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January 2024

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Location:

Greenville,SC,

Member Since:

Feb 24, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I also maintain a blogspot running blog. Check it out. 

5k- 16:01, 1/2 marathon- 1:11:37, marathon- 2:34:16, 50k- 3:58, 100 mile- 15:19

Former World Record holder in 100 x 5k relay 

Ultra history:

8-100 mile, 1-100k, 9-50 mile, 2-40 mile, 14-50k-ish

12 wins, 5 CR's, plus four 2nd, five 3rd, 4th, 4th, 5th, 5th, 9th, 16th, 20th, 28th, 38th, and 62nd place, with 1 DNF 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Goals 

Enjoy running, stay fit (and maybe lose a few pounds). Play ultimate frisbee.

4 year coach of Langston Middle School- love it

Long-Term Running Goals:

Unretire at some point

Run a sub-6 hr 50 miler

Win a 100 mile ultramarathon

Personal:

I have five cute kids. And I have some rockin short green racing shorts- I wear them mainly because it embarrasses my wife so much. I like ultimate frisbee, trail running, reading, and cheering for the Denver Broncos!   And I have the absolute best wife in the world.  And I used to run for the now-disbanded national Team Pearl Izumi- Ultra!

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Miles:This week: 5.00 Month: 8.00 Year: 479.50
Fastwitch Lifetime Miles: 82.50
Trail N1 Lifetime Miles: 86.50
Road N1 Lifetime Miles: 31.00
Trail M2 Lime/black Lifetime Miles: 299.00
Road M3 Grey And Yellow Lifetime Miles: 324.00
Road N2 Purple 2 Lifetime Miles: 222.50
Road N2 4 Grey Lifetime Miles: 86.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
131.000.000.000.00348.50479.50
Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 49.50Trail M2 Lime/black Miles: 2.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Had a bit of an adventure the past few weeks including an ER visit and hospital stay due to some chest pains for several days right at my heart. After much testing, no heart-related cause was found. First frisbee game of the year today- 5v4, with everyone playing all game, I was on the smaller team. We battled hard, both teams had lots of chances, and my team won 5-4 in the end. Fun times.

Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Rob Murphy on Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 05:54:13 from 76.149.134.98

So what was it? Heartburn?

From jtshad on Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 06:44:29 from 141.221.191.225

Hope you can find out the issue.

From Jon on Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 06:49:45 from 99.63.224.99

Never found a cause. Not heart attack/blockage. Not blood clot. Not digestive track. Possibly just stress/anxiety related?

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

13 people at frisbee on a chilly, breezy day. Other team had sub. My team won 5-3. My achilles really hurt and limited my running- I should not play twice in a week, but it's hard to not as we rarely do and it's one of the highlights of my week.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.006.006.00

elliptical

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

same

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

frisbee. my team won 5-2 with 10 people playing. fun times

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.002.002.00

went to gym with daughter as she did short run

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

3 xt

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Rain later in the week so played frisbee today. 5v5. Played to 7 instead of 5 points. Good game- pretty well played on both sides. I collided with a teammate, knocking her down and earning myself a hard finger into the eye. My team won 7-6.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.006.006.00

xt

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

14 people at frisbee. We lost 5-2 then won 2-1.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

xt

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.006.006.00

hour elliptical

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.006.006.00

elliptical, plus physical therapy

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

6v6 frisbee. Even games. My team won 5-4 then 3-1. One guy was injured- felt something pop in his foot and was not able to put any weight on it or bring it up (adduction). Seems bad- maybe a popped tendon???

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

xt and rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Nice day for frisbee, sunny and 60, a little breeze. 5v5 then one guy got injured (felt something pop in upper calf, went down immediately) so we did 4v4. My team won 5-3. We've had bad luck with 2 major non-contact injuries this week.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

XT

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.000.000.000.000.001.00

no workout yesterday, just leg rehab. Tried frisbee today- there were only 6-7 of us so played on small field. I had awkward step which twisted my bad foot in the way to really hurt my recovering Achilles, so I sat out after that. May have really set myself back. Nuts.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.001.001.00

xt

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

elliptical and achilles rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

3

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.006.006.00

6

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

3

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

3

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

3

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.000.000.000.004.005.00

elliptical, rehab, and even my first run in a while. Only .5 miles plus some walking (I'm supposed to build up in 5 min increments). 

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 1.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

elliptical and rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.000.000.000.000.001.00

walk 5 min, run 5 min, x2

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 1.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.500.000.000.003.004.50

some elliptical, then 3 5 min runs with walks in between. Ramping up.

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 1.50
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

No workout yesterday but did coach first track meet of the year even though raining. Today did some rehab.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.500.000.000.003.004.50

Some running, rehab, elliptical

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 1.50
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.006.006.00

elliptical with 1 minute intense intervals, 2 min easy. Then an hour rehab.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.002.002.00

XT and rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.000.000.003.005.00

ran 2 miles, elliptical. longest run since Oct. Slowly building up.

