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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
45.650.000.000.0045.65
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.250.000.000.006.25

Typical Sunday route. Felt pretty good, quads are somehow still a little sore from last weeks half marathon. I need to start getting getting higher mileage and doing a better job with core and yoga, also should include a couple cross training sessions each week.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.200.000.000.008.20

Am- Phone is dying out and didn't charge overnight so I slept in to 7 and missed most of my run with Jake. Got the last 3.8.

Pm- 4.4 circling the track while cheering on the team, plus some hill sprints chasing Whitney.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.300.000.000.006.30

Warmed up a little over a mile and ran the founders day course hard with the team. Pretty much race effort outside of cheering on the kids, I ran 16:38 and I think maybe I could have run 16:20-16:25 if I'd raced all out. So I'm a out 30 seconds slower than I was in June, which sucks a little because in June I'd been taking it easy for like a month due to my it band acting up. But I suppose that what I get for 3 months of averaging 35 mpw or the equivalent.

Still, I'm in far better shape than I was in this time last year. Not a bad spot to be at and I know my body will respond quickly to the mileage increase I'm about to do.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.700.000.000.004.70

Warmed up 2.25 or so and then did 6 strides, a mile tempo in 5:30, 1000m in 3:13, 600 in about 1:55. Felt pretty good but ran out of time, had to get home early.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.500.000.000.007.50

11 games of tennis with my dad

Then ran while my dad biked up to the cottonwood heights Thanksgiving course, did most of the course, finished up back home. Got some faster surges in on the downhills.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.700.000.000.0012.70

Ran up wheeler canyon with Jake and Andrew. Very wet and muddy. Took 2 hours, was a fun time though!

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
45.650.000.000.0045.65
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