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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: 0.00 Month: 46.15 Year: 1870.10
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
46.150.000.000.0046.15
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.250.000.000.006.25

Easy miles in the cold. Lungs felt rough afterwards. Can't wait for the sauna to arrive.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

Running in the snow sucks

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.200.000.000.0011.20

AM- 6.8 stroller miles with Jake. I wonder if and when my lungs will adjust to the cold. Maybe part of it was spending a week at sea level too.

PM- 4.4 easy miles. Legs could use another hot bath tonight.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.500.000.000.006.50

Warmed up a couple miles and then 25 minutes of 130 meter strides, 70 meter jogs. Started with Xs on the field but the snow sucked to run on.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

Didn't think I'd have time to get this in. It's exactly mile up to the end of the road and back next to my house. Just did that 4x and it was glorious.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.200.000.000.0014.20

With Jake and Kolten. Ate a pumpkin muffin before and two rice krispies during. Felt amazing at 10 miles, legs were feeling it a bit by the end. To be fair, from my understanding I should be having like 3x that many carbs per hour. I think I should be starting to be regularly over 50 miles per week again now. I got over 50 the last two weeks and 45 this week as somewhat of a down week. I think I'll try to do 2-3 weeks at 50-60 followed by a week at 40-50 this winter.

My ideal week by like February is going to be

Sunday- 10

Monday- 8 mile (workout)

Tuesday- rest

Wednesday- 12 mile (4 stroller, 8 easy)

Thursday- 8 mile (workout)

Friday- 4-8 easy

Saturday- 13-22

So total mileage will be 55-68 by the end of winter. And then at some point in the spring I'll just add an extra stroller run Mondays or Thursdays and I'll be at 60-75 per week. That plus sauna core and maybe some rowing is about the highest volume I think I'll be able to handle before Des news. I also need to start doing my long runs faster.

Also ran a mile later on to break in new gel nimbus.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
46.150.000.000.0046.15
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