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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
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
61.005.0066.00
Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Blue) Miles: 66.00
Night Sleep Time: 49.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 49.00Calories: 0.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.600.008.60

Easy easy run.  Hammies are sore for some reason.  I guess they just got jealous of my quads and decided to join the party.  Going to cut the mileage down to 60 this week.  I love that 60 feels like a rest now.  It's great.  Best shape of my life.  Get all those little naggers healed before Logan Peak.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Blue) Miles: 8.60
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 0.00
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5.005.0010.00

Fun run today.  Did the Jardine Juniper trail with Jon and Cody.  Great trail for running.  I think it is now one of my favorites.  It was really good to run with Jon and Cody again after so long.  We took it easy on the way up and chatted about the coming Logan Peak race and other odds and ends and it was real nice to catch up on everything.  The tree itself was pretty cool...much bigger than I expected with only a little tuft of green at the top of an impossibly gnarled and twisted skeleton of a trunk.  Pretty neat sight.  The views from the trail are gorgeous as well.  I think I am going to have to actually hike it (Imagine that--hiking a trail! Who does that?) sometime very soon so that I can take it slow and enjoy the scenery some more.  Anyway, on the way back Jon told me I should take the lead and go fast and so we ended up averaging just under 6 min. miles the whole way down.  It was fun to just boom down the trail and not have to worry too much about tripping over stuff in most places.  Good run.  Good company.  Boosted my confidence on as the clock continues to wind down to LP.  I am getting really excited for this race!  Thanks for the run Jon and Cody.  Lets not let it be so long until next time.  

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Blue) Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 0.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.500.008.50

AM- 7.5 miles easy.  Canyon Road loop.  Got a good dose of the canyon wind coming down the hill into First Dam.  

PM-  Hiked the Jardine Juniper trail with one of my friends because I wanted to have a chance to take it in slowly and she wanted to hike it.  On the way back we got hit with a pretty good thunderstorm which was fun but we decided to run the last mile back to the car, so I got another mile there. 

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Blue) Miles: 8.50
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 0.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
12.800.0012.80

Today I felt like poo.  That's about the long and the short of it.  My hammies for some reason feel really sore.  Not sure why.  Oh well.  Also, I went and checked out the new specialty running store ("Runners North") by Macey's after doing my grocery shopping because I saw that they had an "open" sign out.  They were still waiting on a lot of product to come in so the shelves were pretty bare...not like I had money to spend anyway.   But the people seemed pretty friendly and helpful.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Blue) Miles: 12.80
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 0.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.100.003.10

Dear Logan weather,

I would very much like to put away my winter running clothes.  If you could please help me out in this endeavor by actually behaving like it is halfway through June, I would very much appreciate it.  Thanks.

Joe 

 

Didn't actually need any miles from a weekly mileage standpoint today, but I went out in the rain for a little bit anyway.  The loop I took ended up being exactly a 5K, so it will be nice to have that for time trials or something. 

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Blue) Miles: 3.10
Night Sleep Time: 9.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00Calories: 0.00
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23.000.0023.00

Final long run before Logan Peak.  Felt absolutely fantastic.  Ran to Wind Caves via the River Trail (again...I need to scout more long routes) with extensions to get the miles in.  Had a bit of excitement on the way back when I came round a corner just before SHC and found myself practically nose to nose with a moose.  Ok...so maybe it wasn't quite nose to nose, but after a few minutes of staring each other down he decided I wasn't actually a threat he came CLOSER until I could have reached out and poked him in the nose if I'd have wanted to.  I had definitely NOT decided that he wasn't a threat so I did no such thing.  After a few minutes of trying to get past him without getting myself into a spot where I couldn't run away quickly he started wandering up the trail the same way I was going.  I walked behind at a respectful distance until he left the trail so I could get past.  Cool experience, but it made me a little nervous.  He was BIG even though he couldn't have been much more than a yearling.  I was nervous because the whole time I was remembering my dad telling me about him getting charged by an angry momma moose when he was a Boy Scout and I was having visions of being mashed against a tree or something.  Anyway, interesting experience.  You don't have that happen every day.  

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Blue) Miles: 23.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 0.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
61.005.0066.00
Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Blue) Miles: 66.00
Night Sleep Time: 49.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 49.00Calories: 0.00
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