| 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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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| RETIRED Skechers GoMeb Speed 2 - Chevron Houston Marathon Edition Miles: 4.50 | RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 3.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Went to the sports MD finally (jogged 1 mile to get there, which only hurt a little bit, although I had a dull ache for an hour afterwards). Had an x-ray done, and apparently I have a stress reaction in my tibia. This sucks, but at least I caught it before it grew into a full fledged fracture. Right now, there's just a lot of bone remodeling in my leg, but there's not a crack - at least not to the extent that it would show up on an x-ray. The doctor's hypothesis was that the pounding at St George, coupled with the very minimal training I put in for it, really did a number on my right leg, which is already weaker than my left thanks to the long-term, but now very minor, hip issues. My gait is still not perfect, and my compensation for my hip probably put extra stress on the tibia. The good news is that I can still ski/hike/etc if I'm not being reckless and jumping off of stuff, and since my leg already feels substantially better now than it did a couple weeks ago, I can ease back into training pretty soon, especially if I stick to soft surfaces. In the past, I'd have been really bummed about this, but after losing a year and a half of productive running to mononucleosis from late 2009 to mid 2011, I'm better at having patience in these types of scenarios. I'll almost certainly still get to run a spring marathon, so I can't complain.
Also, I remember, humorously at this point, a conversation with Jake a year or two ago about how fat people are more likely to get bone injuries on steep downhill courses like St George, so I guess I must fall into that category. :)
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.50 |
| Jogged to and from my car in a somewhat distant parking lot with no pain!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.50 |
| 1.5 miles with Holly. To that local park with the tennis courts, around a lap, and back. No pain!
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| RETIRED Skechers GoMeb Speed 2 - Chevron Houston Marathon Edition Miles: 1.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 miles back in MN at 6:57 pace, after flying in with Daria, to whom I got engaged since becoming injured. Temps were a surprisingly warm 34, but that made for slick, soupy conditions, as a sleety mix of rain and snow was coming down. Stayed on paved trails and less busy roads due to running after dark without a headlamp. Shoes got thoroughly soaked and legs were red and stung after being exposed to the elements, but it was fun to get out for a 20+ minute run without pain!
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| RETIRED Skechers GoMeb Speed 2 - Chevron Houston Marathon Edition Miles: 3.00 |
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| The day after my last run (7 days ago), my leg had a dull ache briefly, so I decided to take a little more time to make sure it's healthy. Stress injuries can be weird - it's often hard to tell if they're healed or not as dull aches can be present both when they're still injured and when they're recently healed. I want to string together some good training this winter, so I decided 4 weeks since diagnosis is smarter than 3.
In any case, I tried again today and did 3 miles on a treadmill after flying back into Utah. First mile was 6:35, 2nd was 5:57, 3rd was 5:37. I figured that if I wasn't going to go far, I might as well do it semi fast. I'm super out of shape, so it felt harder than it should've, but that's OK. Christmas was fun, although skiing in the midwest was even more pathetic than I'd imagined. Trollhaugen (under 100 acres, under 300' vertical drop) is not a real ski resort:
I hope I'm healthy, but I guess I won't know for sure for a little while. As long as the leg doesn't feel like it's getting worse, I guess that'll be good enough. The plan is to get into good enough shape to run Phoenix half without embarassing myself and then actually run the BOSHO trail marathon seriously this year. No more of this 4+ hour, second place crap. If someone beats me this year, they're going to have to run fast.
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| Sick. Sore throat and body aches.
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| Sick.
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| Still sick.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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| RETIRED Skechers GoMeb Speed 2 - Chevron Houston Marathon Edition Miles: 4.50 | RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 3.00 |
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