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Member Since:

Jun 01, 2013

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

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

2015 Alta Track Athlete of the Year

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy and and build mileage

Get faster

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running

Run the Boston Marathon at least once

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: 37.45 Month: 97.45 Year: 1225.70
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
92.150.000.000.0092.15
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.250.000.000.006.25

Easy run with 2 200m in 41 seconds. Felt good, legs seemed a little heavy though.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

3rd in my local 5k, not much faster than last year though. I was stuck in no man's land pretty much the whole race, pace didn't feel easy but maybe could have run faster-, especially if I didn't have all those short steep hills in my legs from the first 1.5 miles.

Cooled down with some cool guys who finished 2nd and 4th, learned about some other races to run this summer- which is good because I need to get into a fast race and run a better time. Even like a 17:30 would be refreshing at this point haha. On the other hand I ran 19:05 today and the guy who took 4th in like 19:40 just graduated high school and has run 16:40 for 5k on the track and 4:42 for 1600m this spring. The guys who took 1st and 2nd in like 17:30 are a 1:10 half marathoner and a college runner... so I'm not doing terribly.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

Easy run, then walked with Whitney and Becca at the track. While Whitney was exploring she somehow removed her diaper and pulled it out the leg of her outfit - so I ran home and back (about 1.5 miles total) to grab a diaper at 5:40ish pace.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

4 miles while Becca went to Starbucks and then another 5 at Battelle Darby.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.250.000.000.004.25

Woke up very sore today, so I did a recovery day with a short run and 4 strides. I felt pretty good on the run and maybe went a little fast on the strides.

Gonna be tough to get in 40 miles this week but I'll at least get 30.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.400.000.000.004.40

Crappy air quality

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.250.000.000.007.25

Warmed up and did 6x800m at 5k pace with a 400m at mile pace at the end, 2 mins between each rep. Splits were 2:44, 2:41, 2:43, 2:39, 2:44, 2:39, 70. Felt pretty good today.

I'll try this workout again with 8 800m reps in a couple weeks. I think I could have made it to 8 reps today but I didn't want to push too hard- and I wanted to get some faster turnover. I also did a couple strides on the way home.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.500.000.000.007.50

Hot and humid run on a dirt road next to the Illinois river. Always surprises me how hilly Illinois is. I'll try and get out earlier tomorrow.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

Hot run along the Illinois river.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

Easy run with a couple strides. Becca got a new job in Utah so we're moving back next month, pretty exciting! Lots to do to get ready to sell the house and move our stuff over there in the next 5/6 weeks, hopefully I can keep running regularly.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

Next two weeks are going to be busy, going to try and list our house by next weekend.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

Easy run with 8x200m at mile pace, sped up to close to a sprint on the last one.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.500.000.000.006.50

Easy run, I focused on trying to have faster turnover- that's a big area for me to improve.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

Felt great tonight, been busy getting the house ready for pictures Monday. I think this next week I'll be able to run more.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

Exhausted

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
92.150.000.000.0092.15
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