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Location:

Mesa,AZ,

Member Since:

Mar 20, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

  • Mile: 4:37 (HS)
  • 2 Mile: 10:11 (HS)
  • 10K: 35:52 (HS)
  • 5K - 18:15 (ARR Summer Race Series #1 - 2008)
  • 1/2 Marathon: 1:32:00 (St. George 2008 enroute)
  • Marathon: 3:10:56 (St. George 2008)

Short-Term Running Goals:

  1. Get down to 155 lbs 
  2. Run sub 18:00 5K
  3. Run sub 1:30 1/2 marathon
  4. Run sub 3:00 marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

  1. qualify for Boston Marathon
  2. run Boston Marathon
  3. run sub-2:50 marathon
  4. run sub-1:20 1/2 marathon
  5. run sub-17:00 5K
  6. beat my high school 10K time of 35:52

Personal:

I was married in 1997 to my beautiful wife Lybi (confessions of a piano teacher on the blog), and we have 3 wonderful boys who are just as active as I was when I was little (he he). I grew up in southeastern Michigan, and my family became members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when I was 6. I attended BYU, and served a mission in Berlin, Germany. After graduating from BYU with a degree in Health and Human Performance (pre-physical therapy), I promptly changed careers and started working with computers (although no programming for me). We have moved across the country several times, and currently live in Mesa, AZ.  I work in computer security for a major nationwide homebuilder.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Grid C2 Flash Lifetime Miles: 148.66
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
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AM - didn't run, slept in a bit, because I stayed up late to watch the BYU-TCU football game (BYU won!).

PM - 5.1 easy miles with Samuel and Adam in the double jogging stroller.  It was pretty warm out - upper 80's, I think.  I am looking forward to the cooler weather in the afternoon, hopefully to stay now.  It is supposed to be in the 70's by Sunday.  For those that have jogging strollers, I actually have a trick that I use to allow me to work up a better rhythm.  Once I get the stroller going in a straight line, I use one hand and place it in a location that will allow the stroller to continue to go straight, and I swing the other arm as normal.  Every so often, I switch hands on the stroller to make sure both arms get a chance to swing freely.  It works pretty well for me.  Total time for this afternoon's run was 41:09, average pace of 8:04/mile.  Pretty good for lugging 75 pounds worth of boys on a double jogging stroller.  The pace actually felt pretty good, too - it was not difficult.  My achilles also felt pretty good as well.  I am considering running in the afternoon/evening until my achilles recovers, as that gives it all day to loosen up.  I have noticed it seems to be the stiffest in the morning when I first get up, but whenever I have run in the evening, it hasn't been sore.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Brent on Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 21:30:09

James, go cougs, how about them utes? I will remember the stroller trick which pushing my grandkids.

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