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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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Sun, Jan 20, 2019
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My lungs are fighting me on the whole getting back into shape thing. Not sure what's up with that. My body looks in shape, but the fitness isn't there. 2 miles at 6:30 pace, I want to run a marathon at just under 6:30 pace but I'll have to put in a lot of work to get there. February I'm going to be running a few times a week for 2-5 miles and then I'll see how my body is responding going into march.

Comments
From Jason D on Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 18:47:54 from 73.144.88.57

The thing about marathon pace is that as you get faster your easy pace doesn’t necessarily get faster. Any time I’ve run 6:30 pace or faster for a marathon my easy pace was rarely faster than 8’ per mile. Sometimes as slow as 10’ per mile for recovery runs. Folks who run easy runs close to marathon pace tend to get injured or blow up in the marathon.

The other thing is effort versus pace. You’re better off running at marathon effort (this is something you learn to sense) and as you get fitter you work closer to goal pace.

Just my unsolicited advice. Good luck with training.

From Blake Bennion on Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 19:08:47 from 207.50.150.73

Good advice. Probably a better way for going about it than I've planning, my college team just had us build up from 5 mins a day to 10 miles per day at 6:30 pace, and we never did miles slower than that. So I was just planning on doing that again. But I did get injured doing that, and my high school training seemed to work a lot better for me. And it was more enjoyable.

The other thing is with my asthma sometimes 6:30 is easy and nice, and days like today I feel like I'm dying. Its been bad because it's winter and I don't have medication for it. I should probably switch between easy days and marathon pace days.

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