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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

Sub 1:20 half marathon

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: 7.00 Month: 51.90 Year: 326.80
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
35.600.000.000.0035.60
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

Nice run on the cross country course behind the track. Felt good today, I'm excited to go back and run more soon!

Good week of exercise

Monday- run and chest day

Tuesday- run

Wednesday- leg day

Thursday- raquetball

Friday- run and arms and back day

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

Warmed up 2 miles on the track and then did 2 miles repeats. Originally I was thinking of doing 3 mile repeats at like 5:45-5:50. The first one ended up being 5:29 according to my garmin, but I think low 5:30s is more accurate. I was pleasently surprised by that, especially because for some reason I'd mistakenly thought I was on pace for low 5:40 until I finished.

I took a 5 minute run/walk break before running another in about 5:35. I was pretty tired after that one and I was happy with the results up to that point so I just ran 2 400s in 75 and 71. Ran a bit under a mile to cool down up to 6 miles. Finished by walkint some more. Pretty nice workout!

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.500.000.000.002.50

Had time for just a quick run today, felt good though!

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.250.000.000.003.25

Got to the track late, been a busy couple weeks. I ran the cross country course in the dark for 2.5 miles and then I a bit on the track. My foot was bothering me so I called it early and walked another lap. It's strange, it feels like the skin on my foot is being stretched when I run. Kind os similar to running on a thorn. It's not very painful yet but I wanted to be careful.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.600.000.000.004.60

Ran to the track and did a workout. My head was aching and overall I wasn't feeling great so I went home a bit early. I get headaches/head pressure whenever I run hard, but I had always assumed it was part of my asthma, but I decided to research it.

Apparently it's actually related to my nasal polyps and deviated septum, the nasal polyps are caused by asthma though so.. I was partially right. I've also had chronic sinusitis since I was a child and researching all this stuff... it seems like I will feel a lot better once I get surgery at the end of the year.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

Played basketball for an hour and then went for a run. I felt drained, been a long week.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.250.000.000.004.25

Beautiful sunset run after watching my Bengals destroy the Steelers. All is right in the universe.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

Nice run on the cross country course. Foot felt a little odd towards the end, I think I need new insoles.

Also first time I've reached 500 miles in a year since 2017... back when I was on the SUU track/xc team. That's kind of sad. 2018 was apparently just 430 but I may have missed entries for a while when I was still on the team, 2019 was 260 (somehow), 2020 was 430.

Weird to think about how little I've run the past 3 years, I guess I've averaged 5-10 miles per week. Running volume is a large part of what makes a year a good one- so I need to get back on it. Even with my achilles injury there's no reason I shouldn't be able to do 15-20 miles a week and get around 1000 miles per year. 2021 should end at around 700-800 miles total, next year I want to get to 1000. Lots of big things coming next year.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
35.600.000.000.0035.60
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