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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,United States

Member Since:

Dec 08, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

13.1: 1:09:58 (2018 Des News)

26.2: 2:37:45 (2019 Mesa Phoenix)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy!

 

2019 Running Schedule

Feb - Mesa Phoenix Marathon (AZ): 2:37:45. Lingering flu didn't help, but I still got a PR.

April - Bonneville Shoreline Trail Marathon (UT). Mostly just going to be a training run. Finally got myself into the sub-4 club last year, so I'll just have fun with it this year.

May - Stillwater Half Marathon (MN). Goal race for Spring. Looking for ~1:12.

October- Chicago Marathon (IL). We'll see where I'm at in Fall, but probably will be looking for low 2:30s.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy, make improvements, maximize my potential.

Personal:

I am a bioengineering PhD currently working as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah, where I design and improve neurosurgical approaches for treating movement disorders.


Summer 2018 update: I'm lazy about copying over from Strava, so find me over there for day-to-day runs until I eventually get around to copying everything over here.

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Skechers GoRun 4 Blue - A Bit Too Big, But Free Lifetime Miles: 105.80
Saucony Grid Type A Lifetime Miles: 94.20
Saucony Fastwitch 7 Blue Lifetime Miles: 132.40
Saucony Fastwitch 7 Red Lifetime Miles: 135.90
New Balance Vazee Summit V2 Black Lifetime Miles: 121.90
Skechers Go Med Speed 4 Lifetime Miles: 36.70
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.400.0013.600.0030.00
RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 27.60RETIRED Skechers Meb Speed 3 Murica Miles: 2.40
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

1600' of climb. Trails with Nate Blouin. 9:30 pace. I'm so bad at uphills.

RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.400.000.000.002.40

7:25 AP. Sore from yesterday. Haha.

RETIRED Skechers Meb Speed 3 Murica Miles: 2.40
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

Bprb to jcc on bosho and back. Worked pretty hard for the 7:30 AP; heart rate peaked out at 183.

 

RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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0.000.005.600.005.60

Parking lot north of red butte concert area to top of wire and back. Worked pretty hard on the way up, but kept it in control. HR hit 181 but was only rarely above 175. Ran moderate to living room and then as fast as I could handle from there to bosho. Someone couldn't get their dog or of the way and I couldn't stop in time, so I hurdled a dog. Fun.

RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 5.60
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.000.008.000.008.00

Really like these shoes. Not sure if I've pointed that out yet. They're relatively light and have good ground feel, while retaining really good rock protection. That showed today when I ran from Dry Creeek up to the false summit of Little Black Mountain (pretty rugged trail once you depart from BOSHO), back, and then to BPRB. I only made it to the false summit because 1) I don't like timing myself over the rocky crags, where rushing myself and falling could be severe, and 2) I didn't really have enough time anyway. Ahh, good old experiments on a Sunday. I ran up to the ridgeline really hard (HR hit 187, when my max is probably 190) and then backed off on the way up Little Black (legs couldn't handle it so well). Net climb of just over 3000' on the way up and down. Time of 59:31 seemed OK. Want to say that I was low 50s when in shape and probably could have pushed a couple minutes off today in the 2nd half. I've never been that great at super steep stuff. Anyway, a fun time out there. Saw in the hidden book off the peak that one of the last few people that hit the summit and logged it was 82 years old. Impressive.

RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
16.400.0013.600.0030.00
RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 27.60RETIRED Skechers Meb Speed 3 Murica Miles: 2.40
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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