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August 2009

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Member Since:

Oct 03, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

-Distance running as of 2001 -11 total marathons -Boston Marathon (2006) -10k PR 33:55 -1/2 marathon PR 1:16:57 -Marathon PR (2006 St. George 2:45:09) -5k PR (Don't know, hate the distance)

Short-Term Running Goals:

-Compete in the Utah Half Triathlon!!

Did it, what a great challenge!!

Ramp up my weekly mileage.

PR at the St. George Marathon in 2009.  Didn't make the Lottery.  Doing the Top Of Utah instead.  It's a 4:30 minute tougher race.  I Still hope to PR!!

Long-Term Running Goals:

-Be a life time runner for the love of running.  Mix it up.  Try something new.  Do a full Iron Man. 

Personal:

Married for 11 years!!  I have 3 daughters.  My wife runs marathons as well.  I'm a park ranger.

 

 

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Franctic Lifetime Miles: 170.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
246.7029.5018.000.000.00294.20
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20.000.000.000.000.0020.00

20 miles at 5am.  Glad to be done for the week.  A new weeks high of miles for myself at 86 miles for the week. 

The week started off bad, but I gradually felt better as the workouts went on .  The last couple of days and today especially, I felt great.  I didn't seem to feel the weeks miles and finished strong and fairly fast.

I'm going to scale it back a bit for next week.  I'll be in Hawaii with the misses and I think the body could do with a few less miles while I'm there.  I'll hit it hard when I get back and should be ready to resume the speed and tempo.

 

 

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Last run in Hawaii!!!  I skipped a few runs, but I had a bad case of Hawaii, what can I say.  What a beautiful and wonderful place.  Running at sea level is easy!!!  I ran with the misses all week and took it easy.  I really enjoyed running along the beach and jungle trails.

I should be ready to go next week.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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15  miles this evening.  Just got home from Hawaii. Jet lag, a weeks worth of loose liven, self glutteny at sea level made for a slow, sluggish run.  I made it, nothing to talk about. 

Time to get back in the grove, I don't know if I have enough time to get back what I lost before I have to start my tapper again.  I'll give it a shot.

 

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15 miles at 6:00 am.  A pretty good run.  I haven't felt this good for about a month.  It was nice to see that I've still got some gas in the tank and haven't lost too much speed, with about a month of not doing any.

3 mile warm up followed by speed mile repeats.  First mile at 5:53, nothing too exciting, but it felt easy and I was playing it safe. 2nd speed mile at 5:47, starting to open up a little.  3rd speed mile at 5:36, feeling pretty dang good, very surprised.  4th speed mile at 5:37.

Did a few recover miles and finished the workout with 2 miles at tempo speed, first mile at 6:10 and last mile at 5:34, 2.12 miles for a average speed of 5:49 for the last 2.12.

Very happy with the results.  I'll keep on running and see where I can get in 6 weeks, granted 3 weeks of that is going to be tapper down.  I got back a little of the mojo today anyway.

No pain I thinks the legs are healed. 

15 miles new pair of Vomeros.  I was in St. George and was going to purchase my favorite running shoe, the Nimbus, but when I got to Steve's store it was cleared out, empty.  Does anyone know where he moved it to.  I had to settle for Nike Vomero at Rebel Sports.

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Tempo run this morning.  A pretty good pace.  I'm happy with the results.  20 miler tomorrow I'm not so happy about.

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Long run, 20 miles, just glad to be done. 

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15 easy miles.

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Meeting in SLC.  Didn't really know where to do speed work, so I got up at 4:30 am and went to a gym.  15 miles on a treadmill, 6 of that was speed work.  A pretty good work out.

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Back at home.  15 easy miles on the road at 6:00 am.  A pretty good rash this morning, from using yesterdays sweaty running clothes.  Man did I stink!!

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Tough work out this moring. 15 total miles, 9 of that at tempo speed.  I was pleased with my pace.  Nothing too exciting, but a respectable overall time.  Running tempo out here with these hill can be murder.  It's a little hard to judge my actuall pace when I'm pushing hills.

Glad to be done, looking forward to an easy 10 miler tomorrow.

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10 easy miles this morning.

I'm headed out on the boat to do a little skiing today with the family.

 

 

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A good run. felt smooth and relaxed.

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A good run this morning. I always dread the speed days. Warmed up with 3 miles and then did 1 mile repeats with a slow mile in between.

Mile 1 @ 5:48

Mile 2 @ 5:33

Mile 3 @ 5:30

Mile 4 @ 5:30

Decided to do a two mile tempo with the first being fairly slow to see if I could finish with a new fast mile for the year.

Mile 5 @ 6:28

Mile 6 @ 5:03

Knocked 14 seconds off my fastest mile for the year. A pretty good workout.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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15 easy miles this morning.  No pain from yesterdays speed I 'm glad to say.

 about 12 miles into the run I was daydreaming and looked down to see a rattle snake just a bit bigger then a pencil.  In mid stride I was just able to miss the little guy. 

 I hear the baby rattle snakes are worse then the adult ones.  I was nervus the rest of my run and kept thinking every tig on the road was a snake.  I just glad to be alive to run other run.

 


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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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Good workout today. 10 miles of tempo from the first step. Pushed a really big hill for the first 1 1/2 miles. The first mile is always the toughest for me for some reason, but I pushed the cursed hill anyway.

5 mile cool down.

Some good tempo, glad with the results.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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10 miles.  Felt great.

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20 miles.  Monster week!!  A new record for miles in one week for myself!!  90 miles!!  Very happy.  Didn't know if I was actually going to get there.  Felt great today.  Felt like I could have ran another 20 at the end of the run.

I'll start my tapper for logan next week.  Three weeks of excitement and "Am I running enough, does the ramping down stuff really work".

Went swimming today with the family caught three catfish. 

 

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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12 easy miles.  First day of the ramp down for Logan.

 

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