| Location: Spanish Fork,UT,USA Member Since: May 24, 2011 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: In May 2010 I was large and started running. Now I'm much smaller :), -63 lbs.
PR's:
1/2 Marathon - 1:13:25
Marathon - 2:32:40 Short-Term Running Goals: Merge road and trail running and adventure run bonkers. Long-Term Running Goals: Sub 2:30 marathon. Run my best at distances from half marathon to 100 miles. Personal: Happily married with 4 great kids. Running is but one of the amazing vehicles for connecting with others and celebrating life. Gratitude! Favorite Blogs: |
|
Click to donate
to Ukraine's Armed Forces
|
| Miles: | This week: | 0.00 |
Month: | 0.00 |
Year: | 0.00 |
|
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 184.66 | 31.70 | 23.75 | 2.00 | 242.11 |
|
| Kinvara 3 Yellow Miles: 85.18 | Altra Superior Miles: 51.65 | X - Stairmaster Miles: 36.00 | New Balance MR00 Miles: 54.76 |
|
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.10 |
| Ran the orem route with Matt, Reed, Toni and Mike. Felt pretty good today after the day off and all the tlc yesterday. The guys did a tempo push and i joined in for a half mile and then dialed it back to try and be smart. Therapy later. 6:55 |
| Kinvara 3 Yellow Miles: 10.10 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.01 |
| Super fun out and back on the new trail from Matt's. Felt really good today. |
| Kinvara 3 Yellow Miles: 10.01 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Race: |
Trail 51 Cascadia Trail series (7.75 Miles) 01:03:53, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 1 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.50 | 0.00 | 7.75 | 0.00 | 10.25 |
|
Trial at Trail 51 -
I had to run this race today as I knew it would be a good one. 1951
feet of climbing on an awesome route, so much fun. My hip/priformis is
still a bit wonky but I'm happy with the effort considering. Good enough
for 5th place today. Warmed up 1.5 before the start on the first part of the course which is hilly but I took it very easy. Piriformis was a little sore but felt like it would be ok. I was happy to run into Melody at the start. There is always a great group of people at these smaller races.
Started off well on the initial mile+ climb to dry canyon and then
the fun begins. Ran/hiked the dry canyon section to curly (so lol
steep), actually dry heaved close to the top and laughed at myself, and
then had to hike a couple short sections of steep before the rollers. Most of this I was with or near Melody, Jonathan, and Dave Taylor. They all passed me about half way up dry canyon. My muscle was sore climbing today and I just couldn't get into a rhythm. It was nice to have that little group close. We were all encouraging and leap frogging each other. I hoped I could recover and that the soreness would go away on the rollers and was happy that it did. I slowed for a minute at the crest of dry and took a drink from my handheld and a GU and pushed ahead. I
recovered well on the rollers and then got into a really nice groove on
the Mario Kart single track section on the return. I could see Melody and Jonathan up ahead and was closing the distance. I think we were all much happier on that down stretch and we all wished each other well when I went by. I felt great on the return and tried to go into reckless abandon mode to the finish. I couldn't go quite as fast as I wanted but was still moving good. I could see
the fourth place guy up ahead and I closed like a freight train but I
ran out of course at the end and just missed him. Soooo much fun.
Short cool down after. It was fun to race again. I am happy with today even though I know I will come back and crush this when I'm 100%.
|
| Altra Superior Miles: 10.25 |
| | Comments(4) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Chiro, pt, strength, and stretch. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
|
Because i want to get better i decided i need to cross train some and allow my body to heal the rest of the way. Today i pulled a poor Fritz impression and tried to make friends with the Stairmaster. I learned that the stairmaster is not and doesn't want to be friends. It hates you. It can be hard And can punish your quads and calves. So i pushed it for an hour and got some work done. I'll feel that tomorrow. Thanks for the info Fritz :). Had a great session at the chiro tonight as well.
|
| X - Stairmaster Miles: 9.00 |
| | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 3.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 10 miles on the stairmaster. Level 16-20. Burns.... :) |
| X - Stairmaster Miles: 10.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 8 stairmaster miles after work, chiro and pt. Feeling so much better. |
| X - Stairmaster Miles: 8.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.10 |
|
Fun miles from Matts with Dan and Mike. Decided to test it out today after 5 days off of running. Everything felt great, no pain. Still will be careful though. We'll see how it feels in a couple hours. That's when it was getting really tight before. We missed the weather until i jinxed it with a mile to go. I happily declared to Dan how lucky we had gotten and the temp immediately dropped 10 degrees and the headwind blasted us the rest of the way. Good job big mouth :p. Pm - chiro, pt, strength, and stretch
|
| Kinvara 3 Yellow Miles: 10.10 |
| | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
| Snow day! After a snowy early drive to Lehi, and some great friends that were patient enough to wait an extra 10 minutes for me, we were all off for a long run in the cold. We had a great group with Scott, Matt, Dan, Reed, Spencer, Toni and I. Dan guided us through the various twists and turns. It was a little icy to start but there was no wind. We kept the pace on the easy side and just cruised and talked. We were fortunate to run into Davy Crockett :), he joined us for a bit and it was fun to talk to him. Such an animal. Out for what would be a long for me on a Saturday after running from Utah lake to the Great Salt Lake earlier this week. Wow. It turned out great and still pain free. Reed and Spencer did 10, Dan and I 16, and the rest were in for 20. Thanks again for waiting for me guys, it was so fun. 7:10
|
| Altra Superior Miles: 16.00 |
| | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Chiro, pt, strength, and stretch. Feeling almost back to myself. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.52 | 7.70 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 17.22 |
|
Tempo run at the gym. Easy warmup. 20 minutes @ 9.5. 25 minutes @ 10. 5 minutes @ 10.5. 2 minutes @ 11. Easy cooldown. Felt good to go faster with no pain :). 6:15 avg for the run. PM- Wear test run at runners corner sponsored by Pearl Izumi. Tried out the project emotion shoes on a 6.5 mile run in the cold. It was a fun night :). |
| New Balance MR00 Miles: 10.70 |
| | Comments(6) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Stairmaster miles followed by a small circuit to strengthen the lower back and some foam rolling. |
| X - Stairmaster Miles: 6.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.10 |
| 5am crew run minus Scott, Matt, and Dan. Had a low energy bonk today but pushed through and got it done. 7:05 |
| Kinvara 3 Yellow Miles: 10.10 |
| | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.26 | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.26 |
| Easy warmup, 10 minutes @ 9mph, 15 minutes @ 9.5, 20 minutes @ 10, 6 minutes @ 10.5, easy short cooldown. Felt much better than yesterday and strong throughout. The chiro session last night was great. I was going to push it a few more miles but decided to shut it down while I was still feeling good. Almost there. 6:18 |
| New Balance MR00 Miles: 9.26 |
| | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.10 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.10 |
|
Great run up past vivian park and back with a good crew this morning. Scott, Toni, Dan, Bill, double Steve, and I met at the Orem soccer park and started up the canyon in the rain. We got to bridal veil when the trail became icy and not runnable so we crossed the bridge and ran on the old road to the highway, and then on the highway and up south fork to make it 8. Cruised it on the way back and got a nice 4 mile sub 6 push. The rain stopped at the halfway point and we were treated to an absolutely beautiful morning. Scott and I finished up with 2 easy cooldown miles in the grass at the soccer park to make it 18 for the day. So thankful to be feeling back to my old self. I love runs like this. 6:56
Scott I saluted you with my Dunford I picked up on the ride home :).
|
| Kinvara 3 Yellow Miles: 18.10 |
| | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 5.50 |
| Chiro and PT followed by strength and core training. Had a great workout and then went for a short run. I ran easy for 3.5 miles and then decided to run a fast mile to see if I remember how. It came out at 5:12. Felt controlled and not all out but it was a bit of a shock to the system. Ran an easy cool down mile and called it a day. |
| New Balance MR00 Miles: 5.50 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.40 |
|
I was all set to hit some trails up after work. Pulled in the parking lot, changed, got all excited to run off into the sunset.... Whoops... Forgot my headlamp :/. So i went down to the store and made it just in time for the group run. Turned out fun. Still can't find the headlamp..6:54
|
| Altra Superior Miles: 8.40 |
| | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 7:00 |
| New Balance MR00 Miles: 7.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 1.00 | 11.00 |
| Pre turkey miles from Mom's on the Parley's route to the scout camp. It's about 90% dirt. It was sooo cold. I turned around up the canyon when I couldn't feel my hands anymore, it got really cold up there (probably less than 15 degrees). I decided to push it for a 5k after a mile push started off well and it turned out good. New 5k PR on the dirt descent back to Mom's. 16:48 :). 7:15 avg. |
| Altra Superior Miles: 11.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Core, strength, and PT | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.50 |
| With an awesome group. Fritz, Scott, Dan, Toni, Mike, Bill, & Steve. Out on the Murdock, back on the BST. 1350 vert. 7:15 avg |
| Kinvara 3 Yellow Miles: 16.50 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Great core and strength training while watching the games. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.30 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 15.30 |
|
am - 5 miles on my lunch break. Experimenting with ways to get more in once the cycle really ramps up. Not sure if this will work yet but it was fun today. Felt effortless. 6:55 pm - 10 mile evening progressive. 7:15 down to 5:30. Went after chiro, strength, and PT. I have been released and feel really good. The soreness in the right knee is also finally starting to fade. Excited! 6:25
|
| New Balance MR00 Miles: 15.30 |
| | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Altra sponsored the group run tonight with a guest. Had a fun night with Runners World shoe and gear editor Jeff Dengate. Running, good conversation and pizza make for some good times. Always good to see Golden, Jeremy, Brian, and Seth too. 7:00, 4 slices |
| Altra Superior Miles: 6.00 |
| | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Circuit training followed by 3 hard stairmaster miles. Then cruised 7 on the treadmill at steady easy pace. HR stayed at 130-132. Easy and fun. 6:50 |
| New Balance MR00 Miles: 7.00 | X - Stairmaster Miles: 3.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.27 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.27 |
| Such a great morning for a canyon run with the group (Scott, Matt, Dan, Reed, and Mike). Bright moon, and good conversation made for a perfect morning. 6:50 |
| Kinvara 3 Yellow Miles: 10.27 |
| | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Woke up late so this is all I had time for today. It's just as well as I probably need to eat my wheaties today in prep for the group run tomorrow :). I threw one fast mile in (5:13) and cruised the rest. Fun to workout a bit with my wife too. Lats, glutes, back, abs. 6:45 | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 184.66 | 31.70 | 23.75 | 2.00 | 242.11 |
|
| Kinvara 3 Yellow Miles: 85.18 | Altra Superior Miles: 51.65 | X - Stairmaster Miles: 36.00 | New Balance MR00 Miles: 54.76 |
|
|
|
| Debt Reduction Calculator |
|
New Kids on the Blog
(need a welcome):
Lone Faithfuls
(need a comment):
|