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Location:

Sandy,UT,USA

Member Since:

Sep 15, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

50K: 6:15 at Moab Red Hot 50k+ (ouch)

Marathon:

St George - 2:44 (2010), 2:47 (2004), 2:48 (2006), 2:50 (2010), 2:51 (2008, 2009), 2:53 (2007), 2:54 (2005, 2001)

Boston - 2:50 (2008)

1/2 Marathon:

Hobble Creek - 1:12 (2010), 1:15 (2009)

Provo River - 1:16 (2003, 2004, 2007, 2010)

Provo Halloween Half 1:14 (2011) 

Moab - 1:18 (2008)

Ogden 1:17 (2010), 1:19 (2009)

Painters (St George): 1:18 (2011), 1:20 (2009, 2010) 

10K: 34:22 (Des News 2009)

5K: 16:32 (2003), 16:33 (2004), 17:11 (2007), 16:32 (2008, aided), 17:29 (2008), 16:25 (2009, aided), 17:25 (2011), 16:06 (2011, aided)

Short-Term Running Goals:

2011: Complete my first Olympic and Half Ironman triathlons

2012: Break 2:40 at St George

Move into endurance mountain biking and trail triathlons (xterra, etc) 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running. Move into triathlons and get stronger. Keep succeeding at half marathons and the occasional marathon.

Personal:

I know Sasha from the CS program at BYU. We both graduated in 1997. He probably doesn't remember me, because he was definitely more vocal in class and among the students than I was.

Married to Teresa with 3 kids: Anders (4), Kristian (9), and Zoe (12).

Fluent in Danish, but there is obviously very little need for that.

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Fri, Oct 19, 2007
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
4.002.000.000.000.006.000.006.00

I somehow got out of work today at 4:00, and made it home by 4:30. I can usually do that on Fridays, and this was no exception. I had a party to go to at 7:00, so I knew I had to be done with the run by 6:00.

The weather was unusually warm, with a strong south wind blowing. This time of year, that usually means storm within 24 hours. I took off at an easy pace, up to the Orson Smith trail head on Highland Drive (in Draper). I went up the new connector trail to the Bonneville Shoreline trail. On my way up, I felt the familiar sharp pains in both achilles tendons, so I backed off and tried not to run on my toes up the hills. Perhaps I have been running too many hills this week? Hills seem to aggravate the issue- especially when I run exclusively on my toes up the hills.

I did a modified shoreline loop, and returned back the way I came. I would have run longer if I wasn't planning on running tomorrow at 7am with locomotion. That's one of the downers about scheduled group runs- it can confine your other runs.

I made it back home about 5:45 and thought it would be better to mow the lawn one last time this year. The shower could wait.

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