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March 19, 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 5k

Win crossover half

Win twisted fork 30k

Fast as I can go at Big Bear Marathon

32 minutes at Des News 10k

2500 miles during 2025

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: 25.20 Month: 151.60 Year: 519.80
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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Long run with Jake. Took Friday off as well and now my tailbone feels 100% better, as does my throat. I think cutting out 2 runs runs totalling 10 miles to preserve my health was the right choice. Now I'm entering a long weekend feeling ready to go and ready for some big miles. Planning to do 10 tomorrow and then whatever workout Jake has on the schedule on Monday.

I ran the fastest mile I've run since I was at suu today by a wide margin. We ran up big rock (was a mistake, very icy) and then around the city for a while and spontaneously decided to do a hard downhill mile. Jake finished maybe 1 second ahead of me but our watches got very different splits for our mile times, his was 4:33 and mine was 4:42. So we ran somewhere between those numbers. I felt great though, pretty sure I could go 20 seconds faster in a race down that street. Was highly enjoyable. We'll find out if I'm sore tomorrow I guess but I feel great, think I could go for another 13 miles now. I've got the Saint George Marathon in my sights for this fall, would like to go sub 2:40. Lots of fun races to focus on before then starting in March though.

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