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Location:

North Salt Lake,UT,

Member Since:

Dec 12, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

1500m - 3:59.9h (2014)

5000m - 14:53.45 (Portland Track Festival 2014)

8k XC - 25:09 (Sundodger 2011)

10k XC - 31:31 (WWU Invite 2011)

HM - 1:10:19 (Houston 2018)

Marathon - 2:28:39 (Houston 2019)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Personal:

Married, working, training. While my wife has nixed all future attempts to grow glorious mustaches, she has been supportive of my crazy running dreams. Life is good.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 25.80 Year: 26.80
Mizuno Ekiden Lifetime Miles: 274.65
Flyknit Streaks Lifetime Miles: 419.25
Flyknit VFs Lifetime Miles: 80.50
Ride 14 Lifetime Miles: 652.85
Ride 15 Lifetime Miles: 275.80
Ride 15 X2 Lifetime Miles: 47.30
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
174.300.007.900.50182.70
Ride 15 Miles: 73.70Ride 14 Miles: 104.00Flyknit Streaks Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.000.000.002.00

2 very easy. I made a dumb choice and cracked some ribs trying to jump from a boat to the dock. Oops. Tested things out today and it hurt but was manageable on this run.

Ride 15 Miles: 2.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

6 very easy (8:20 avg). Things hurt a little bit more today.

Ride 14 Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

4 easy (7:51)

Ride 15 Miles: 4.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

6 in 7:52. Things are getting slightly less painful on the ribs.

Ride 15 Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 in 7:27. Ribs felt slightly sore but not so bad.

Ride 14 Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.200.000.000.004.20

500 S loop, 7:27 avg

Ride 15 Miles: 4.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 in 7:32

Ride 14 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.500.001.400.007.90

8 x 1:00 on/off on the JRT. Looks like I averaged ~5:30 on the "ONs". Still easing back into faster stuff. I'll basically just increase this little by little until I'm doing 15-20 min of work. Ribs are sore but didn't complain too much with the faster pace.

Ride 15 Miles: 7.90
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 in the rain. 7:40 avg. I'm soooorrrrrreee from just the little workout yesterday.

Ride 14 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 on the JRT (7:29 avg)

Ride 15 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

12 steady on the JRT. I didn't get a second workout in this week, so I opted to just cruise a bit quicker on this one. After a warmup mile in 7:39 I opened it up a touch and started rattling off miles in the 6:40-6:50 range. For my current fitness, it was not an easy effort. My HR rose up to about 150 by mile 4 and stayed there for the rest of the run. 

Time to start ratcheting up the volume a little again. I'll shoot for 55-60 over the next couple weeks and then see where things stand. I'm a little concerned about my right knee still. It has felt rock solid for months now, but the last couple runs I sense the same pain lingering in the fringes. I've been a little lax with my PT exercises. I'm scared of it blowing up again.

Ride 14 Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.200.000.000.004.20

500 S loop. 7:23 avg

Ride 15 Miles: 4.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 on the JRT. Feeling pretty fresh and ready for a mileage bump.

Ride 14 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.002.000.008.00

6 x 2:00 on / 1:00 off. Averaged ~5:45 pace. Added 2 x 30s sprints at the end.

The pain in my knee is definitely creeping into the background. I plan to keep the volume where it's at and see if it will stabilize. Reach out to the ortho and see if he wants to do another injection. I've been through so much therapy on this thing -- if it needs surgery I'd rather leave no question about it than keep playing the game of backing off every time it gets sore.

Ride 15 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 very easy. 7:51 avg

Ride 14 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.200.000.000.004.20

4 easy. Knee was feeling pretty swole after the injection on Weds, so took a few days off. Felt fine on this easy jog.

Ride 15 Miles: 4.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

Lunch run. 6 easy at 7:20ish.

Ride 14 Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 in 7:36. Still feeling a couple of twinges from the injection, but my knee feels pretty good. Cruise out the rest of the week and maybe try a short fartlek on Friday if it's still feeling good.

Ride 15 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 in 7:44 avg. Cold, wet, and rainy. Almost makes me miss Bellingham.

Ride 14 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 in 7:36

Ride 14 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.002.000.008.00

6 x 2:00 on (1:00 rests) + 2 x 30s sprints. 5:41 avg for the fartlek.

Ride 15 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

12 in 7:06.

Ride 14 Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.200.000.000.004.20

Easy Sunday loop. 7:21 avg.

Ride 15 Miles: 4.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.002.500.5010.00

5 x 3:00 on (1:00 rests) + 4 x 30s sprints.

5:45 avg for fartlek. Dusted off the ol' Streaks for this.

Flyknit Streaks Miles: 5.00Ride 15 Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 in 7:23

Ride 14 Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
174.300.007.900.50182.70
Ride 15 Miles: 73.70Ride 14 Miles: 104.00Flyknit Streaks Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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