| Location: Salt Lake City,UT,USA Member Since: May 06, 2006 Gender: Male Goal Type: Local Elite Running Accomplishments: Won Park City Marathon (tiny field, slow course, no purse) and Utah Grand Slam in 2006
Marathon: 2:37:04 (St. George 2009) Short-Term Running Goals: Train for as solid a race in Boston 2011 as my schedule will allow. Accept the fact that there isn't room in my life to train for a breakthrough performance and do the best I can under the circumstances.
Long-Term Running Goals: Lose the all-or-nothing mentality and
start using running as an outlet instead of an additional source of
stress. Personal: I'm married with 4 kids (2 boys, 2 girls) and live in Salt Lake City, where I work as a real estate attorney.
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 54.62 | 4.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 59.62 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.21 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.21 |
| Back on the blog after a long hiatus due initially to injury (SI joint problems that lead to disappointing SGM in 2011, followed by neuroma in left foot, which continues to the present) and then to lack of interest in tracking my workouts and a decision to spend some time running only for enjoyment. I'm back on the wagon now as I start training for Ogden.
Day 1 of Ogden training plan. I'm planning to use the Hansons method this time, just to change things up and to keep my mileage a little lower. Life is busier than it was when I last trained hard for a marathon and running falls lower on my priority list. The objective this time around is to put together a solid block of marathon training and to make it to the starting line healthy, not broken down and emaciated like the last time. I've taken up skate skiing in the past year or so and am finding considerable enjoyment in a new sport, so I may take the liberty of replacing a run workout here and there with a ski workout. I'm hopeful that spending more time on an activity that uses hips and core (and having done so consistently for a couple of months in the lead-up to this training block) will help stave off the back problems. We shall see.
I'm running in Hokas now, as that seems to be the only option that works with the neuroma. While not a permanent or perfect solution to the problem, it is working for now, so I'll stick with it.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.21 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.21 |
| Easy loop (Walker-Holly Lane) at 6 a.m. Green air quality so far today, but hard to imagine it will continue for long. Headed to St. George tomorrow for a soccer tournament. Can't wait to run in the desert behind the condo.
Health: legs are predictably sore after running sporadically for the past few months and skiing more, but nothing more than that at this point. Need to keep an eye on my back and make sure to be consistent about working my core.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| In St. George for soccer. Ran back in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, my favorite place on earth to run (so far). Ran on old SITLA road (now blocked to vehicular traffic) to entrance to Reserve, then continued on Millcreek trail to Middleton Power Line trail to Mustang Pass and back. Final mile in 5:40 (downhill). This is God's country.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Final day in SG. Ran on SITLA road to Millcreek but veered off to the northeast on jeep trail that follows power line (parallel to Bone Wash trail). Connected up with Bone Wash trail (deep sand) and followed it past turnoff to Elephant Arch until I hit the 3-mile mark and turned around. Thought I had made it to Elephant Arch based on trail signs, but I talked to a couple of ladies on my way back who assured me that it was another 1.5 miles or so past where the Bone Wash and Elephant Arch trails diverge. I'll have to try it again the next time we come down.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Was supposed to do interval workout today but couldn't fit it in. I'll have to try on the treadmill in the morning (red air quality alert).
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 12x400m intervals (400m jog between each) on the treadmill in the basement. Roughly 1-mile warmup and cooldown. Since this was my first interval workout in well over 2 years, I didn't want to go crazy, so I set the speed at 10 (6 min/mile) for the first 8, then increased it to 10.5, then 11, then 12 (just for the final one). Felt pretty good, although I was a little gassed by the last one at 5-min pace.
Injury Watch: Some pain in left SI joint, so I need to get going on some core work.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| More treadmill miles with continued gross air outside. Watched a surf movie on Netflix to keep my mind off it.
Injury Report: Didn't notice any back pain yesterday after the run and didn't feel anything this morning. All appears to be well so far. Hoping to motivate myself to do some core tonight.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| I couldn't bring myself to run on the treadmill 3 days in a row, so instead I went skate skiing at Mtn. Dell (2 x Big Loop). It was amazing how much I felt the effort in my core and upper body after only about 10 days without skiing. Good reminder to try to balance my efforts a little more.
Injury Report: Other than feeling tired in my core and upper body, it felt great. Although the conditions were icy (around 18 degrees during my ski after hitting 40 yesterday, which can make the course a little treacherous in places), I didn't fall and felt pretty steady.
Inversion is supposed to last for several more days. Gross.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Easy loop around Holladay. Avg. pace of 7:15.
Injury report: SI joint is not hurting, but is a little tender.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| While at PCMC for Kaela's heart procedure (catheter ablation for AV nodal re-entrant tachycardia), I ran over to City Creek Canyon and back after they finished prepping for surgery and sent us on our way. (Procedure went perfectly and she was home by 5:30.) Red air quality day and I felt it.
Injury report: SI joint bugged me a little on the run and continued throughout the day. Ugh.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Worried about the SI joint issue, I decided to do a kettlebell workout in lieu of intervals this morning. Unfortunately, I threw my back out in the process. I'm guessing I already had some inflammation and that the kettlebell workout was the perfect catalyst for throwing my back into spasms. "Freakin' idiot!"
Injury report: I can barely walk today. Nice.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 54.62 | 4.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 59.62 |
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