| 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. Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 25.45 | 4.00 | 4.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 33.55 |
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| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 27.60 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 26.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 26.50 | Weight: 172.50 | |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.60 |
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Lunch - 5.1 easy miles outside, no Garmin. Run felt pretty easy, but I was having to constantly tell myself to slow down. I felt good after I finished, and didn't check my average until I started writing this entry - 7:19/mile. Wow, that felt a lot easier than I had anticipated. Am I just getting faster from being more fit? Time will tell. Unfortutely I will not have the chance to test my fitness this weekend at Pat's Run, but I will plan on signing up for at least the first summer race series 5K. PM - 1.5 miles with Samuel, average pace of 9:29/mile. He earned his smoothie this week. Joseph decided to throw a fit when I told him I wasn't going to hold his hand any more, and as a result did not run and did not get a smoothie.
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| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 5.10 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 7.65 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.65 |
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Lunch - 5.5 miles outside in beautiful weather. Wore my Garmin today so that I could keep better tabs on my pace. Average pace for the run was 7:31/mile - I'm happy with that. It felt pretty easy - definitely sustainable. Since the weather is getting warmer, I am going to start running with the boys after dinner - we will have to see how that works, since we usually start getting them ready for bed at around 7:15-7:30. I really need to get our treadmill fixed so that it stops making this nasty screeching sound when we run on it - even if I never use it again, and we just use it for the boys.
PM - 1.5 miles with Samuel at 9:58 pace. It was quite windy out, and he had drunk 2 whole cups of lemonade just before running, so he had a hard time of it. But he wanted to run that extra 1/2 mile even less, so he toughed it out and made it. Afterwards, we talked about not drinking a lot of fluids right before running. 0.65 miles with Joseph at 10:50 pace. He realized I was not going to give in and hold his hand, and was able to do a good job. |
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 5.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 1.00 | 4.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.10 |
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Lunch - tempo run today. It was quite windy, which made things pretty interesting. First mile was probably around MP or a little slower, then the rest of the miles were more like 1/2 MP, but I am counting them as threshold miles. Average pace for the run was 6:45/mile. The last mile of the run was most interesting - I had a strong wind of about 20-30 mph blowing in my face the entire time.
On a side note, the geeky side of me is happy about having gotten a new touchscreen cell phone - it is awesome. |
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 5.10 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 172.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 8.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.20 |
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Lunch - 5.9 miles outside. Very nice outside, about 65 degrees, a little breezy. Average pace for the run was 7:28/mile. Felt very good, easy for both the lungs and legs. I am confident that if I can stick with no pop at all, I am going to drop down to where I was prior to SGM last year.
PM - 0.15 miles with Adam, then 0.65 miles with Joey at 10:20 pace, then 1.5 miles with Samuel at 9:44 pace. |
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 5.90 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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Lunch - 6 miles on the treadmill today - wanted to make sure I had some time to get in some core work. First 3 miles easy, then got a little bored and shifted into MP for the last 3 miles. Everything felt good, breathing was good, legs were good (although I can tell that it is really time to get new shoes, and am glad I had ordered new ones from Steve). Finished the run in 43:55, average pace of 7:19/mile. Afterwards, did 1:30 downward facing plank and 1:00 on each side.
Good luck to those running the SLC marathon tomorrow as well as those running Pat's Run here in AZ (I know at least Burt is doing it). |
| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 25.45 | 4.00 | 4.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 33.55 |
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| Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 27.60 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 26.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 26.50 | Weight: 172.50 | |
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