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 2.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.001.001.00

Rehab today. The PT gave me clean bill, cancelled remaining appointments, and said I should keep slowly adding load.

Middle School championship track meet tonight. Boys got 4th in Conference, girls won! This is oly the second year of track in our conference, and our girls have won both years. We only had 5-6 practices, and we don't even have a track to practice on, so I think that's pretty good. Having never run hurdles or done long jump or high jump, we had kids win some of those. Cool.

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Comments
From jtshad on Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 06:49:43 from 75.174.8.255

Congrats to all your runners!

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.500.000.000.000.002.50

5x 5 min walk, 5 min run

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 2.50
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.001.004.00

elliptical warmup, then 6x 5 min walk, 5 min run. 3 miles is my longest run in a while. I hope to keep slowly building up.

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 3.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.002.002.00

rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.500.000.000.003.004.50

some elliptical, 3x run

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 1.50
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.002.002.00

rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.006.006.00

Achilles still not happy with me for hiking Chimney Rock last Thursday, but I did elliptical today. I'm bummed about how much a single hike aggravated my injury.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

elliptical and some rehab, but had to stop early cause insurance inspector showed up 30 min early at my house. 

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.500.000.000.003.004.50

elliptical, 15 min run

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.001.001.00

yoga, elliptical, then my rehab exercises

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.000.000.001.003.00

some elliptical, a bit of running

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

elliptial and an hour rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Longest run since June- 4 miles or more. And instead of alternating 5 min walk, 5 run, I did 10 min of each, so I was running miles without rest. Hopefully my Achilles isn't too unhappy tomorrow.

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

elliptical and an hour rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

decided it is finally time to try frisbee again, after 2 months away. Went easy, minimal cuts or hard runs. Felt ok after, groin was more sore than achilles. 5v5, my team won 5-2 (after trailing 1-2), then won 3-2.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

a bit of elliptical before heading home to watch the eclipse

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

elliptical and some rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.000.000.003.005.00

elliptical and 4x 5 min run

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.006.006.00

6

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

3

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.003.007.00

30 min elliptical, 4x 10 min run/walk. Watched the second half of Boston marathon.

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.001.001.00

elliptical warmup then rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.000.000.00

My wife is out of town for 9 days so I'm pulling Mr Mom to all 5 kids while trying to work full time. Extra stress pushed me too far, presumably, so I started feeling sick on Tuesday and very sick Wednesday. Feeling partly better now so hopefully will be able to work out some tomorrow.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

rehab and elliptical

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.006.006.00

wasn't feeling great. I think I did an hour elliptical. I don't remember.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

elliptical, rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.003.006.00

elliptical, then 6x 5 min run, 5 min walk

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.001.501.50

a few min elliptical, hour rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

first frisbee in a while. 4v4, which is tough (lots of running). My team was down 1-3 then scored 4 straight for 5-3 win. Then we lost 0-2.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

Didn't get any workouts this week cause of work conflict. Finally played frisbee today, a ton of people- 18. I hate 7v7 with lots of subs. My team won 5-2, then were up 2-0 but lost 2-3.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.005.005.00

First day of XC tryout cancelled due to thunderstorms. Went to gym later instead.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.000.000.000.000.001.00

First day of cross country tryouts. Did about a mile

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 1.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

elliptical

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

A little elliptical and some achilles rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

15 people for frisbee. Other team had sub. My team turned it over early so other team scored first. Then we traded points till we were down 2-3, having never led. Then we scored 3 straight for the win. It was somewhat windy and other team was faster and doing a zone defence, so I'm happy with the W.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.000.000.00

Been a busy few days. No time for workout. At state qualifier track meet- my freshman missed qualifying for state by 4 seconds in the 1600, but did PR by 7 seconds. She did the risky strategy of starting very slow, trailing everyong by 4 seconds at 400m and 5 seconds at 800m. She slowly gained on the slower runners then kicked very hard with 300m to go, moving from dead last to 4th place in 200 m. However, she was in the slower heat and missed advancing by 2 places. She was excited with the new strategy and big PR, though. At the start of the season, she ran 6:25, and ran 5:34 today.

Her distance team is very good. They have the fastest time at 4x8 in the state (9:29) and have 5 distance girls going to state championship.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

Just a little time for workout today

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.000.000.000.001.002.00

Cross Country tryout time trial. Got in a mile setting up the cones. Thunderstorms had been predicted for days but held off at the last minute. We aren't cutting any kids this year, which is nice. 45 runners on the team. There's only 450 kids in the entire school, so we are at 10% of the student body this year. If my kids' high school had similar numbers, there would be 250 on the cross country team.

