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Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jul 23, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

5k 16:16 / 10k 33:12 / half marathon 1:12:28/ marathon 2:32:59/ 100 miles: 34 hours, nine minutes (Wasatch 100).

Short-Term Running Goals:

Compress six months of marathon training into six weeks.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay curious.

Personal:

I'm an attorney in Salt Lake City. Married to Heather. We have two little boys.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Wed, Aug 29, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
11.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	11.00

AM: Golf Course Loop via This is the Place. Great morning for a run. It's taking longer for it to get light out now, which I like. Well, I like it until January anyway.

I'm looking forward to gearing up for St. George. Since I was planning on running NY until yesterday (which would have given me another month of training), I feel like I don't have a whole lot of time to prepare. But I think I'm pretty close to where I was at last year and with a few tweaks I hope I can run a little faster than last year. Beginning this week last year I ran four consecutive 80+ miles weeks before St. George and it's going to take that kind of work and more to perform well this year. That's not much compared to some of you maniacs, but it's plenty for me. I am beyond busy and it will be even tougher to get in the miles this year, but I'm going to give it a try. If it's just not coming together for some reason, I can go back to the NY plan, but I'm not going to think about that. I'm just going to try to stay focused on St. George for the next 37 days.

Comments

From Dave Holt on Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:50:40

How come no NY?

From Chad on Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:37:14

Dave, St. George was my plan but when I didn't get into the lottery there I did get into the NY lottery so planned for that. The bottom line is that STGM was my first choice and I want to try and run a decent time. NY is slower and I don't know how many more PR attempts I can manage. It would certainly be fun to do (especially with the Oly trials the day before) but it's also on the other coast and is not completely convenient at the moment. As I said, I'm not ruling it out and will need to reach some benchmarks, but St. George is my first choice.

From James on Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 13:14:19

Chad,

I missed the whole how you ended up getting into St. George thing, what happened?

From Chad on Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 15:03:41

James, I basically guaranteed them that I would run sub-2:09 and they were very gracious to let me in.:)

Actually, I just followed up on my prior emails and told them I really wanted to run. They looked kindly enough on last year's performance to let me in. I wish they would have reached this decision a few months ago, but better late than never.

From ashman on Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 19:26:51

Chad, Good luck with St George. Still, New York would have been fun too.

From Jed on Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 17:22:06

Congrats on getting into St. George! Best of luck wrapping your stepped-up preparations into your busy schedule. Wish I could be there to have you pass me at mile 24 again.

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