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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DS Racer Lifetime Miles: 72.98
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Wed, Aug 17, 2011
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
5.500.004.500.000.000.000.0010.00

10x1/2-mile repeats at Sugarhouse with 2 min active recovery between each (down from 3 min in past workouts).  Usual warmup and cooldown.  Splits looked like this:

1: 2:33 (5:07/mi) (AHR 160/MHR 170)

2: 2:37 (5:15/mi) (174/178)

3: 2:31 (5:01/mi) (173/178)

4: 2:38 (5:17/mi) (175/180)

5: 2:27 (4:53/mi) (175/181)

6: 2:32 (5:06/mi) (178/181)

7: 2:31 (5:01/mi) (175/179)

8: 2:39 (5:20/mi) (175/180)

9: 2:30 (5:00/mi) (175/178)

10: 2:35 (5:10/mi) (178/181)

I was pleased with the workout.  It was comfortably hard but never painful. I didn't have any back pain until the last couple of repeats.  I need to keep rolling on tennis balls and stretching more.  I've also started bringing my ice pack to work so that I can at least get a little help that way.  All in all, my confidence level is much higher today than it was over the weekend, when I was concerned that the back issue could derail my SG plans.  At this point, I think it's going to be manageable, as long as I stay on top of it.

DS Racer Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
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