Slowly Getting Faster

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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

Mon, Apr 16, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.15	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.15

The initial plan was to incorporate Flag Rock into this run, but that was only because I thought the distance was much shorter. As it turns out, not only is it long but it has some decent elevation gain as well. VH beat me up the hills - as he does every time - but my ego aside it was a good run. Somehow I need to get faster up those hills though.

2:01:55; 11:48 average pace

Vertical Feet 2012 Miles: 2333.00	Saucony Perigrin Miles: 10.15

Comments

From MatthewVH on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 22:52:09 from 67.2.181.61

What was the el. gain total?

From TheMr.K on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 23:00:53 from 67.164.204.6

2,333'.

From MatthewVH on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 23:05:18 from 67.2.181.61

I had no idea it was that much. Add Flag Rock to that and we got 4,000. I guess you were trying to tell me that.

From TheMr.K on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 23:07:16 from 67.164.204.6

Yeah. It would be over 4,000' by a few hundred feet I think. Not sure I had it in me today but we should give it a go soon.

From Scott Wesemann on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 13:53:59 from 75.162.69.65

The key to beating him up the hills is to keep moving when he has to stop to move some product.

From Dorsimus on Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:37:24 from 209.23.248.163

Just keep doing what you're doing and you'll get faster for sure.

I was thinking of doing something like this tomorrow - Baer to Flag rock and back - something like that.

From TheMr.K on Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:22:29 from 168.179.185.33

That will be a serious run. close to 4k feet probably and 10+ miles. I'm not sure I'm going to get a run tomorrow now that I have injured my leg again.

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