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Location:

Farmington,Ut,United States

Member Since:

Sep 12, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Not much to speak of yet.

My fastest Marathon was 3:38 (St. George); 3:36:00 (St. George 2012)

My fastest Half was 1:55 (Farmington Festival Days)

Haven't competed in anything less than a half in a while 

Short-Term Running Goals:

5K: 21 min

10K: 40 min

Half: 1:40

Marathon: 3:05 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Get my mile time down to 6 min for long distances (marathon pace)

run a 4 min mile

get fast and competitive on trails

get fast enough to be a local elite 

Personal:

married with kids.  I want my kids to see me accomplish the above goals so hopefully they too will want to be active and healthy. 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Altra Instinct Lifetime Miles: 295.43
Altra Instinct V2 Lifetime Miles: 424.34
Altra Lone Peak Lifetime Miles: 519.15
Saucony Perigrin Lifetime Miles: 327.60
Flag Rock Summits 2013 Lifetime Miles: 10.00
Vertical Feet 2013 Lifetime Miles: 147360.00
Saucony Mirage Lifetime Miles: 249.48
Altra Lone Peak 1.5 Lifetime Miles: 255.16
Mizuno Sayonara Lifetime Miles: 46.80
Vertical Feet 2014 Lifetime Miles: 10299.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.110.000.000.0011.11

I did two runs today, although the second one was a slow jog for about half of it. The first run was a lunch-time run on the BST starting at hilltop and 18th ave again.  This time I just stuck to the BST instead of trying to summit any peaks.  My original plan was to go all the way to the U, but that was cut short in favor of finding a bathroom and keeping my pants relatively clean.  For some reason I've had stomach problems all day today. I tried to keep the pace easy as I wanted this to be a sort of recovery jog and at the end I felt really good, which is why I did the second run today. 

 First run: 6.19 miles: AP: 10:33; Vert: 1,174'

 

The second run was with MattVH up Centerville peak.  This is a steep hill and despite starting off feeling good I got my trash kicked by VH all the way up and down this mountain. I did manage to run (or rather slowly jog) almost the entire trail (when it wasn't snow covered) which made me pretty happy.  The trip back down was a brutal quad pounding, much more serious than Flag Rock, that has left my legs feeling a bit jelly-rific. For those interested here is the link to the trail: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/158031264

Second Run: 4.92 miles (if my garmin is to be believed) AP: 14:23; Vert: 1,844 

Vertical Feet 2012 Miles: 3018.00Altra Instinct V2 Miles: 6.19Altra Lone Peak Miles: 4.92
Comments
From MatthewVH on Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 19:15:26 from 67.2.181.61

I got a solid 5 miles on the Centerville run. You did well after having done 6 miles earlier.

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