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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

2023 goals: Spring:

20-30 mpw

Sub 18 5k

Sub 5 mile

Summer

30-40mpw

Sub 4:50 mile

Sub 17:30 5k

Fall

35-45

Sub 17:00 5k

Sub 4:45 mile

Top 3 at Nashville Spartan Super

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running

Run the Boston Marathon at least once

Make a glorious return to spartan racing

Personal:

Married, recently had our first baby. I ran for Alta high school and was trained by Coach Murphy, he is a great coach, one of the best there is. I ran for Southern Utah University for a year or two. I am currently a doctoral student at Bowling Green State University studying industrial organizational psychology.

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Miles:This week: 10.00 Month: 82.65 Year: 421.55
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
25.300.000.001.0026.30
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

A little over an hour of running in the mountains with Tayte, good amount of uphill! And then some striders after that, going to run the 800m time trial on Thursday probably. A lot of rain when I was driving home, one of the heaviest rains in Utah I've seen! But I could also see areas just 10 miles away or so where it wasn't raining so that was really weird, same thing happened at State, weird weather the past few days.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.250.000.001.005.25

Warmed up 2 miles on the lower loop and then did 2x400m at 62 and 4x200 at 29. I ran 60.4, 62.0, 29.2, 29.0, 28.8, 28.8. So it was a good workout. It felt fast, not easy, but when is sub 4:00 mile pace easy? Warm up was a little fast, I really want to break 2:00 on Thursday. When I was a freshman I kept running the mile for a month after track was over to break 5:00, and it finally happened the last day of school. Hopefully I run sub 2:00 this week and then I can start racing the mile for sub 4:25, that way when I go to California the 2nd week of June I can run sub 4:20 at sea level, and just like that I will have an incredibly fast PR! If it doesn't work out like I hope, that fine, I will have had a lot of fun training for it, and I'm proud of my 4:27 at state! But if it does, that will be incredible! I cooled down on the 1.5 mile loop above the school.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.300.000.000.005.30

40 minutes of running with Zach, about 5.3. I felt alright, after an easy day tomorrow I think I will be ready to break 2:00. That will be a very good accomplishment, I've been dreaming of sub 2:00 for years but wasn't close to it until a few weeks ago, now it feels like I have plenty of power and speed to get it done, hopefully by a couple of seconds!

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.750.000.000.002.75

Ran easy 2.75 with the 2015 Alta xc team, also Adam Jensen ran 7:21 in the root beer mile, check it out! I started getting a sore throat last night, worse today by not bad. Had a slight headache after school today. But I'm feeling pretty decent, I think I will be ok for the 800m, if I dont get it, I've got plenty of time. But I think I've got it!

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

No 800m race today, too sick. Ran the warm up and then 30 minutes with the guys, I was gonna do another few miles tonight but my lungs and throat were feeling pretty crappy so I decided to rest today, and get in a good run tomorrow, 9-11 probably.

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Feeling sick, not sure if or how much I will run today. If I'm feeling better tonight, I will try 4-5 miles, hopefully tomorrow I can get in a good run.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
25.300.000.001.0026.30
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