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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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Lunch - 4 miles on the elliptical trainer, which is a progression from the stationary bike last week.  Felt pretty good, just had the bottoms of my toes go numb, but that happens every time I use an elliptical, so I wasn't worried about that.  I'm going to stick with the elliptical the rest of this week and see how my foot feels, and potentially start running again next Monday.

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Lunch - 35 minutes on the elliptical.  It was a different make/model than the one I used yesterday, and wouldn't you know it - it showed I only did about 3.4 miles in 35 minutes as opposed to 4 miles in 29 minutes yesterday.  Funky.  In any case, I got in a good workout, although this one didn't work with my HRM chest strap.  It also didn't cause my toes and the balls of my feet to go tingly like they did yesterday.  The foot also felt pretty good - a few small twinges.  I had to fight the urge to get on the treadmill.  But the elliptical kicked my trash today - my quads, glutes and hammies were burning afterwards, since about halfway through I cranked up the resistance quite a bit.

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Lunch - 4 miles on the elliptical again.  Afterwards, I decided to do an easy mile on the treadmill to see how it felt and how my foot would hold up.  That was a mistake.  Although my foot felt fine afterwards, the next day my foot was pretty sore, and I have pretty much determined that I don't think I am going to have enough time to regain my fitness to run SGM.  I am going to shut things down for a while and not do anything that would affect my foot until I feel it is 100% healed.  I will probably try to see a sports podiatrist as well to see if we can figure out what is going on.  I may shoot for a winter marathon or something.  This news is disappointing, but I have to be realistic.

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