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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

Sat, Feb 07, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
6.00	3.00	2.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	11.00

AM - got up early this morning and ran with my Del Sol teammates. We started at the corner of Ellsworth and Bush Highway and ran up the back side of Usury Pass before heading down the other side and eventually making our way to Camille's, who graciously offered her home as both a staging area as well as for a post-run breakfast. Took it real easy up the back side of Usury Pass - Adam will remember what this was like from last year's Del Sol - averaged about 10:00/mile and chatted with Burt - then once we hit the peak, I took off and hammered some downhill miles. 7:15, 6:41 and 6:25. Then I slowed down again with about a 7:30 mile, followed by another 7:15 mile (didn't even realize I had sped up again), and then a final mile in 6:45. Then I ran back a little bit and found a couple of other runners from the team and ran back in with them to make it an even 11 miles. Average pace of 8:01/mile.

Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 11.00

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

Comments

From Burt on Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 16:15:02

I'm glad you didn't wait up for me, but I appreciate the conversational hiatus for the first three miles. You really sped up there. It was all I could do to keep up with the gals after that hill. I'm sure they could've gone faster, too.

From Clay on Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 17:41:02

Nice run James, you are coming back into form;-)

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