| Location: 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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| No running. I brought my bike to work and commuted home, just about nine miles. I took a route up through the Avenues and the U. On my way through the alley in Federal Heights, I was chased by an eager young dog, eager to press his teeth into some biker flesh. I got to test the sprinting capabilities of my new bike and managed to get away. If I were running, my escape may not have been as successful.
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| Wow, what a commute to work. I drove my TR6 to Bailey's this morning for the annual inspection/emission test. I managed to squeeze my bike into the passenger seat (after taking the top down, of course) so I could ride to work from Bailey's shop in Murray. After dropping off the car, I headed west with the plan to connect with the Jordan River Parkway at 4500 South, for a nice, easy northerly ride into downtown. Not so! After about 1/3 of a mile on the trail, I hit a section where the river had flooded over the trail extensively, leaving absolutely no way to get around (without wading through waist deep Jordan River water). So I turned back. I made my way further west to 1300 West and took that north to about 3300 south where I was able to get back on the Parkway trail. Smooth sailing for a while, until I got to about 2100 South where the trail passes beneath an overpass. The river had flooded there too, leaving only the large boulders that run along the edge of the trail exposed. So I had to portage my bike over these boulders, in bike shoes. After this I was back on the trail, and continued north until 900 South, where I got off the trail at Jordan Park and headed up to 900 West to connect to 900 South. From there, it was a glimpse of Salt Lake's industrial side as I made my way into town. It took me 52 minutes to cover the 12 or so miles, an ode to the various obstacles. But it was a nice little adventure -- good to have this kind of thing every once in a while to remind one that you're alive and that the routine doesn't have to be routine. | | Add Comment |
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I rode the bike from my house up to the top of Little Mountain (at the top of Emigration Canyon) and back home, 29 miles round trip. It was a nice ride -- tons of bikes out.
Later that night I tweaked my foot again while giving a piggy back ride to a friend's 6 year old girl. I was running around, not thinking about the foot, and then suddenly -- ouch@!! I'm pretty convinced its a stress fracture now.
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| out and back ride, 13 miles, plus a flat tire. | | Add Comment |
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| Big Cottonwood loop, 17 miles, in one hour. | | Add Comment |
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No running, no biking. I did make a trip to see the doctor about my foot. She (Dr. Cooper) agreed that I had chronic plantar fasciitis, but that didn't alone explain the pain on the outside of my foot, which is on or very near the bone. My concern is it may be a stress fracture and she couldn't rule that out. She took an x ray, didn't see any sign of a SF, but it sometimes doesn't show up in an x-ray. She offered three alternatives: 1) get a cortisone shot for the PF; 2) get an MRI on the foot to see what's going on (at a cost of ~$1,000); or 3) wear a walking boot for two weeks and see if that calms everything down, then re-evaluate whether to do the shot. I chose option 3, so I'm now wearing a big black walking boot. It sort of looks like something out of Star Wars. My boy Jack thinks it looks like Batman's boot. I will say this; for as ridiculous as it looks, my heel feels better in this thing than it has in at least two months. Fortunately, I have the green light to swim and bike, but need to wear the boot pretty much all other times.
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| No running. I took the bike out for a spin, riding the Old Mill loop, 18 miles. | | Add Comment |
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| No running. | | Add Comment |
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| No running. Supported my wife Heather at the Bear Lake Half Marathon, where she finished as fourth woman overall! Go Heather! | | Add Comment |
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| No running. I did a 21 mile bike ride on the East Shore of Bear Lake with my buddy Dave. | | Add Comment |
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| No running! Stomach flu bug came on Sunday night and kept me completely bedridden literally all day and all night on Monday. I must have slept 15 hours. Felt better sometime around 2am on Tuesday.
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No running. Since I had been ill, I limited my riding ambitions and I took a short bike ride from Garden City, UT to Fish Haven, ID -- about 21 miles round trip. Great day for a ride, too bad the shoulder on the road isn't wider. It's sort of a scary thing trying to stay right of that white line. Most motorists are pretty good though. I just also realized I'm into my ninth week of "no running" other than a couple of miscellaneous miles. I wish my foot felt better given so much time off. I'm still in the walking boot for another week at least.
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| No running, no biking, no nuthin! | | Add Comment |
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| I rode 12.2 miles on the bike, not big miles, but I did do some tough climbs, including from Foothill Blvd up to the very top of 21st South, and on north to the H Rock trail beyond Carrigan Canyon. I did take a couple of breathers on the way up, but it was nice to feel like my body was working hard.
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| No running. I rode the bike up to the top of City Creek Canyon at lunch -- nice ride, about 17 miles round trip. | | Add Comment |
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I guess I could fill in the "cross training miles" field to have some feeling of logging miles. I rode the bike on the Old Mill loop, but added a four mile out and back trip up Millcreek Canyon, just enough to make my lungs hurt on the first big climb in the canyon. 22 miles total. I realized that "cross training miles" still put me up on the mileage board, so I'll stick to not entering anything into the mileage fields.
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No running. Old Mill loop on the bike. 48 degrees feels a lot different on the bike than running. I've got gloves, headband, windbreaker, etc. Running I would be in a t shirt, shorts. 18.40 miles
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No running. Lunch time ride up to the top of City Creek canyon and back, 17 miles.
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| No running. I finally figured out how to add 1.5 miles to the Old Mill loop to make it an even 20 miles. It added some climbing, but nothing wrong with that. | | Comments(3) |
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| No running (or biking). I had an appointment with Dr. Cooper to look at my foot again. The walking boot had relieved the pain enough that I can go "boot free" for now. I'm supposed to watch it for a week just walking around. I can start to get back to putting some stress on it when I'm pain free for a week, but running will be in very small doses. I think I'm still a few weeks away from doing anything that resembles actual running. | | Add Comment |
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| No running. I only had time for a short ride on the bike, 12 miles. | | Add Comment |
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| No running. 20 miles on the Old Mill loop on the bike. | | Add Comment |
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| No running. 19 miles on the bike, from Wastch Blvd to the top of Millcreek Canyon. Well, almost to the top because the snow got in the way a few hundred meters below the Upper Big Water trailhead. | | Add Comment |
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| No running. 18.4 miles on the bike: out and back to This is the Place, where I tooled around on the hills for a minute, taking in some of my old running stomping grounds. | | Comments(2) |
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| No running. I mixed it up and went to Fairmont Aquatic center and swam a mile. | | Add Comment |
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