A Lean and Hungry Look

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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.

"Julius Caesar," Act I, scene 2, 190-95

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Kayano Blue Lifetime Miles: 352.51
Kayano Orange Lifetime Miles: 413.88
DS Trainer Lifetime Miles: 259.32
Nike Free Lifetime Miles: 164.78
Kayano Red Lifetime Miles: 371.34
Kayano 15A Lifetime Miles: 310.02
Kayano 15B Lifetime Miles: 340.36
Vibram Five Fingers Lifetime Miles: 66.50
DS Trainer 15A Lifetime Miles: 310.92
DS Trainer 15B Lifetime Miles: 297.94
DS Trainer 16C Lifetime Miles: 308.08
DS Trainer 16D Lifetime Miles: 207.49
DS Racer Lifetime Miles: 72.98
DS Trainer 16E Lifetime Miles: 66.73
DS Trainer 16F Lifetime Miles: 48.80
Fri, Feb 05, 2010
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
5.500.000.000.000.000.000.005.50

I slept in until 5:50, strapped on the VFFs (I'm down to about 30 seconds per foot now), leashed up Maja and headed down to Jake's, where I found a quiet house with all the lights off.  As a result, Maja and I padded off on our own for an easy and relaxing 5 1/2.  Since most of the snow is gone, I ran on the park strip along most of 19th East and wherever the surface was level and where the grass hadn't been replaced with rocks or other xeriscaping.  My calves felt fine and my gait was comfortable.  The only thing that bothers me in the VFFs is the feeling that the ball of my foot is getting slightly bruised.  I assume that improves over time.

Vibram Five Fingers Miles: 5.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From RivertonPaul on Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 16:01:18 from 67.42.27.114

I couldn't get the VFF on when I tried in the store the one time I was checking them out. (Of course, I lost patience as it was only for fun.)

From Jed on Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 17:46:23 from 207.173.78.2

The first couple of times I put them on, it was five minutes per foot. I almost gave up trying to get them on at Wasatch Running until Darrell told me that most people have trouble at first. Now that I've had them for a few weeks and worn them around a bit in addition to running in them a few times, they aren't bad at all (and I have pinky toes that never knew they had an existence separate and apart from their 4th-toe neighbors). The bad part about them is that I feel like I just went out and bought a pair of Girbaud jeans about a year after they became cool (I hate jumping on bandwagons but seem to do it anyway), but the good part is that it's pretty fun to run in them.

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