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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
48.900.000.000.000.0048.90
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.100.000.000.000.0010.10

I am shooting for more than 45 miles this week -- maybe even 50 miles if I get super ambitious.  To take a 1/5 chunk out of that goal, I ran 10 miles this morning. I have been trying to mix it up with a new route and today's run was a bit of an experiment. It turned out almost exactly 10 miles which shows how precisely calibrated my internal sense of distance must be. Or whatever.  This route goes through the U, over to Guardsman, over toward Foothill Village and then crosses Foothill, heads up to the golf course, past the zoo and then returns home via This is the Place, Fort Douglas and Federal Heights. Plenty of climbing overall, but that's a benefit. The weak link is Foothill Blvd, which is far too busy of a street and requires a wait for a traffic light. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

Black Sheep Workout. This was, by far, the most sisyphyean workout I have ever done. After our warmup along Wasatch Blvd, our small group (5) did 1 minute intervals climbing up toward Devonshire.  The catch is that after running hard a minute up, we turn around and recovered a minute down -- essentially backtracking against progress we had made on the way up. And then repeating, repeating, repeating so that we were inching our way up these hills.  John S. described as a way to "savor the hills."  That is true, the same hills just kept on giving, and giving, and giving. I was spent by the time we reached the top. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

U/Avenues loop.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Three miles on our new treadmill that felt like five miles. The calibration seems all wrong, 8:30 pace felt like 7:00 pace. 7:30 pace felt like 6:15 pace. Anyway, I don't know if I will use it much but it is a good option to have in the house.

 After the treadmill romp I went skiing at Snowbird with my buddy Dave. There was plenty of powder if you were willing to hike a little bit for it.
 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.100.000.000.000.0010.10

A trip on the new loop, out to Bonneville GC  and the mouth of Emigration Canyon.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.700.000.000.000.0010.70

Run through the snow with a few friends.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
48.900.000.000.000.0048.90
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