”

And he protested, “But I’ve already asked another brother to ordain me.”

And I said, “Young man, your father will ordain you, and you’ll live to thank the Lord for this day.”

Then the father came forward.

Thank goodness he was an elder. Had he not been, he soon could have been! In the military they would call that a battlefield commission. Sometimes such things are done in the Church.

The father did not know how to ordain his son. I put my arm around him and coached him through the ordinance. When he was finished, the young man was an elder.

Then something wonderful happened. Completely changed, the father and son embraced. It was obvious that had never happened before.

The father, through his tears, said, “I didn’t get to ordain my other boys.”

Think how much more was accomplished than if another had ordained him, even an Apostle.

While the priesthood is presently all over the world, we call on every elder and high priest, every holder of the priesthood to stand, like Gideon’s small but powerful force of 300, in his own place. We now must awaken in every elder and high priest, in every quorum and group, and in the father of every home the power of the priesthood of the Almighty.

The Lord said that “the weak things of the world shall come forth and break down the mighty and strong ones.”26

I second Rhett's comment. You're an AWESOME father!

EXCELLENT interval workout!

From Andy on Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 15:50:46 from 159.212.71.69

Thanks for posting that Smooth (and Kathie). It really helped.

From Tom on Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:23:00 from 137.65.56.16

I was just going to mention the Elder Packer talk when I noticed Smooth already had. I agree wholeheartedly with what Rhett and Teena and the others have said.

BTW nice run also.

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