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Founders Day 5k

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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: 10.00 Month: 56.15 Year: 1880.10
Race: Founders Day 5k (3.107 Miles) 00:15:54, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.500.000.000.009.50

Really fun race today. Course is a bit short at 3.06 but sub 16 feels equally good. Splits were 5:22, 4:59, 5:16. I was running with Wyatt for the first 2 miles and then he dropped me by 12 seconds the last mile. I just couldn't get back into rhythm after the hill up to the high school. Jake has been killing it and broke 15 on this course, Garry and Wyatt were both about 15:40.

Also a kinda crazy stat, I dropped from 166 to 158 between last night and post race. Des news is in 26 days I'm hoping to drop a few more pounds before then.

Jake says his first 5k of Des news is consistently faster than his time on this course. If I can run 15:30 for the first 5k there I should definitely be able to run in the 32 minute range. Sub 32:30 there would be awesome.

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