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Location:

Logan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Apr 27, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Region 9 Cross Country Champion 2004 (5K: 15:42)

400m: 00:54 (running start)

800m: 2:03 (7th place State Meet 2005)

1500m: 4:30 (2nd place Utah Summer Games 2004)

1600m: 4:31 (4th place State Meet 2005)

3000m: 9:55 (1st place Utah Summer Games 2004)

3200m: 9:52 (4th place State Meet 2005)

5K: 15:39 (2nd place Enterprise, UT Pioneer Days 2004

 

 

10K (very aided): 33:33.3 (8th place USG 2008)

15K:  53:04 (6th place Blacksmith Fork Freedom Run)

Half Marathon (very aided):  1:10:38 (5th place, Provo Halloween Half)

Marathon:  2:38:15 Top of Utah Marathon 2010 (6th Place Overall, 1st Local and 1st 19-24)

Won the 1st Annual Sand Hollow Marathon in 2:41:22

Ultramarathon:  Logan Peak Trail Race 2010:  28 miles, 7261 vert. 4:23:48 (2nd Place), El Vaquero Loco 50k 2011: 6:02 (2nd Place)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Go where the trail takes me.

 

Personal:

My hometown is Hurricane, UT but I currently live in Logan, UT where I attend Utah State University.  I am working on a PhD in Education, with an emphasis in Technology and Engineering Education.

You can also check out my blogspot running blog where I post race reports.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Type A2 Racers Lifetime Miles: 219.40
Brooks Cascadia 6 (Green) Lifetime Miles: 527.90
Brooks Launch (Orange/Yellow) Lifetime Miles: 250.40
Altra Lone Peak (Yellow/Gray) Lifetime Miles: 94.60
New Balance MT110 (Black) Lifetime Miles: 75.00
Altra Superior (Green) Lifetime Miles: 103.30
Brooks Cascadia 8 (Blue) Lifetime Miles: 185.10
Trail 2013 Lifetime Miles: 140.15
Road 2013 Lifetime Miles: 121.35
Altra Lone Peak B (Yellow/Gray) Lifetime Miles: 65.70
PI M2T (Orange/Blue/Grey) Lifetime Miles: 27.50
Trail Miles 2015 (Start May) Lifetime Miles: 64.00
Road Miles 2015 (Start May) Lifetime Miles: 31.50
Sat, Sep 20, 2008
Race: Top of Utah 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:17:32, Place overall: 3
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.003.1012.10

Hmmm... well, not gonna lie this race sucked really bad.  started out too fast first of all trying to hang onto Paul and Cody at least for a little while and ended up running the first mile way too hard (even though by time it shouldn't have been that bad) resulting in the last half of the race being absolutely terrible.  I need to quit getting so excited and thinking I am back in high school and starting out like I'm gonna run a 15:45.  Plus for some reason my mental toughness is down the toilet right now and I have a hard time forcing myself to go hard at it when I'm feeling like crap.  So I just need to work on that...a lot.  

 On the bright side I met Paul, Cody and Jon today and am going to start training with them as much as I can.  It will be good to have other people to run with and motivate me and all that good stuff.  Plus they are all marathon gurus and full of sage advice on how to run St. George which is great considering I don't really know what to expect from the marathon.  Anyway, I'm looking forward to some good times with them. Oh, and my Aggies absolutely DESTROYED Idaho today so that was a plus to the day too.  :)  now if they can just win another one somewhere...

Type A2 Racers:  15.5

Guide Orange:  169.1

 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Jon on Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:36:08

Nice job on the race today- we can relate to losing the high school speed and mentality (maybe that's why we do marathons- less speed needed!). It was nice meeting you yesterday- let me know when you want to train together.

From dave holt on Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:42:15

Good job - glad you got tied in with those guys up there, it's a good group. See you in a couple weeks.

From paul on Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 16:27:16

It was good meeting you. Don't worry about trying to immediately recapture where you were 3 years ago. If you train smart and hard for the next year, it will all come back, and then some. It's hard to be mentally tough in a 5K unless you are running them frequently. I have trouble with that myself, since I only run a couple 5K's a year.

From Dustin on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 16:10:00

Glad you were able to meet up with those Logan guys, like you said they have a lot of knowledge and should be a good group to train with.

From Predog on Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 00:55:26

hey thanks for the encouragement everyone. I guess everyone has a bad day once in awhile. But yeah I'm glad to have found people to run with up here...I was getting bored. It's always nice to have people to help you along. Dustin and Holt, I'll see y'all next weekend...well, for a little while before you are miles ahead of me. haha

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