| 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 | 31.05 | 9.50 | 4.25 | 3.00 | 47.80 |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 9.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.30 |
| Today's run was 9.3 miles in 65:xx, half with Fritz, Kevin, and some Westminster guy named Oliver. They all wanted to do 18, but as a loop, so I just went out with them to Cottonwood area and then turned around. Pace was pretty consistent after a high-7 first mile (right under 7 most of the way). Legs still feel a little heavy, but I think it's mostly a byproduct of having had no good quality purely aerobic based runs in 3 weeks. I've had 3 extremely easy weeks, so it's time to start training for real again. This week will have to bridge me back into the mileage (not to mention that work is going to be pretty darn busy this week), but I need to hit at least 40-45 or so, more if it feels right. I'll definitely have to get in something around 15-18 this upcoming weekend (but by myself so I can run it slowly and not get dragged along at MP). |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 2.25 | 0.00 | 2.25 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| Ran up the hill to the lab for work from my new place in 16:30-ish, ran back home later right on 6:00 pace. Probably not quite tempo effort, but close enough. |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 7.00 |
| With Holly. 3 miles hard, on trail (first trail run of any value since quite awhile back), from the City Creek canyon road up to 5-way in 26:54. I don't know that I've ever run this under 32 before (granted, haven't done it in awhile or ever with reasonable fitness). I followed the same path that Steeplechase does (ie, none of the shortcuts). Came back down but in the meadow I took a game trail down on the Northeast side and followed up the canyon for a little while before crossing the creek and coming back down the road. The uphill was run hard enough that I actually broke Holly on an uphill for probably the first time ever. She was off leash and it took her ~20 seconds longer than me to get to the highest point. On the way down, she was only willing to go a very easy pace, so I guess I tired her out pretty well. :) |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Easy, city creek trails with Katy and the pooch Holly. |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 3.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 miles with Holly, mixed in 2 hard miles of climbing, which she didn't really like. Over the last mile, she kept stopping behind me. Poor pooch needs a haircut so she can deal with the increasing temperatures! |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 6.50 | 9.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
| My apartment at 4th and D to B, up to 11th, down the city creek road, onto the BOSHO trail, up to the 5-way (long route, no shortcuts), to the Jewish Community Center, all at about marathon effort in 60:xx (~8 miles, but with lots and lots of climb, hitting the downhill miles at just over 6:00). Daniels tables calculate this as an equivalent pace of 6:30 if the course were flat, but that's not even factoring in all of the sharp hairpin turns, the rocks all over the trail, or the altitude, so it was a high quality effort. Hit the bottom and was nervous about my ability to hold the same effort on the way back in my first long run in a month, but fortunately I ran into Mark Lehmkuhle, who was going really easy, so I jogged slowly with him back to the 5-way (3.5-ish miles) before he turned around. I kept it easy from the 5-way down to the road (mostly around 7:00 pace on what was mostly just a series of pretty steep downhills). From here, I ran down into Memory Grove and ran it in marathon effort from here (6:15s down the paved path towards the capitol). I could tell that this was my first long run in a month - after 100 minutes or so, I just felt a little off energetically (despite eating 400 calories worth of cookies while running) and like I was close to getting a headache for the last few miles, but I was encouraged by my ability to still hold MP when I wasn't feeling great at the end. And, it was only 16 miles, but with a ton of vertical mixed in (nearly 3000' by the end of the run), so it was definitely a "better" long run than just going out for a 16 mile slog with almost 10 at MP. I'm thinking about meeting up with some folks for another similar length trail run tomorrow, but it will be really slow. Nothing wrong with that. |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 31.05 | 9.50 | 4.25 | 3.00 | 47.80 |
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