Craig's Running Blog

Week starting Dec 09, 2007

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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:

2~~011: 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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Totals

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
23.00	14.00	2.00	0.00	32.50	0.00	0.00	39.00

Sun, Dec 09, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
4.00	2.50	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.50

Again- a great morning for a run in the snow. I hit the pipeline and porter rockwell trails, knowing that there would be little or no traffic on the new snow. Sure enough- they had plowed it the night before, but there were a couple new inches on the trail. Perfect.

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Mon, Dec 10, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
1.00	5.00	0.00	0.00	6.00	0.00	0.00	6.00

Man- it's just too cold and icy to run outside right now. I was supposed to meet some friends around Murray Park for a 5 mile run, but I went to the gym instead. Good thing. I heard it was awful on the busy roads among the ice.

I pushed it fairly hard between a 5:40 and 6:00 pace most of the time. It felt fine, but I took a swim and relaxed in the steam room afterwards to keep things loose.

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Wed, Dec 12, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
3.00	2.00	0.00	0.00	5.00	0.00	0.00	5.00

Wow. Cold morning. 20 degrees as I headed out. I dressed for it, though.

Just a generic 5 miles, knowing I'd be at the gym at lunch for racquetball.

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Thu, Dec 13, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
4.00	2.50	0.00	0.00	6.50	0.00	0.00	6.50

For some reason, I have been feeling the worst when I take a day off and then try to run the next day. That was yesterday's story. Today was better.

Still very cold, but not quite as bad as yesterday. 22 degrees. Things felt pretty good, and got progressively better up through mile 6. I was starting to get pretty cold in the hands the last 1/2 mile, even with 2 layers of gloves. I guess I'll have to put on the heavier ones Saturday morning when we're out in the cold longer. I ran a few times last year with a ski mask as well, and that worked surprisingly well (if you don't mind what you look like).

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Fri, Dec 14, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
3.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	3.00	0.00	0.00	3.00

Full day of snowboarding, topped off with an easy run. It was surprisingly nice up at Brighton, as they had just opened Great Western the day before. We had a recruiting firm pay for a full day and lunch. Nice.

Again, I was thankful for my running because it gave me the endurance to be out for a full day while many of the others were done at 11:30. In fact, they started drinking at 11:30, had lunch with us at 12:30, and then kept drinking the rest of the afternoon. I don't know how they made it down the canyon.

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Sat, Dec 15, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
8.00	2.00	2.00	0.00	12.00	0.00	0.00	12.00

Wow- tough hill. I met with the group. There were 14 of us, including the dog. We took that huge 700ft hill as hard as we could. The cold nearly killed us.

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Totals

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
23.00	14.00	2.00	0.00	32.50	0.00	0.00	39.00

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