| Location: Provo,UT,USA Member Since: Mar 01, 2004 Gender: Male Goal Type: World Class Running Accomplishments: PRs 14:47 5 K (Portland Twilight), 1:06:33 (Utah Valley Half Marathon (aided)).
As a 14 year old in 2013: 4:31.58 1500. 9:35:32 3000m (Utah Youth boys state record). 17:01 5K (Draper Days). 1:15:21 half (Utah Valley (aided)).
Short-Term Running Goals: Get the marathon under 2:20. Long-Term Running Goals: Make it to the Olympics in the marathon. Keep training throughout my life. Personal: I have five brothers and five sisters,
all younger. I'm currently a PhD Student in the CSEM (computational science) program at UT Austin. Married, no kids (yet). I've been dealing with some issues in running the last few years, and am trying to get back into top shape. Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Did a canyon workout today. The goal was to run the first two miles of our usual three mile tempo course in 10:40, then run the last mile under 5:00. I'd tried this workout multiple times before and had never managed to hit the last mile under 5. Today was different. I opened in 5:12, then did 5:20. With a mile to go I stepped on the gas. To avoid psyching myself out. I didn't look at my split with three quarters to go. I started hurting the minute I stepped up the pace. With a half mile to go, I was 13:00 -- i'd run 2:28 from 2 to 2.5. I feared a major crash at that point, but knew that a sub-5:00 was in the cards, so I pressed onwards. I ran the last half in 2:25, 4:53 last mile, 15:25 total time. The last mile hurt like nobody's business, but I'm happy to finally have reached my goal in this workout.
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| | Thirteen total today. Did a canyon workout with My Dad and Chad. First we did 3 hard up our favorite tempo course. I got 17:40. After jogging for a bit, we turned around and ran 3 hard down the course. I felt like stopping after the first quarter mile. There was a headwind going down the canyon, but the headwind was by no means the only cause of my pain I had already run 7.5 miles with three hard. Currently, mIleage hurts me more than speed. This is related to the fact that my cardio is lagging behind my leg power and that I have a glycogen (however you spell that) storage problem. And all of those things are part of being 14.
In any case, I ran the first mile in 5:14, then did the next half in 2:41. With 2000 to go, I delovped a sideache -- a symptom of low glycogen according to my Dad. The sideache forced me to stop for a few seconds which made me reach 2 miles in 10:40. Then I tied to push in the last mile, was having some mental issues, and did the first half in 2:59. The mental issues made me lose it over the next quarter. To top it off, the sideache came back, costing me another few seconds. With 400 to go I mentally regrouped and kicked. Managed to get 16:01 for the 3 downhill, 5:21 last mile.
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