Marathon Top 10 Finishes: 7 Bridges ('15), Utah Valley ('13), Salt Lake City ('08), Top of Utah ('07), and St. Louis ('04). Ran around the equator (24901.55) in 4,388 days.
And my largest challenge to date, raise $20,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in honor of my cancer survivorship and in memory of those lost to blood cancer...
DONE! $26,403.70
Grew up outside Chicago and joined the blog while I lived in Salt Lake City. Now living outside Birmingham. I am married with two daughters. Wife thinks I'm crazy for doing marathons. And yes I am crazy I'm a scientist for a living...
Typical Sunday morning run. Up early to get done before the family wakes up. The weather was cool but nice. Good news is that even with the harder miles yesterday my knee wasn't more sore. Still the usual tightness but it seems like that is how it is going to be. Overall I just took it very easy. I don't want to push my luck and I want to focus more on maintaining "ok" mileage rather than speed at this point. Avg. 9:04 HR 128
After two nights of great sleep last night was a wreck. Very tired now. Luckily I had to run into work so there was no skipping out on the run. Easy commuter run first up Foothill and back toward campus. Avg. 9:15 HR 132
More of a death march really. Luckily it appears that the previous night was a fluke as the sleep went back to normal last night. But I still feel wiped from the poor sleep before. Today will be a full day with meetings in the afternoon. Another commuter run, today I did an extended south loop before heading in. Avg. 9:24 HR 138
The meeting yesterday went well. My mentor is always so optimistic
it is hard to come out of a meeting with him with anything but a need head of
steam pushing me forward.
Last night I tried to go to sleep an hour earlier so that I
could catch up on my sleep. Problem is that I woke up two hours before my
alarm. After laying there for an hour staring at the wall both my daughter and
then wife also woke up. So I ended up getting out of bed with them and then made
my wife a snack while my daughter had hers, ate breakfast and into lab early,
4:45am. Set-up my first experiment for the day and then went for my run. With
Saturday having been a better run than I expected I wanted to push a run this
week and decided today was the day. So after 1mi warm-up I started the accelerator.
I did not look at my Garmin once during the next two miles. When it beeped the
second time I looked and the splits were 5:42 and 5:13. Keep in mind this are
both net downhill miles with the second one being the FireHouse mile. Overall,
I’m happy with my progress. My knee was definitely upset with me about this but
there will be at least another week until I do something like this again. Avg. 7:21
HR 165
Sleep was a little better. I was wiped last night but I guess a total of 13hr of work will do that to you. Most of yesterday was also just meetings (I was not the agenda) we had two visiting speakers so between their seminars, lunch, etc. I also slept in an extra half an hour. I did a new run this morning. I was planning on 8 but misjudged. Still I good course. From my house down to Memory Grove then up back to campus. The majority of the first 5mi is downhill with the majority of the up in mile 6 on a zig-zagging ramp. Avg. 8:50 HR 153
Stroller miles in the PM. Today was "one of those days". When I run in the morning I normally just go into work in my running outfit and change after my shower. That was my plan for today. But I misjudged one thing and that kept me from getting an hour window the rest of the day. Instead I just went home an hour early and ran Kaitlyn to SH and took a longer way back. I pushed it on the way back and pushing a stroller up hill is a real workout. Avg. 7:31 HR 150
Up early to get my stuff done before the family woke up. Tried going past Starbucks at 5:45 to see if I would run into Chad and his group but no one was there. So I continued on toward Memory Grove again. I took a slightly different route there. It rained (45F) the whole way there but by the time I started up the canyon the rain had stopped. I continued to about 1 mile past the City Creek gate house just in time to see the sun break through the clouds over Black Mountain before making my way back out. At the bottom a group of ~10+ "runner" looking guys came flying down on the dirt path to my south. They were really moving. I asked one if it was a race and he said sort of. Then once to the top of the City Creek out look I ran into a truck setting up cones marking a 5K course. Finally on my way back down Foothill Dr to home I saw the 11-mile mark for the Hometown heroes training runs. Definitely a lot of running going on this morning. Knee was sore after this one but nothing worse than it has been. Next week I will front load my mileage as I'm traveling and I don't know how much running I will get in. Avg. 8:29 HR 139
