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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:

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

Long-Term Running Goals:

~~qualify for Boston Marathon~~
run Boston Marathon
run sub-2:50 marathon
run sub-1:20 1/2 marathon
run sub-17:00 5K
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

Tue, Mar 17, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
5.05	1.00	1.90	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	7.95

Lunch - 5.8 miles outside. It was a little warm, but otherwise absolutely wonderful. Took a different route today - ran up Priest Dr. until it turned into Galvin Pkwy and ran past both the Phoenix Zoo and the Desert Botanical Gardens, then Galvin Pkwy turned into 64th.St. Galvn Pkwy is all uphill going north and downhill going south. Turned around at the 2.9 mile mark - 7:30 average pace on the dot for the first half. It felt very good, and I wanted to push it a little bit coming back. First mile coming back was pretty flat, not really any downhill at all - 7:09. Second mile I hit quite a bit of downhill, and at one steep downhill got down to about 5:10 pace. Second mile was 6:30. Last 0.9 was at 6:19 pace. Total time for the run was 40:57, average pace of 7:05/mile.

PM - 1.5 miles with Samuel in average pace of 10:30/mile - he was suffering from allergies and, despite his desire to earn his smoothie, was unable to do so. I made him slow down because he didn't sound so good. Afterwards, 0.65 miles with Joey in average pace of 11:25/mile.

Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 5.80

Night Sleep Time: 6.50	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 6.50	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Burt on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 17:59:18 from 68.76.197.194

Did you hold that 5:10 pace for the entire mile?

From James w on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 21:37:12 from 208.54.14.40

Not chance. That just happened to be a particularly steep downhill stretch going south on the trail next to Galvin Parkway. I'm not that fast - yet . . . :)

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