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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
32.700.000.000.0032.70
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles easy with 6x200m at mile pace. Felt pretty good. Been a good weekend, even though the Bengals lost again.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.100.000.000.006.10

Easy run with a couple strides. Felt great today.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.250.000.000.004.25

Mile warm up and then 8x400m with 60-90 seconds rest. At first I started with 60 seconds rest and quickly went to 80 seconds rest, 90 for the last two. Got out really slow on the first one and then overcorrected a bit but stayed strong throughout the reps.

I ran 76, 70, 70/71, 73, 71, 72, 71/72, 70. Reps 3 and 7 the lap function lagged, they said 71 and 72 but might have been a second or two faster. Either way I averaged under 72, and my goal was to average under 72.5. I'm not sure if I'll try to do a mile time trial before the spartan race, would need to be next week if I do it before. Sub 4:50 seems attainable.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.250.000.000.004.25

Easy run, I'm thinking of doing 3x2 miles at just under 6 minute average tomorrow. Sunday will be an easy run and then Monday will be 12xcircuit workout again. Then my last big workout before the spartan race will be next weekend.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.100.000.000.0010.10

3x2 mile sub 12. Reps were 11:45, 11:56, 12:01.

Happy with this workout. After the 2nd rep I didn't feel like I'd be able to stay on pace for the last one so I just made a goal of keeping sub 6 for the first mile. I came through at 5:59 and then started to fade a bit, the first half of the 2nd mile was 3:10 and I drained but feeling strong enough to make a push. I sped back up to 6:00 pace for the 3rd lap and then finished with a 78.

Cooled down back home. Good workout!

Scary thought of the day: Whitney is already 3% of the way to turning 18 and going off to college... life is short.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
32.700.000.000.0032.70
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