| Location: UT, Member Since: Jan 17, 2008 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: yearly mileage totals (actual running miles, not crosstraining etc)
2008 - 1,317
2009 - 2,654
2010 - 2,578
2011 - 2,618
2012 - 3,083 (ran everyday this year. PR's in half and full marathons, at age 48!)
2013 - 1,177
2014 - 1,716
2015 - 1,060
2016 - 951
2017 - 786
2018 - 1,058
2019 - 1,211
2020 - 1010
2021 - 1064.9
2022 - 1135.9 Short-Term Running Goals: reacquaint myself with my long lost running freak, and then proceed to get my running freak on
run faster
increase mileage in the Spring
keep running
Long-Term Running Goals: run
Personal: born in 1964. married 25 years. one wife one dog
6 ft tall, nation wide
"Engaging in a little suffering — however self-imposed, arbitrary and contrived — before breakfast each morning tends to demand some humility and injects some marked relief into the rest of the day, making things sharper, more inspired, more immediately aware of the powerful presence of being. And that seems really worthwhile." A. Krupicka
"I cruised down hills, churned up hills, and floated over the asphalt, existing in a world that seemed to lack the confinements of such ubiquitous rivets as time, obligation, or pain. I knew then that this was destined to be one of those serendipitous runs for which so many of
us strive yet so rarely achieve." J. Nevels
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| Asics 2140 Miles: 18.20 | GSS 3 Miles: 9.00 | Asics DS 13 Miles: 4.50 | Trail Shoe Miles: 20.10 | Treadmill Shoe Miles: 4.20 |
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| | 1100 AM, 80-84 degrees, sunny skies. LPT. Drove to the legacy parkway trail and ran. Stayed up late. Slept late. Ran late. After 4.5 miles I ran 5 x 1/4 mile @ 7:50 pace with 1/4 easy. Was going to do 6 quarters but didn't have enough left. Hopefully running in the heat today will make the morning runs seem easier. Hopefully someday I'll be a faster runner. Hopefully I'll find $50,000 in a dusty old crate behind a false wall in the basement.
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| | Noon. Clear, hot (88F), and dry (humidity 18%). One mile boardwalk loops at the nature preserve. Except for the birds and critters, had the place all to myself today. Ran miles 3, 5, and 7 "faster" than the others, (7:50, 8:03, 8:02). There's something so cleansing about running in the heat.
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630 AM, clear, 65 degrees (nice). House/hood/LPT. Easy eight. 11:15 AM. Sunny, 79 degrees, humidity 29%. One mile boardwalk loops at the nature preserve. This location is ideal for 2nd runs in that the surface is flat and soft, and the environment is peaceful, quiet, and traffic free. 4.5 miles. As always my pace was notoriously...slow.
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| Asics DS 13 Miles: 4.50 | Trail Shoe Miles: 8.10 |
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| | AM -78 degrees. Easy, easy, easy on the fire break road with the dogs.
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| | Late lunch run. Sun, 85 degrees, light cooling breezes. It's been awhile since I last ran on the cattle road and out to the dykes the criss cross through the marshes of the bird refuge. It's awesome out there. No traffic, lots of birds and other critters, and bugs, especially at dusk/dawn. I carried my 16 oz. hand held water bottle w/strap and a 32 oz bottle of powerade. At 1 1/2 miles I turn off the cattle road and enter the marshes (hopping over two gates), find a place to stash the powerade, run 7 miles, refill, and it's a mile and a half back to the car. A little overkill on the liquids for a ten miler. But it's good to know I could do 15-17 miles in the heat out there with the same amount of hydrationary preparation. Achilles feels good. It's stiff in the mornigs and nags a little during the runs, but there hasn't been any pain for awhile. I'm still not confident about putting in any speedwork yet. Maybe next week.
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Supposedly I'm not running today... we'll see about that. (Time Passes)
No run today...run tomorrow. Ohhhh the drama!
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7:00 AM. Overcast, 75 degrees. Nice morning. Bluff trail. I lack experience with this consistent running/training stuff. I am a little frustrated that three or four months ago I could run twelve miles a half minute per mile average pace faster than today, AND today felt like it took a lot of effort. What's going on? I have been going easier for the last five weeks because of a sore achilles, but I've been keeping the weekly mileage around 50. Could I lose that much fitness that quickly? Is it my age? (45 yrs.). Is this normal? I know I'll never be a "fast" runner. But I was okay with that as long as I could improve/maintain. But lately it feels like I'm going backwards! Argh. That being said, I sure do love running... Add: In spite of my little whine fest, I should say that I felt stronger on this run than I have for a while.
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| Asics 2140 Miles: 18.20 | GSS 3 Miles: 9.00 | Asics DS 13 Miles: 4.50 | Trail Shoe Miles: 20.10 | Treadmill Shoe Miles: 4.20 |
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