| 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 | 38.60 | 3.25 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 44.85 |
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Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 18.75 | Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green 2) Miles: 22.30 |
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Night Sleep Time: 40.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 40.00 | Weight: 171.75 | |
| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | 4.00 | 2.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.25 |
| Lunch - 6.25 miles on the treadmill today (I forgot my sunblock and didn't want to get sunburned). After having had a goose egg on Friday and Saturday due to fathers and sons campout on Friday night, and Saturday being a nightmarishly crazy day, it felt good to get back into the swing of things. Warmed up first 1/2 mile at 8:00 pace, then bumped up the speed to 7:30 pace until I hit 4 miles. Then bumped up the speed to 6:58 pace for the rest of the run. It felt very good to get in the run. Average pace of 7:20 for the entire run. |
Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 6.25 |
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Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | 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 | 5.80 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.80 |
| Lunch - 6.5 miles on the treadmill (I forgot my sunblock again). Decided to break up the monotony by turning today's run into a medium-hard workout. Warmed up nice and easy for 1 mile, then into the workout. 2 miles at 5K pace (5:42/mile), then 1 mile easy to recover, then another mile at 5K pace, followed by 1.5 easy mile. Hard stuff. This is my goal 5K pace to get me under 18:00 for the 5K this year. I will have to see if I can do it or not. In any case, I was pretty spent after this workout. Nice and easy tomorrow and then next day to let my legs recover from today. I need to find another time when I can run, as it is mostly too hot now to run with the boys, so they have been running on our treadmill (which sadly I cannot use because it makes a horrible screeching noise when I try to run on it - but they don't have any problems). I may start waking up earlier so that I can get in a few miles in the morning. Otherwise there is no way I will be able to get in much more than what I am doing right now. PM - 1.5 miles with Samuel at 9:20 pace. He did a really good job. When he first started out, he was running at 8:15 pace. Afterwards I ran 0.65 miles with Joey at 9:57 pace. I told Joey that my legs were a little sore from running hard at lunch and to not run too hard, and what does he do? He took off! Finally, 0.15 miles with Adam at 12:15 pace. All of the runs with the boys were done in my aqua socks. |
Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 6.50 |
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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 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Lunch - 6 miles outside. I forgot my Garmin, but finally brought my sunblock today, and it was an absolutely gorgeous day. Calves and hamstrings felt a little sore from my speed workout yesterday, but gradually loosened up as the run progressed. Average pace of 7:25/mile. |
Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 6.00 |
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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 | 7.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.60 |
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AM - woke up at 5:30 so that I could run a little bit, did 1.5 easy miles in my aquasocks to simulate barefoot running. Legs were pretty stiff at first, but loosened up after the first 1/2 mile, and I enjoyed the rest of the run. I also got my new shoes from Steve yesterday, so I will be running in them today - looking forward to it.
Lunch - 6.1 miles outside. My legs were absolutely trashed today - no snap to them, just felt like rubber the entire time. I did get to break in my new shoes, which felt nice - I could definitely tell the difference between the new ones and the ones that have almost 600 miles on them. Just pushed through today. Average pace of 7:28/mile. For some reason, it also felt hotter today, although it really wasn't that bad. It was probably about 86 when I finished - not horrible, and certainly much cooler than the other week when it was over 100 when I ran to pick up my car. |
Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green 2) Miles: 6.10 |
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Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 172.00 |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| Lunch - 6.2 miles outside. Legs felt better than yesterday, but still a little rubbery. That could have been from playing volleyball last night for an hour. I was struggling a little bit today with my breathing, in spite of what felt like an easy pace. Average pace of 7:26/mile for the run. Did not get up early this morning because I didn't get enough sleep the night before, and if I am going to get up early and run, I need to be in bed by 10:00. |
Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green 2) Miles: 6.20 |
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Night Sleep Time: 7.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.50 | 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 | 9.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| AM - 10 miles this morning without eating breakfast, which pretty much ensured I would be burning mostly fat on this run. Ran 4 miles to the HS track, average pace of 7:53/mile, then did total of 3 miles on the track. First two were average of about 7:30/mile, and the last one was about 7:15. Then ran back via a different route. By this time I was really feeling the effects of not having eaten anything, and felt like I was just plodding along. I decided that it would be a good idea for me to push the last mile to work on improving my fat-burning capability at faster speeds. Slowly increased speed from 7:55/mile or so to about MP effort with a mile to go. Last mile in 6:47. It was pretty difficult, both to maintain turnover as well as from a cardiovascular perspective. We'll see if I get in any more miles today. I am still kind of sore from volleyball - mostly either my piriformis or my gluteus medius on my right side. Stretched it out last night, will stretch some more today. |
Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green 2) Miles: 10.00 |
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Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 171.50 |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | 38.60 | 3.25 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 44.85 |
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Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green) Miles: 18.75 | Saucony Grid Tangent 3 (Green 2) Miles: 22.30 |
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Night Sleep Time: 40.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 40.00 | Weight: 171.75 | |
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