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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
Sat, Jan 05, 2013
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.500.000.000.0010.50

This was pretty rough.  Some of the difficulty was the knee deep snow coming down from flag rock and some of it was my lack of calories and water. I brought water with me but my bottle froze 2 miles in and I was left carrying a ice block. I managed to sort it out at mile 8, which helped a little bit. Despite how grueling this run was I think I'm going to do it again because it has too be good for building muscle, right? 

Very slow: 3:17:23  

Saucony Perigrin Miles: 10.50Flag Rock Summits 2013 Miles: 1.00Vertical Feet 2013 Miles: 3225.00
Comments
From MatthewVH on Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 10:13:58 from 70.57.91.80

I would do it again.But you are right - It is rough with the deep and uneven snow.

From Dorsimus on Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 11:38:35 from 209.23.248.163

I figure stuff like that will only make you stronger. Hey, it worked for Rocky.

From Scott Wesemann on Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 17:06:03 from 66.232.64.4

As long as you don't have exposed skin. You guys want to hear me complain again about my snow burns? Ha.

From TheMr.K on Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 18:21:49 from 50.8.73.99

@scott, I thought about that every time I sunk my foot into the snow during this run. Luckily I escaped unscathed, this time.

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