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Beat the New Year 5k

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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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Race: Beat the New Year 5k (3.1 Miles) 00:21:00
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Got together with my running friends to do the 5k at Sugarhouse Park. We got Indian costumes on and ran Indian files the whole race. Actually Jeremy kept picking up the pace and dropping people, so it went from 7 of us down to 3 at the end. I finished with Jeremy and Travis. We probably started with a 8:00 pace, took it up to 7:00, and finished at about a 5:30 pace. I have no idea what our time was 'cause the clock just told us how much time we had until midnight. I felt good, but we should have done a better warmup. I was pretty tight the next day.

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No running today. Just went up to Snowbird with my son and went snowboarding.

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New Year's Resolution: keep a running log. Time to dust this thing off.

We were going to do about 14 miles up at Jeremy Ranch today, but Coach called it off due to a 10-min blizzard that occurred as we were meeting up (6:30am). We didn't know how long the weather would be bad, so I texted Andrea and we decided to go back to sleep and run at 10am. We met up at the Dimple Dell gully and did trails on the snow. The conditions weren't great, but they were good enough. We also got to try out our new hydration packs that we'll take down to the Moab 50k in February. Nice day. 

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