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 1.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Frisbee. Had a 30 min lightning/rain storm delay. 4v4, other team had sub. My team won 5-3. For second game, the other team played all 5. We had a chance to score on last point but had bad pass. We lost 2-3.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

elliptical and rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.000.000.00

At father-son campout so didn't make the trek to state. My daughter attended as the first alternate for the 4x8 team. She didn't need to run in the end. The team did amazing, winning the race by a second (including a 30m comeback in the last 300m), plus setting the all-time girls state record (9:21). Great job! The girls team took 3rd overall (despite having 0 sprinters in the meet), with other girls scoring in the 800 and 3200. Only one girl is a senior, so hopefully the XC and track teams will be amazing next year.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.000.000.003.005.00

elliptical and run

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 2.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

First really hot/humid day. 4v4 with my team having sub. Back and forth, my team lost 4-5. Now home to watch Survivor finale (it's the only show I watch)

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

GE family fun run day, supposedly a 6k. My 3 youngest came. I ran with my 9 year old, she is the fastest but started feeling hot/sick (it was hot/humid) so we only did 3 miles. The other two did the whole course of 3.7. Hope my Achilles isn't too unhappy tomorrow.

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 3.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.002.002.00

rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.000.000.000.003.004.00

bit of everything

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 1.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.004.004.00

Camping Mon-Wed this week with a fair amount of hiking. Today was first day at gym. Elliptical and achilles rehab.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.003.006.00

elliptical and run

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 3.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.001.001.00

elliptical and rehab. Achilles feeling terrible.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.004.004.00

elliptical

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.002.002.00

rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.000.000.003.005.00

elliptical and run

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 2.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

5v5 frisbee. My team had a speed advantage but still had the very rare shutout win, 5-0.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.000.000.003.005.00

some of everything

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 2.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Pretty hot and humid for frisbee. Bunch of new folks, 7v7. My team won 5-4.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.001.001.00

a bit of elliptical and some rehab. Knee and achilles both feeling bad.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

did a class at the gym plus some elliptical

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Comments
From Jason D on Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 20:44:39 from 73.161.42.48

Happy Fathers' Day, Jon.

Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.006.006.00

elliptical

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.002.002.00

rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

hot day, 6v6. kind of windy. My team had 2 new people who weren't good. Unsurprisingly, we lost 2-5.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.002.002.00

elliptical and rehab

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.000.000.000.002.00

Finished 3+ week trip yesterday. Didn't work out at all. Took 2 kids to local low-key track meet on hot (95 deg) humid day. I hopped in the 1 mile and 800. Hoped for 9 min mile, ran very consistent laps to finish 7:56. Then 3:29 800. Man, I'm slow these days.

Road N2 4 Grey Miles: 2.00
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

frisbee. 4v4, other team had a sub which really hurt my team (we were so tired by the end). Hot and humid but overcast. We did little game first, we won 3-1. Then lost 3-5 though had some big misses (I had a few bad throws). We were so tired by the end.

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.004.004.00

elliptical

Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.000.000.000.003.003.00

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elliptical and 1 mile run to test my painful foot

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elliptical while watching the olympics. Some of my favorites are the canoe and kayak slalom, mountain bike, swimming, volleyball, and many others. Looking forward to BMX racing, track running, and especially kayak cross.

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elliptical. Had a cross country practice today, run by a parent. It was high 90's and humid. Blah. School starts in a week, and XC on Aug 12. This is my 5th year coaching. 

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elliptical and weights

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3 miles walking while watching olympics

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3 on some nice mountain bike trails with the XC team. Body generally felt ok.

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I was going to run or play ultimate, but daughter's car got hit so had to go home to take care of that

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hour elliptical

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just watched olympics marathon, now going to work out. I knew Connor Mantz when he was a pre-teen in Logan. He was amazing even then (not faster than me at the time, but he was 12)

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elliptical and killer arm weight class. Going to have sore shoulders and arms tomorrow

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did elliptical and lunch, then some running during XC practice.

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Ran around a bunch at XC practice

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xc practice

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Finally got a quick workout at the gym before it closed. It's been a super busy few weeks- I generally leave to teach seminary at 6:15 am, go right to work, and have not been finishing work till 5 pm or later. Then it's XC practice from 6 till 8:30 pm. Then home, prepare for next XC practice and seminary lesson, spend a few minutes with kids. Work has been very, very busy, too, so don't have any free time.

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decided to play frisbee. 5v5, my team had sub. We trailed 4-6 but had 3 point comeback for 7-6 victory. I played well, especially considering I haven't played in a while- no drops, I don't think I threw any bad passes.

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Just like last time I played frisbee, my left foot hurts on top afterwards. No workout today. I did go to the location of the XC race I host to make sure the route is still good and try to modify the start/finish location, which were not ideal. However, I found there's construction of a huge building at the 1/2 mile mark so that portion of trail is completely gone. I'll need a major re-route now. This is going to take extra time I was not planning on, but at least I have 3.5 weeks till the race.

