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December 28, 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: 183.55 Year: 2007.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.400.000.000.0011.40

Warmed up 3.5

Paced Josh for his 5k on the track, we came through 2 miles right on pace at 11:15 but he started falling off the last mile. I slowed a little to try and help him not drop off quite as much, ended up with splits of 5:37, 5:38, 5:45. 5k mile tempo in 17:38. According to Garmin my heart rate settled in at about 164-168 for the last 1.5 miles of this, and according to what I've read in the Internet that corresponds to about half marathon pace. So right now on the track I could probably run about 73/74. Not bad at all, I think sub 70 half on the Ogden half course is doable this soring- and if that happens I have a good chance to go sub 2:30 at Des news if I get up to 65-70 mpw and get fueling right.

Cooled down 4.7ish, everyone else finished running when I was at 11.4 and I felt like that was about right for today- makes it more likely I'll go a bit longer tomorrow. We had a big group today, started out with Jake Henry Sammy and Kolten and met up with Josh Joy and Shelby at the track.

Comments
From Rob Murphy on Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 18:32:11 from 74.214.227.113

Wow. Big goals!

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