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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
53.150.000.000.0053.15
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.700.000.000.0011.70

Didn't mean to go quite this far today with a track workout tomorrow but got lost in the canal roads. Felt good!

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

2 mile warm up and then 5x800, 300 with a minute after the 800m and 3 minutes after the 300m.

Splits were 2:29, 51, 2:29, 54, 2:30, 54, 2:33, 57, 2:36, 52.

Overall a pretty awesome workout. 300ms didn't go great besides the first and last reps and I fell off a bit on the last two 800ms. But I fought through the pain pretty well and averaged 2:31 and 53.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.250.000.000.006.25

Easy run, 4.4 were stroller miles.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.100.000.000.009.10

Workout with Jake. 3x 4 minutes, 2 minutes with a minute jog between each. Paces were 5:57, 5:45, 5:58, 5:58, 5:55, 5:45. Then did 4x200m in 31, 33, 31, 30.

Legs were sore and the canal road we did the first part of the workout on was hilly and had some gates on it. Our goal was just to stay under 6:00 for the workout, though it was harder to do than it should be.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

Easy run primarily on the grass. Hoping it helps my legs recover for tomorrow.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.100.000.000.0013.10

Very windy cold run with Jake, too fast and too many hills. I need a hot bath and an easy run tomorrow. We're doing a mile time trial this coming Friday, ideally I can go mid to low 4:40s.

I'm thinking 4-8 easy tomorrow, workout Monday for 8-9, Tuesday rest, Wednesday 6-8 easy, Thursday 4-5 easy, Friday race and 7-8.

Already hit the highest month of mileage I've had since 2017, only 30 more miles to reach 200 for the first time since then. Feels good to finally be back.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
53.150.000.000.0053.15
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