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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

Sub 1:20 half marathon

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: 16.00 Month: 36.00 Year: 1001.30
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
30.100.000.000.0030.10
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.200.000.000.001.20

Walked to the track and started running but called back home to help with an angry baby pretty quick.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

Warmed up 2 miles and then ran 5x1000m and ended with a quick 400m. My splits were perfect but I took a little extra rest time towards the end of the workout. The splits were 3:26, 3:24, 3:24, 3:25, 3:25, 67.

If I could get my breathing figured out this pace would feel really good, so I probably just need to take my asthma medicines regularly and do more breathing exercises. The last 1000m actually felt the best so that's a good sign. The 400m felt pretty hard but really smooth, my goal was under 68 so that was perfect.

I noticed when I was running the 1000ms that the pace felt great outside of when I needed to take deep breaths, and then when I had to take those deep breaths my form got interrupted and it threw off my rhythm. Good I have something to learn how to fix.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

First 2.25 were really slow trying to keep my heart rate at in my garmins easy zone, so they were like 8:30/8:40. Then I ran 10x10 shuttle run. After that I ran 4 miles at goal marathon page and cooled down a bit. Felt a little sore today.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.400.000.000.005.40

Warmed up a couple miles and then did 400m in 67, 300m in 45, 200m in 28.2, 100m in 13.5, 400m in just under 64. I was going to do 2nd repeats of the 300 200 and 100m but I ran out of time. It was 85 and humid and I was trying to get full recovery between each rep so that was tough. Cooled down back home.

My goals were 65-67 for the 400s, sub 45 for 300m, 28 for 200m and 14 for 100m. So it went pretty well. Also did a couple 10x10m shuttle runs and a couple sprint starts yesterday during a walk. Probably good I ran out of time because I was a little sore before todays workout and especially after that last 400m was getting pretty tired. My form probably would have deteriorated on any additional reps.

8.5-12 easy tomorrow morning.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.500.000.000.008.50

Ugh heat and humidity got to me today. I got out way too late and it was mid 80s and quite humid the whole run. I also stopped and mowed for 20 mins after the first 5.2 miles. I stopped in the shade a few times during the run to cool off. Not exactly the easy long run I had planned.

Tomorrow I'll just a short recovery run, I was going to try to do 6-10 but I think I should adjust to either a day off or shorter recovery run. I'll see how I feel though.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
30.100.000.000.0030.10
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