| 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 | | 28.50 | 6.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 37.50 |
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| Kayano Blue Miles: 12.00 | Kayano Orange Miles: 25.50 |
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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 |
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Easy 6 to 27th South and back. Comfortable throughout. Only residual pain from Saturday's pacing activities was in my big toenails.
AHR 157. | |
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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 |
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Sugarhouse loop with Maya. AHR was 157 (which indicates an easy effort for me, even though the rate probably looks high). I switched up my schedule and will do speed work tomorrow morning. I had a 7 am school community council meeting and didn't have time for the whole speed routine.
Maya was really slow this morning from 3 miles on. I may let her run with Brooke exclusively from this point on (at least through my marathon training), because I feel like I'm abusing the poor dog as she drags behind me on the wrong end of the leash, and also because I don't like the sensation of pulling extra weight up the hill on my way home. She's a great running companion for Brooke and seems more comfortable at Brooke's pace, so I think my days of having her trip me the second she spots a sprinkler off in the distance (she's terrified of water and bolts when she sees it) may be over until the off-season.
AHR 157.
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| Kayano Orange Miles: 6.00 |
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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 |
| I woke up with some tightness in my left Achilles, so I decided to put off my speed workout until tomorrow and focus on stretching and doing my strengthening exercises instead. | |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Tightness in Achilles was gone, so I went ahead with my planned workout of 6x3-min repeats with 3 min rest between each, plus warmup and cooldown, all at Liberty Park. Unfortunately, my Garmin battery died in the middle of my warmup, so I had to guess on my repeats based on past workouts. I think I was reasonably accurate, but who knows? I felt stronger than the last time I did this workout two weeks ago, which is not hard, since I felt absolutely awful then. My guess is that my pace was between 5:30-5:45 for the repeats. I noticed very mild tightness in my right Achilles, but not at the insertion point where I've had problems with my left. Need to watch that and be more diligent about doing my stretches and strengthening exercises on both legs. |
| Kayano Orange Miles: 7.50 |
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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 |
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Easy run along Shoreline with Maya. Trail was packed with hikers and their dogs today. Maya is scared to death of other dogs, so the high number of off-leash pooches made things a little more interesting than usual. One of them almost took my legs out trying to get at Maya as we were coming off a steep hill, but fortunately we all avoided injury. Brooke has decided that Maya pulls her too much and that it's making her "a worse runner," so she doesn't want to run with her anymore. I can't take Maya on my hard workouts or anything longer than an easy 6 because she drags behind me, so I'm going to try to use my easy days to do more trail running. She loves trails and my pace is slower on them, so it works for both of us.
No Achilles pain at all today. AHR 159. | |
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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 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
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I headed up Emigration but didn't get out until 9:00 (had to wait for Brooke to return from her long run), so I competed with about a million cyclists and a couple of car/motorcycle clubs that seem to like the way their souped-up engine noise pierces the stillness of the canyon. Although the temperature felt hot (I should have brought water) and I was nearly rammed into the guardrail by a few novices in spandex, the run went relatively well. Splits on the descent were:
Mile 7: 5:41
Mile 8: 5:57
Mile 9: 5:52
Mile 10: 6:00
Mile 11: 5:52
Mile 12: 5:44
I was a little disappointed that the pace wasn't a little more consistent and a little faster, I can feel myself growing stronger. It's going to take some work, though, to make 5:40 feel sustainable for 26.2. Good thing I have all summer to devote to it. |
| Kayano Orange Miles: 12.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 28.50 | 6.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 37.50 |
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| Kayano Blue Miles: 12.00 | Kayano Orange Miles: 25.50 |
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