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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I used to tease my dad that he didn't get into a rut, he got into a groove (he is a man of habit).  I guess I inherited that trait from him, because I seem to be in a groove of running the same route over and over and over.  U campus today without Maja.  Felt a little sluggish but nothing too bad.  I'm still feeling the SI joint pain.  It's not bad, but it's definitely still there.

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Kettle bell workout with James at Crossfit NRG. Dave wasn't available this week, so we were planning to skip a week, but I didn't want to go two weeks between workouts so I texted James to see if he could squeeze me in for an hour.  We worked mainly on two-arm swings and Turkish get-ups.  He worked on speeding up my two-arm swings (using an elastic band), doing more reps (we did multiple sets of 50 reps each) and focusing on "hips and grips" (need to remember to start engaging abs at top of swing to increase speed).  He also focused on a couple of the positions in the Turkish get-up and helped me get a little less awkward, particularly in the first step and in coming back down and bending over to put my hand back on the mat.  I was pretty fatigued by the end, but the motions were starting to feel better.

James is trying to persuade me to participate in the WOD (Workout of the Day) sessions.  I'm starting to warm to the idea, but I'm still a little nervous about making the jump from being the wimpy new guy working one-on-one with the personal trainer to the wimpy new guy who can't do half of the exercises involved in the WOD.  Probably time to start getting over myself.  We'll see if I can do it.

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