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Member Since:

Jun 01, 2013

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Ran for Alta and SUU on their Cross Country/Track and Field teams

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy and and build mileage 🤕

sub 16:00 Founders Day 5k ✅

Win crossover half ✅

2000 miles during 2025

Top 3 at 2026 Des News Marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running and run some solid PRs

Run the Boston Marathon at least once

Run the Broken Arrow series

Personal:

Married, we have one daughter so far. I ran for Alta high school and was trained by Rob Murphy, he is a great coach, one of the best there is. I also ran for Southern Utah University.

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Miles:This week: 52.40 Month: 98.55 Year: 1922.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.100.000.000.0013.10

Ran with Jake over to the track and then paced Josh for a mile time trial. Then went out to the elk farm and back to the cars. Felt tired by the end. Also tweaked my knee a bit towards the end, iced and took a hot bath and now it's feeling pretty normal but I'm not going to test it out much until tomorrow.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.300.000.000.006.30

A bit under 2 miles warm up then 2x 6 minute tempo, 3x400

First set in nimbus: 5:47 pace tempo, 51 high average on 300s

Second set in endorphin speed: 5:25 pace tempo, 49 average for 300s

Tempos felt nice, 300s felt rough. Shoes made a big difference on the 300s but still felt closer to 800m pace than mile... which it probably is. I'm considering running a mile race this winter if they'll let me run in my endorphin pros. My days of spiking up are over, but I think I run 4:30 something in my super shoes, maybe I'll try for a sub 4:10 1500 in the spring if I can. I'd also like to run a track 5k this spring.

I think I'll spend the next 3-4 months doing 1 marathon workout and 1 mile-5k workout per week and then from April to July just do workouts focusing 10k-marathon pace like the BYU marathoning group seems to do.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

Stroller run to the park and back +5 laps around the park

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

Easy run

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

Warmed up and then ran 2x3 mile tempo. Averaged 5:40 pace for both. Felt good enough that I could have run another mile in under 5:30 at the end of the 2nd rep. Lungs are not responding well to the cold, had some asthma symptoms for the first time in a while. Might have to get back on medication for that.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

Good run today. I ran up to the top of pleasant view and back home and felt great. Would be good to make this my average Sunday run.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
52.400.000.000.0052.40
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