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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 ✅

Fast as I can go at Big Bear Marathon

Sub 34:00 at Peach Days 10k

2000 miles during 2025

Sub 2:30 and 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: 0.00 Year: 1086.90
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
33.750.000.000.0033.75
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

Easy stroller run over to the park with Whitney. Tomorrow should be about a 10-12 mile day doing 12x400 and a short tempo and then I think the rest of the week will be 4-7 mile easy runs with a easy pre race workout on Thursday. Maybe I'll take Wednesday off.

I think my IT band is pretty much healed, I haven't felt it in a full week now and have done some pretty intense workouts. I think I'll try and hit 50 miles again this week and then in July my weekly format is going to be

Sunday- 8-10

Monday- 10-12

Tuesday- 8-10

Wednesday- 4-7

Thursday- 10-12

Friday- rest-4

Saturday- Long run starting at 15 and building to 22 by August

So that will get me 55-75, obviously I'll start at the lighter end of that. I'm starting the long run build a little late for a marathon in September but I think my base is sufficient. I still haven't signed up for the Huntsville marathon quite yet because I want to get some longer long runs in and get a feel for like a 20 miler first.

I'm trying to decide between running the USA trail half marathon championships in Moab or the big bear marathon for my final and biggest race of 2025.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.750.000.000.009.75

1.5 warm up with Garry and Jake

12x400 @75 with 80 seconds rest. We alternated leading this one, it's nice having a 3 person squad for these. Gonna be sad when Garry leaves for his mission. We also averaged 73 instead of 75.

3ish miles with the team

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

With the Weber team. Sped up a bit the last mile to make it home in time. Considered running to the park with Whitney to get 7 today but I'm a little tired from not getting enough sleep lately and decided between that and the big face for June being Saturday, taking it easy doesn't hurt. I've run every day for 11 days in a row now so I might take tomorrow off, or I might do an easy 4.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.500.000.000.004.50

Easy day with a few 200s

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.000.000.002.00

Pre race shakeout

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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
33.750.000.000.0033.75
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