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Location:

Preston,Id,USA

Member Since:

Mar 09, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:


2009 TOU Half Marathon 1:25:06

2010 St George Painter's Half Marathon 1:25:24

2011 Jan. St George [Painter's] Half Marathon different course 1:25:28

2011 Apr. Boston Marathon 3:03:24

2011 May Ogden 5K 18:18

2011 July 4th 15K Freedom Run 58:53

2011 July Deseret News 10K 37:12

2011 Oct St George Marathon 2:58:18

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 18 min. 5k

1:24  Half

 Sub 3 at St George in Oct.

Get injury free and stay that way

Set new PRs at all distances now that I'm 50

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

17:30 5K

2:50 marathon

Personal:

I was born in 1960

I started running in 2006

I am married with a 16 year old son [that lives with my wife and I] and a 30 year old step son and 25 year old step daughter

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

6 miles @ 8:35

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     Didn't get away until late morning after moving irrigation pipe and waiting to meet a truck with a delivery. The temp was 75 at the start and was quickly climbing. I ran 10 miles up past the reservoir and surprised a pair of Canada Geese that were on the bank with 7 goslings. It was fun to watch them put up a very noisy fuss while they scrambled to get everyone into the water and away from the shore. The temperature climbed into the 80s which I'm really not used to yet. I stopped and soaked my shirt in the lake a couple of times. With just under 2 miles to go, I was so thirsty I stopped and went into the church for a drink of water. It was open for today's primary election. 8:13 AP

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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     Last night was our annual church's father son activity. At the end they had they had a competition with 4 events. One of them was a three legged race. Toward the end of the three legged race, my son and I had to really pour it on to catch the team ahead of us right at the line. The extra force of pulling your leg forward with another leg tied to it or the awkward motions of trying to keep from falling seemed to strain my hip flexor a bit. It seems to be a week spot I have and has lately felt like it was on the verge of acting up anyway and I think this just put it over the edge. It just felt like a fatigued muscle when we finished and went straight into the next event which required you to take turns sprinting to marked circles on the field, catch a football while inside the circle that was thrown by your partner, then after he sprints to the next spot and you pass to him you sprint to the next one until you cross the field. The sprinting on the just strained hip flexor definitely made it worse. I could tell I had done something right after we finished but just hoped it wasn't too bad.

     This morning it was only slightly sore so I decided to just do an easy run. I went 6 miles at 8:55 pace and the hip seemed better after a couple of miles. The rest of the day, after the run, my hip tightened up more and more and felt much worse by evening.

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     Hip flexor not any better so I skipped the run.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.500.000.000.000.005.50

     My hip flexor was still just as sore yesterday but felt much better today so I attempted another run. I went 5.5 miles and it felt great. I felt like I could have gone farther but didn't want to risk it. With the day off tomorrow I'm hoping to get back to normal training next week. 8:26 AP

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
27.500.000.000.000.0027.50
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