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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
22.500.500.500.000.000.000.0023.50
Vibram Five Fingers Miles: 4.00Kayano 15A Miles: 15.00Kayano 15B Miles: 4.50
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
3.000.500.500.000.000.000.004.00

Well, after a long hiatus from blogging and a crazy six months or so, I registered for Boston yesterday and decided it was time to rejoin the ranks.  I feel awful for everyone who tried to register yesterday but got shut out, either by technical problems (I ended up finding a link on Facebook via Twitter that got me in after the registration page failed) or due to the incredible speed with which the race filled up.  I'm sure there were plenty out there who saw qualifying as a once-in-a-lifetime achievement and found themselves among the dismayed throng who missed out.  That has to be a tough pill to swallow.

As for me, I decided to make use of a large grass field across from a client's office where I spend about half of my time.  I hadn't pulled out the VFFs for months (I had fun running in them for a while but found my feet feeling bruised after pounding around on the streets of SLC in them for a while) but figured the grass would be a good way to strengthen some stabilizing muscles without causing damage.  It was a short run but was highly enjoyable.  Gorgeous weather that won't last much longer.  I stretched longer than usual in an effort to minimize the inevitable soreness that attends minimalist running for me.

Vibram Five Fingers Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.000.000.000.005.00

Easy 5 with Maja across the U campus, past the new track (yippee!), over the Olympic bridge, and through Fort Douglas.  Calves were sore from the VFF workout yesterday, but not too bad.

Note: I haven't been tracking mileage on my Kayanos for months, but they are probably both up in the 400-mile range.  They still feel good, though, so I'll hold off on replacing them for now.  I think my VFF and Nike Free running earlier in the year may have helped modify my form to the point that I strike more in the mid-foot region now, and that could be one reason why the Kayanos aren't showing the same kind of wear I'm used to after 300 miles or so.

Kayano 15A Miles: 5.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
4.500.000.000.000.000.000.004.50

Easy 3 with Brooke, then went for a second loop on my own.  About a mile into the second loop, felt a shooting pain in the tendon between my Achilles and my calf on my right leg.  I stopped and stretched it for a minute, then jogged home slowly in hopes of not aggravating it.  I'm sure I went too far or too fast in the VFFs on Monday after having not trained in them for a long time.  I'll watch this and may take a day or two off.  You'd think I'd have known better.

Kayano 15B Miles: 4.50
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.000.000.000.0010.00

After taking two days off to make sure I didn't do further damage to my calves following Monday's VFF stupidity, I felt good enough to get back on the road.  Did the standard route up to Wasatch, across Parley's on the trail, and out to Millstream Lane and back.  Lower right calf was still tight but not painful.

Pace: 7:25

Kayano 15A Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
22.500.500.500.000.000.000.0023.50
Vibram Five Fingers Miles: 4.00Kayano 15A Miles: 15.00Kayano 15B Miles: 4.50
Weight: 0.00
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