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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: 17.40 Month: 99.45 Year: 250.60
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AM- about a half mile at red rock

PM- Warmed up a half mile and started a mile repeat workout. Plan was to meet Becca over at walmart/planet fitness. I discovered the sidewalk doesn't connect all the way.

Workout went pretty bad. First mile was a struggle to get 5:40 but I managed it. Then I jogged half a mile for recovery. 2nd mile repeat was really tough. I ended up witb something like 5:55. Then I ran out of sidewalk and kinda gave up on doing a 3rd repeat. My body was feeling like crap today. But I got very little sleep and was in the car 5 hours today, and I probably didn't warm up enough- so I also picked a bad day for a hard workout. I'm kind of feeling like just doing an easy run tomorrow and then coming back and trying to redeem myself tuesday, but that might be a lot of days running in a row for my achilles. I'll take it one day at a time. Today disheartened me in terms of running a 17:30 in Seattle in 2 weeks. But I'm not entirely ready to back off of it just yet. I want to see if I don't have a better workout later this week before lowering my goal. Kind of in limbo with workout goals right now. I don't have any super exciting goals besides keep running without hurting my achilles and just lifting in general. The Spartan race in Colorado Springs seems like a good goal for me to focus on.

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