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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
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Night Sleep Time: 24.00Nap Time: 14.50Total Sleep Time: 38.50Calories: 0.00
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Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50Calories: 0.00
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Felt really good again today.  Bench Lake Loop with extentions. really good pace 6:45.  Felt unstoppable today and it was great.  No soreness from saturday.

Guide: 405.5 

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8.5 today around town.  sort of a mild tempo run at about 6:15-6:20 pace.  Felt really good to get out a little faster and shorter today for a change.  I must be improving if I'm saying 8.5 is "shorter"...a few weeks ago that was my long run...yay!

Guide: 414.0 

Night Sleep Time: 4.50Nap Time: 1.50Total Sleep Time: 6.00Calories: 0.00
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Had a really good run today...10.5 miles out to LaVerkin and a small loop there and back.  6:40 average pace.  Another "unstoppable" day...I've been having a lot of those lately so I suppose that would be a good thing.  I've really been trying to work on my pace this week and average at or under 6:45 which is ballpark for what I want to do in the marathon come October.  I think it's done me good to go a little faster and get out of the 7:00-7:30 grind.  I've been feeling really good this week.  Hope to get some hills or a good fartlek or something going tomorrow to further work on my strength and speed.

Guide:  424.5   probably time to start budgeting for some new shoes...my knees are starting to feel it a bit. 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 2.00Total Sleep Time: 2.00Calories: 0.00
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7.5 counting warmup with Karl tonight.  It was nice to run with someone since I didn't get to go to the club run due to my best buddy flying in off his mission tonight.  But the run was great...we started out pretty relaxed around 6:30-6:40ish but then the last couple of miles turned into a tempo run and we were probably down around 6 min. pace.  That was good because I wanted a little bit of a hard workout today.   Felt really good and really strong.  

Guide: 432.0 

Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 3.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 0.00
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really tired today. I think this week's faster pace, high miles, failing shoes, and a few late nights and early mornings all conspired against me today, so I went ahead and took it easy in anticipation of tomorrow's loooonnnng run that I am planning. Hopefully I'll be able to get some good rest tonight and have a good day tomorrow.

Oh, and I've got some questions about the marathon (i'm running the st. george marathon on oct. 8th i believe), so if anyone has any tidbits they would like to share please feel free:

Question 1: when do I start doing "speed" work and how much of it do I do? what types of workouts are good? I don't know what the heck I'm doing as far as the marathon goes so I don't even know if you really do speed...it's probably definitely not what I, being a former miler/2 miler, would call speed so if you've got advice I'm open.

Question 2: How do I taper for the marathon? What kinds of workouts should I do while tapering? do I totally cut the miles or just ease off a little or what? I'm planning on peaking out at 80 mpw the first week of sept or before...is that too much too late?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Guide: 439.0


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woke up and felt like I got hit by a train.  ran 7.5 easy which I probably shouldn't have done...needless to say I couldn't handle a long run as intended.  Just got worse as the day went on and currently am running a high fever and it hurts to even move let alone walk or run.  Trying to drink a lot but sore throat is making that difficult.  I'm going to bed.  peace out y'all.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 6.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Calories: 0.00
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