| 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 | | 31.47 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 36.47 |
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| DS Trainer 15A Miles: 10.00 | DS Trainer 15B Miles: 26.47 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| I missed my early run because I had to get in to the office to get a jump on a busy week (four loan and acquisition closings), but I brought my gear with me when I took Jacob to his end-of-season soccer party at the Northwest Community Center. Don't get me wrong, I love comp soccer parents and would like to spend all of my social time with them, but I decided to leave the scene for 40 minutes to sneak in my run. I wasn't sure where I'd run in the area (300 N 1300 W), so I just started jogging on the grass around the community center. Fortunately, within a quarter of a mile I ended up on the Jordan River Parkway Trail, which I took north to Rose Park Golf Course and back. There were some truly lovely sections along the opposite side of the river from the trail itself, complete with wood chips in one section and otherwise with nice dirt paths. It was so nice to have a flat trail to run on--we don't have a lot of that in my neck of the woods. The only bummer was that it rained pretty hard throughout the run, but I had come prepared with rain gear, so it wasn't bad at all.
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| DS Trainer 15A Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Since I ran last night, I decided not to chance it with speed work this morning and instead decided to move my Tuesday workout to Wednesday and my Thursday workout to Friday (which works better anyway, since my church assignment keeps me out late on Wednesdays and makes it hard to get up at 5:00 for speed work the next day). Easy loop through the U campus and back through Fort Douglas and Research Park. Maja was as excited as always until I let her out and she felt the rain on her back, at which point she tucked her tail and darted back into the house. It's always a little sad but comical to watch her wrestle with her greatest love (running) and greatest fear (rain) at the same time. As it did this morning, fear usually wins out. |
| DS Trainer 15B Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 4.07 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.07 |
| 1/2 mile repeats at Sugarhouse Park. The workout went like this: 1.85-mile easy warmup jog Repeat #1: 2:39 (5:20/mi) 2-min active rest Repeat #2: 2:39 (5:20/mi) 2-min active rest Repeat #3: 2:33 (5:07/mi) 2-min active rest Repeat #4: 2:45 (5:32/mi) (I paid for overdoing it on #3) 2-min active rest Repeat #5: 2:38 (5:18/mi) 2-min active rest Repeat #6: 2:43 (5:28/mi) I should note that it worked out just right so that 1,3 & 5 were all from the top of the hill at the northeast corner to the pond (including the downhill), and 2, 4 & 6 were all from the top of the hill at the southwest corner to just west of the Highland track (including the downhill), which is a slightly harder section. No climbing in either section. As I get more fit, I'll vary the starting points more so that I have to deal with climbing in the intervals. Given that this is only Week #2 in my training, I'm feeling pretty good about my progress thus far. I have hit a plateau in my weight loss, but I continue to eat healthy and think the remaining 9 lbs will probably just melt away slowly as my mileage increases throughout the summer. I may try to slip in some evening spins on the bike just to make sure my body understands that it's fueling for performance right now, and that it needs to shut down any impulse to store fat and burn muscle instead. Once I feel like my running base is solid enough, I will try to work in 2-3 evening jogs a week to supplement my mileage and keep trying to get down to that optimal racing weight (which I haven't seen since my junior year of HS 20 years ago).
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| DS Trainer 15B Miles: 7.07 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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After yesterday's effort, I felt sluggish and a little sore (mainly calves) today, but I also forgot to take my inhaler, which likely made a difference. Maja and I did the usual U Campus loop over the bridge. |
| DS Trainer 15A Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 4.40 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.40 |
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Hill repeats on 23rd East. I jogged over and measured the hill as part of my warmup, and it turns out to be a little longer than 1/4 mile, so I set the Garmin for 1/4-mile intervals with 1/4-mile rest and went for it, doing 8 repeats. I jogged back down between each repeat as my rest interval. My average pace ranged from 6:40/mi (the first one) to 5:50/mi (the last one), with most of them being in the 6:10-6:15 range. I clearly have work to do in this area, since in my last St. George race in '09, I feel like I lost hold of my goal on the uphill sections (beginning with mile 2 and then especially from Veyo to Diamond Valley). For my first hill workout in well over a year, though, I'm reasonably pleased. |
| DS Trainer 15B Miles: 6.40 |
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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 |
| U campus to Shoreline loop with Maja living it up off-leash on the trail sections. What a gorgeous day for a run! |
| DS Trainer 15B Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 31.47 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 36.47 |
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| DS Trainer 15A Miles: 10.00 | DS Trainer 15B Miles: 26.47 |
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