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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
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
62.307.001.000.0070.30
RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 42.50RETIRED Saucony Kinvara 3 Red Miles: 4.60RETIRED Nike Zoom Streak LT2 Miles: 23.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

12 from Liberty Park with Allie, James, Josh, and Fritz.  Nice out and back, pretty flat, out to and along JRP.  Legs felt a little tired today, which means that it's a good time to go out for ski day #27 of the season. :)

RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 12.00
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
9.100.000.000.009.10

9.1 miles with Holly, quite late (midnight start), 7:45 average pace.  Would've done a little more, but Holly started getting tired around mile 7, so I cut it a little short.  Hilly loop through Aves/Fed Heights/Upper Campus Research Park (low point under 4500', high point over 5000').

 

 

RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 9.10
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
10.400.000.000.0010.40

2.4 up to the gym, 5.1 on a treadmill at the gym, 2.9 home (if comparing to Garmin, I started the watch a little late after leaving the gym).  6:45 pace on the treadmill, 7:30 (hilly) on the road.  Kinvara 4s are starting to tear, ever so slightly, in the upper, after 123.6 miles.  Lame.  Good thing I still have some 3s.

RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 10.40
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Hip felt a little tight, weather was atrocious, didn't want to risk it, took the day off.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.703.000.000.0010.70

4.6 miles right after work, from the lab, all I had time to fit in.  Ran in the old red Kinvara 3s and my hip, which felt slightly wonky, got the tightest it's been at any point in this training cycle.  I think running on the super sloppy trails last Friday put it in a sensitive state, and these shoes messed it up.  I finished the run, saw how unevenly worn they were (they were literally forcing my foot to buckle in, which was what caused the extreme hip pain before), and chucked them in the trash to avoid the temptation of wearing them again and really messing myself up.

 

Later, 6.1 miles more in my Zoom Streak LT2s.  The hip was touchy from earlier, but I could tell that it wasn't getting any worse.  Still, I kept it short to be safe.  I'm pretty confident that I won't have a setback, but I'm going to be EXTREMELY cautious over the next few days.  I'd like to get in a long run on Saturday still, but if I can't, I'll accept that.  I'll probably double tomorrow to avoid going longer than 8 miles in a single run. In any case, if being cautious means having a second week in the training cycle under 70 miles, so be it.  My #1 goal of this season is to stay healthy, not to rack up mileage.

RETIRED Saucony Kinvara 3 Red Miles: 4.60RETIRED Nike Zoom Streak LT2 Miles: 6.10
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
12.104.001.000.0017.10

Very thankful for Matt Poulsen today, who may have saved my upcoming marathon.  I was getting pretty worried about my hip, but then remembered the night-and-day difference made by methylprednisolone prescribed by Matt back in the summer, which allowed me to start training again, finally, after a summer of hip pain.  I emailed Matt, he got back to me right away, and I had my prescription a couple hours later.  I took the first dose and then started watching Lost, which is quite addictive, so I didn't get out the door to run until an admittedly absurd 12:45 am.

 

In any case, I decided to do an easy run on some iteration of 9th East just to feel things out and go as much as 12 miles if I felt great.  After the first mile, which is very hilly (my place to 9th and south temple, nearly 100' up and 100' down, with a slight net up), I looked at my watch expecting near 8:00 and saw 7:02.  At that point, I realized that my body just felt awesome tonight, so I decided that if my hip was still feeling it by 21st south, I'd do the long run, and maybe even put some fast miles near the end like I had wanted to do a few days ago.

 

At 21st, I was feeling great and averaging 6:46s very easily, so I turned up towards Highland and then took that all the way to 45th, where I still felt good, other than having to make a 5 minute pit stop at 711 to use their bathroom.  I had been debating the merits of going hard from 10 to 15, but by 9.5, I still felt good and decided to give it a go.  I turned on to 5th south and hit 10 miles shortly thereafter, and picked it up.  I decided I would go a little harder than marathon effort (6:05 at sea level would 6:23-ish here, so I decided to push nearly sea level marathon pace into a minor-to-moderate headwind).  11, 12, 13, and 14 were 6:08, 6:13, 6:12, 6:09, and then I got tired of running so easy, so I pushed mile 15 in 5:47.


I ran the last 2.1 miles at 7:40-ish pace, uphill, which felt really slow after the faster miles, and now I better get to bed since it's after 3 am.  Average pace 6:40.

 

In any case, I'm extremely grateful today just to be able to run and I felt exhilirated for that entire 17 miles, which probably kept from falling asleep on my feet before I finished at 2:30 or 2:40 am.  Thanks to Matt Poulsen for his help and generous giving of his time, and thanks to modern medicine for keeping me off the sidelines. :)

RETIRED Nike Zoom Streak LT2 Miles: 17.10
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
11.000.000.000.0011.00

AM: Ski day #29.

11 miles with Holly at 7:37 average pace.  To 9th to 27th (with a pit stop over to 8th en route to get some poop bags, since Holly wouldn't stop going to the bathroom... hah...) to Highland to 21st to 9th, back home.  Legs felt tired, but hip was fine.

RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 11.00
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
62.307.001.000.0070.30
RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 42.50RETIRED Saucony Kinvara 3 Red Miles: 4.60RETIRED Nike Zoom Streak LT2 Miles: 23.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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