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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
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Saucony Fastwitch 7 Blue Lifetime Miles: 132.40
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
48.800.003.400.0052.20
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.300.000.000.0010.30

A little over 10 miles with Kevin.  Started at his house, ran up to Virginia, up to 11th, along the aves to drop into City Creek, up to the 2 mile mark, back down, around by capital hill, and then back up 2nd.  Legs felt a little hammered today (thanks to a hard 16 yesterday, followed by a few hours of hiking, and then some skiing earlier today), but they still were OK to run.  I won't have a car this week, for a good chunk of the week, thanks to having to have my head gasket and timing belt replaced (head gasket is starting to go bad and leaking oil into my coolant, timing belt is getting done while the engine is open), so I'll probably actually get reasonable mileage just out of the sheer necessity of having to run to get places.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

My building on campus to my home (car in the shop all week), 8.5 in 61, also had to do about .5 miles worth of running to catch a couples buses/trax.  It is lame not having a car for a few days.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.002.000.004.00

Got in a few miles of running by having catch buses/trax on time (across campus twice, from my apartment to a stop, and then from a stop back to my apartment).  I actually had to run 2 of the miles at tempo effort, which was a real blast wearing normal clothing. Haha.  Got home at 7:30 and since this week is supposed to be helping me recover for next weekend's marathon (especially after my legs got hammered with a hard 16, a moderate 10, skiing, and hiking all within 36 hours over the weekend), I decided not to run more.  I had been debating another long run early this week, but I have apparently had 12 runs of 15 or more (11 or 16 or more, and 10 of 17 or more) in this specific build (last 12 or 13 weeks), so I'm just going to trust in that rather than beating myself up.  Even if my mileage hasn't been great, my long runs have been pretty consistent.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.001.400.0010.40

9 miles, home to work, not quite the most direct route.  Hobie Call style, as I was wearing the equivalent of a weight vest (backpack with jeans, shirt, shoes, winter jacket, wallet, keys, cell phone, etc).

 

Later, another hard 1.4 miles of uphill tempo to catch the bus. Hah. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.500.000.000.007.50

1 mile to and from bus stops in the AM (real run coming later).

Next, 1 mile jog to the gym and then 5 miles on the indoor field house track with Kevin in 34:xx.

Finally, half mile back home from a bus stop.   None of those extra bits of jogging probably do much for me, but they do all add up.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.000.000.000.001.00

1 mile to/from bus stops.  Get my car back in a few hours, which will be nice.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

winter series 15k plus a slight bit extra.  didn't race, just ran casually at a little over 7:00 pace.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
48.800.003.400.0052.20
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