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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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Sat, Jun 21, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
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Wasatch Back Relay Leg 23 at 3:20 am. Pushed a good, steady pace from start to finish. Picked up guy from Fazoli's team in Mile 2 only to have him catch right back up. We ran together for about 1.5 miles until he told me he had to drop. Invigorating run in perfect weather (about 50 degrees). Felt good about pace, given that I haven't started doing any speedwork yet.

AHR/MHR: 173/179

Wasatch Back Relay Leg 35 at 11:23 am. Splits were 6:52 (uphill), 5:14, 5:49, 7:48 (steep uphill section), 5:51, 6:01, 5:41. Quads were destroyed after mile 2--I haven't done any downhill training yet and need to get them back into condition. Started feeling a pebble in heel of left shoe in mile 2. Got progressively more painful until I felt it rupture in mile 6. When I finished, I took my shoe off to find the worst blister I've ever seen. Probably about the size of 2 silver dollars and the calloused skin was torn back and compressed so badly that I couldn't save it. I'm worried about how long it will take to heal.  Felt like I left it all on the course, which was good.

AHR/MHR: forgot to wear HR monitor, but I'm guessing average was around 180 and max was around 188.

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Comments
From Andy on Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 22:47:32

I had the same legs and it looks like we had very similar (albeit mine was a little slower) experiences on each of the legs. The steep uphill on leg 35 was a killer.

From Jed on Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:38:34

I'm with you--I had no idea that there was going to be any upill on leg 35, so it was an unkind surprise. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who got beat up by it!

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