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December 14, 2025

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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: 98.55 Year: 1922.50
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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