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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. 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 | 32.00 | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 43.00 |
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Night Sleep Time: 39.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 39.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | 5.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| AM - 6 miles on my own today. I was planning to run with Sparky after 4 miles, but I looked for several minutes and couldn't find his leash. Sorry, honey! I really wanted too, though. Anyways, back to my run. I felt really good today, really had a good rhythm going. Started out real easy and slowly worked my way into my pace. First mile in 8:13. Second mile in 7:35. Still felt really good, no soreness, no tiredness, no straining in my breathing or anything. Third mile I just kind of took of without meaning to - I had kind of considered doing a little tempo just to see how it felt, but hadn't planned on running as fast as I did. Third mile in 6:42. Oops. I'm probably gonna get it for that when I get home. So it felt good to my legs, they didn't hurt, they didn't feel tired, but my lungs could definitelyl feel it. I really do need to get in some good tempo work, both for the ADT 1/2 as well as for St. George. I am aiming at a pace of between 6:30 and 6:40 for the ADT 1/2, and am hoping for a pace of 6:50-6:55 at St. George. I am planning on integrating a nice 6-8 mile tempo into my long run this Saturday. Still anticipating more torture from Lybi too :) Actually, I am really grateful for the time she spends working the knots out of my calf. I think she has helped to salvage my ability to run St. George this year. |
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 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| AM - 4 miles by myself, average pace of 7:55/mile, then 2 miles with Sparky, average pace of 8:35/mile. Started out nice and easy on my run (sound familiar?), slowly got into my pace, but today I did not deviate from it, except a little bit on the last mile. First mile 8:25, second and third miles 7:50, last mile 7:35. The last mile didn't feel any faster or harder than the second two miles, and my calves didn't complain at all, although they were a little bit tight after the run. We went to see Prince Caspian at the dollar theater for family home evening, so we didn't get home until late, and I had to go shopping, so I didn't get the chance to have Lybi work her magic on my calf last night. She has her ward missionary stuff tonight, so I will have to see what time she gets home tonight to see if she will be able to spend some time on my calf tonight. |
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 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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PM - 6 miles outside in the evening heat . . . temperature was 99 degrees at the start of my run, and that contributed, I think, to my legs feeling kind of dead and the run feeling more difficult (plus it was fairly windy). Average pace of 7:59/mile, no fast miles, just wanted to get in the miles. |
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 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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AM - 4 miles on my own, then 2 miles with Sparky.
Started off at a nice easy pace, then slowly picked up the pace until I was at about 7:30-7:40 pace. At the 2 mile mark, turned around and picked up the pace, 3rd mile was 6:55. Still felt a little harder than I was expecting - I will contribute this to the heat. Final mile was 7:12, I had planned on slowing down, but it just did not happen like I wanted. Since this is below my pace for a BQ, I will consider it MP, although if truth be told, it actually felt a lot easier than then previous mile. Still planning on a long run this Saturday with 6-8 miles at MP. |
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 |
| PM - 6 miles on the treadmill. It was pretty hot out, so I didn't want to wear myself out in anticipation of the big workout the following day. Nice and easy, felt good, average pace of 7:59/mile. |
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 | 5.00 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
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AM - 3 easy miles with Sparky. Did not have time to do my big workout this morning.
PM - big workout. 10 miles on the treadmill, 8 miles of which were at MP. Started off nice and easy, at 8:30 pace. After 1/2 mile, sped up to 8:00 pace, then to 7:30 pace after .75 miles. Then got into my workout. 8 miles at MP - 6:53/mile. I had two goals going into this workout: 1) see how long I could maintain my regular breathing rhythm and 2) see how long I could maintain good form. I was hoping for both goals that I would be able to maintain throughout. I did pretty good with the first goal - after 6 miles, I had a few instances where I wasn't able to maintain my breathing rhythm, but I got back into it and was able to pretty much maintain throughout. For the second, I also started having little issues with my form after about 6 miles. I could tell that I was straining a bit for the last couple miles, and my legs were starting to feel tired, but I was able to finish it out. Cooled down with an easy mile at 8:30 pace. |
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 | 32.00 | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 43.00 |
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Night Sleep Time: 39.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 39.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
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