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a little running during XC practice

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Another week of minimal time to workout. Leave for seminary 6:15 am, straight to work. Normally I can find 1-2 hours at work or during lunch to get in a workout, but we've been swamped lately so that's not happening. Then home and straight to cross country practice. I run when I can with the team, but we're usually doing activities that require me to be with some of the kids, not running myself. Home at 8:30 pm. Then eat dinner, spend a few minutes with my kids and wife, plan seminary and cross country lessons for the next day, and get a very late bed time. 

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finally made it to gym, elliptical and lifting.

my high school runner has shin splints. They've been getting worse for several weeks but she's been afraid to tell her coach. I guess she's learning a lesson as now she'll have to not run for a bit

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no running. My high school runner has shin splints so I took her to pool and taught her how to aqua jog. Later, I took my bike and figured out a new cross country course for the race I host in 2 weeks- did about 7+ miles riding.

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30 min elliptical. First XC meet of the year today. Went well. 

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From jtshad on Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 06:16:33 from 141.221.191.225

Glad to hear the meet went well.

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elliptical and upper body weights

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elliptical then some running at XC practice

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weights and a bit of elliptical

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Lots of running while coaching XC race today

Solid hour aqua jogging in the evening

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upper body strength class

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elliptical.

Something's wrong with my left knee. Got doc visit in a month to take a gander.

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a bunch of biking the race course for next week

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hard aqua jogging with my daughter

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ton of biking and walking/running around, getting course ready for meet tomorrow

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tons of running/walking around. We normally cross a creek but I had to reroute due to excessive rain, so that added an hour of extra work. Race went well.

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lots of running at XC practice during the indian run

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not much running at XC practice. We did have one of the boys throw or kick another boy's shoe on the roof of the school, so a dad drove 45 min round trip to bring an extention ladder, which I then climbed to get the shoe. Typical middle school boys.

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Nothing. Hurricane wiped us out- lost power for several days, so many downed trees, blocked roads, floods, etc. It's definitely the worst storm impacts I've seen in 14 years in SC, and that's saying something. 

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From jtshad on Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 06:46:12 from 141.221.191.222

Hope you and your community are ok and can recover quickly.

From Rob Murphy on Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 14:16:49 from 67.177.53.132

Move to Utah. We are natural disaster free unless that Yellowstone volcano blows.

From Rob Murphy on Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 14:18:21 from 67.177.53.132

Hope your house is ok.

From Tom K on Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 15:13:04 from 47.206.202.65

It was a bad storm, for sure. Most folks down here had a "Well, it won't be as bad as Hurricane Ian" attitude. I don't think we took it seriously. But nearly every barrier island on the gulf coast, from Naples to the panhandle was covered in water. It looks like your area took a bigger beating than Florida. We got all the storm surge. You got all the rain, it seems.

From Jon on Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 18:24:06 from 99.63.224.99

Our house is ok. We got 8 inches of rain is all. Lots of downed trees in the area- I was helping clear roads today. One had 50 trees down in 400 yards. It was nuts. Lots of damaged houses.

The real damage seems to be in the mountains of NC, from what I hear. The news says they received 24-30 inches of rain. That's crazy.

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Gym got power today, so went with Aspen so she could work out. I did 1:10 elliptical

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gym elliptical, then some running at XC practice

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strength class

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.5 mile at practice. legs sore from lifting yesterday

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spent all weekend doing hurricane cleanup service. lots of tree cutting and moving

was at gym on elliptical today when my daughter called that the car wouldn't start. had to go rescue. dead battery

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lunch- strength class at gym

PM- XC conference championship. Boys won, only 4 points ahead of second place. Girls were second. In my 5 years coaching, we've placed first or second each year at the championship (out of ~10 teams). We have a super talented 7th grade girl- in fact, she was faster than any of our boys today. 2 miles in 11:12 for her. 

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strength class. Think I also did some elliptical Mon/Tue but forgot how much.

Wife and oldest are making a college tour for the next 6 days in Utah. So I'll be working full time and also covering mom duties. Plus we'll be doing more tree work this weekend. Should be fun.

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From Rob Murphy on Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 13:59:44 from 67.177.53.132

Utah has the best colleges!

From Jon on Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 20:30:19 from 99.63.224.99

Between BYU and in-state tuition for USU (mother is alumni), they are certainly much cheaper than anything in SC. Clemson and SC are both very expensive relatively.

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Busy week with my wife and oldest daughter gone, plus I was in a kaizen for 40+ hours at work this week, so really didn't have time to work out. Finally made it to gym during lunch on Friday for a little elliptical plus to start my rehab workouts for my knee.

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knee work and elliptical

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elliptical for a few minutes, then rehab stuff

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