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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
Mon, Oct 08, 2007
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No miles today.  I don't remember ever being this sore after a race.  I take consolation in the fact that some of the elites on the blog feel the same way as I do, although I would say for me I feel like my lower body got run over by a Mack truck.  I am not even at the stage where I can attempt to do any light jogging or even cross-training, when standing up from a sitting position or sitting from a standing position causes me a great deal of pain.  I will give it a few more days and see how my legs feel - they actually seem to be better today (Tuesday) then they were the previous day.  Maybe one or two more days of forced inactivity, and I will be ready to start out again.  I have given myself the goal of no more than 1 week of no running, earlier if possible.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 13:33:47

Can you bike? What about stationary bike?

From Tom on Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 13:34:25

Ouch! - I can sympathize with your pain, you're giving me flashbacks of my 1st couple of SG marathons. If your able to follow the downhill training advice that Sasha and others have given you I think it will make a huge difference for next year.

I noticed you updated your goals and they're looking very much inline with what myself and a few others on the blog are hoping to do next year. I know at least PaulT, MichelleL and probably others have shown interest in running next year in the 2:55-3:00 range. Hopefully we can keep an eye on each other and encourage each thru the next year and see another round of glorious PRs.

From James in Sunny AZ on Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 13:55:45

I'm not sure I can even bike today - well, I may be able to do easy biking for ROM only - I will have to see. I was planning on just giving myself a couple of days to completely recover, then start up again. I will be monitoring my body on a regular basis to see what it is capable of.

From Heber on Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 14:31:37

Just heard about your marathon. You da man! I sympathize with the leg pain. I felt the same way after my first marathon. There were stairs at the airport to get up to my gate and I almost cried. Walked funny for 3 or 4 days.

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