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...
Busy day. In work in the AM before breakfast with the family and church. Then after church ran errands with my older daughter until lunch. After lunch the two of us then went for a run to SugarHouse to feed the seagulls. Some soccer in the backyard while dinner cooked now back at work... Knee still pretty tight but my hip wasn't as bad.
AM: With the hectic schedule and sore knee I'm thinking doubles this week. It is easier on the body and time to get in the miles that way... I ended up working until 11pm then up for a commute run in. Nothing special very easy and relaxing. Avg. 9:47 HR 145
PM: The day was ok. Knee felt better this evening. Going to go to sleep early tonight and catch up a little on the sleep... Avg. 7:48 HR 143 (2 min per mi faster about the same HR...)
Well yesterday can be written up to the brain dead. I'm not sure what was going on. I worked like crazy and really felt like I didn't get a single thing done. Just upset and missed my run. Today was slightly better and as soon as we were done with the bedtime routine I went out the door. I still have about another hour I want to get taken care of before sleep so we'll see. The body weight was post run. Not proud to say that is my lowest weight in my limited memory. I need to take a better care of myself when work starts to get crazy. I'm not sure what it is about this year. I know I'm normally a workaholic it comes with the career choice. In any case the run tonight was well deserved and well worth it. I did a big south loop down 33rd. I met the new Westminster CC coach and ran with him for a couple of the miles. He seems like a good guy. I told him about the blog. See if he stops by. Avg. 7:30 HR 162
AM: T.O.F, but I got out. Just to the City Creek overlook
and back from lab. Day is going well so far. Lot to get done before lab meeting
on Monday but so be it… Avg. 9:29 HR 142
Thank you to those who are still showing up to check on my
training. I’m sorry about not being good about checking in on others. Right now
I have to focus on family and work and until I get the two manuscripts I’m
sitting on out the door it will be not much “free” time for checking on all the
other blogs I would like to know about.
PM: Stress release mile. Trying to sneak in a couple
2-a-days. It is easier scheduling family and experiment time around 2X45min
breaks than 1X1.5 hr break. Also, from last year I really think the 2/d
approach is healthier and produces better results. Whatever was going on with
my weight is now fixed (Sat, as I type this.). I think it was a combination of
a bad day, dehydration and a PM weighing vs. my usual Mon/AM. In any case
tonight was rough so I went to do my FireHouse mile and blow off some steam.
For those of you who don’t know this is a nice gradual downhill mile that I run
hard from time to time. I’ve run a 4:51 on it last year. It is a 2-mi wu to the
mile then a nice grade down to the Memory Grove overlook. Tonight I hit it in a
5:01!, HR 184. I was happy with that. The course a ran was the same as in the morning
just with this mile hard. Avg. 7:33 HR 157
Came home a little early from work and did a SugarHouse run with Kaitlyn. Feeling a little better overall. Had a good conversation with my grandpa after the run. Avg. 7:59 HR 142
AM: Met with Eric at the Jordan River Trail. It was great running with him again. The conversation is always stimulating. Fun to run alone the water and see all the animal (mostly bird) life. Now in lab for a little getting ready for my Mon meeting. Avg. 7:40 HR 134
PM: My new pair of shoes arrived from St. George Running Center yesterday (Thanks Steve.). After dinner I had to run to the store so I literally ran to the store. Also, I took my youngest for her first run ever. She did fine until the last two blocks and then get a little whiney.
