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Location:

Bountiful,Ut,USA

Member Since:

Sep 22, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

 

5k  18:44  4 July 2012 C-ville 
10K  38:22  24 July 2012 DesNews
Half  1:22:30  18 Aug 2012  Hobble 
Full  3:00:35  29 Sep 2012 Huntsville

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sign up for a race > 5k, run well.

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep on running. 

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Trails Lifetime Miles: 551.40
Grass Lifetime Miles: 72.50
Pavement Lifetime Miles: 2225.20
Stroller Lifetime Miles: 438.80
Navy Crocs Lifetime Miles: 378.70
Nordic Track TM Lifetime Miles: 1015.77
Green Mirage 2 Lifetime Miles: 494.70
Orange Mirage 3 Lifetime Miles: 514.90
Glow In The Dark Mirage 3 Lifetime Miles: 461.25
Navy Blue Mirage Lifetime Miles: 216.90
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
36.702.0038.70
Green Mirage Miles: 15.50Nordic Track TM Miles: 28.70While Mirage 2 Miles: 16.20Kinvara Miles: 7.00Pavement Miles: 10.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.500.008.50

These green shoes of mine are headed to the 700 mile mark.  I wore them in Boston last year, and wanted to wear them again.  8.5 on the TM.  I couldn't muster much speed.  Today's events are a bit of a sucker punch.  I feel bad for all the runners who worked so hard to reach the pinnacle of recreational running, only to have their accomplishment overshadowed (justly) by the actions of some craven individual(s).  Of course, my sorrow ratchets up an order of magnitude for those traumatized, injured and killed by the bombs.  What a weird day.

Green Mirage Miles: 8.50Nordic Track TM Miles: 8.50
Comments(4)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.200.006.20

Another treadmill 10k.  I don't know when I arbitrarily decided that runs under 6.2 miles were not worth doing.  2 @ 7 mph, then 4.2 @ 8 mph.  That's a fairly easy 7:30 pace.  I finished in time to stay up way too late watching dumb tv shows with my wife.  

No mission call for my son today; next week for sure.  Daughter finds out about class officer elections today.  There is all manner of baited breath around here.

While Mirage 2 Miles: 6.20Nordic Track TM Miles: 6.20
Comments(5)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.002.007.00

TM progression run.  1 @ 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5, 2.2 @ 9 and cooldown to 7.  10k time was 46:30.  I even had the incline at .5  Everything went well until my son came to get an explanation of police entrapment.  I breathlessly told him we'd have to talk about it later.

My appetite has been through the roof lately.   

I'm glad to see some Boston Marathon race reports.  It's a shame the way the bombing overshadows remarkable performances.  I'm glad the injury and death toll is as low as it is.  Obviously, it's horrifying for those who were maimed and killed, but just for sake of perspective, in 2010, the daily homicide rate was 44, and the daily suicide rate was 105.  I guess there's plenty of sadness and sorrow to go around, whether it coincides with a marathon or not.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm 

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm 

Kinvara Miles: 7.00Nordic Track TM Miles: 7.00
Comments(2)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.000.007.00

7 easy @ 7 mph.  This run felt like a poem.

Green Mirage Miles: 7.00Nordic Track TM Miles: 7.00
Comments(1)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.000.0010.00

Loop on Main to Glover, back on LPT and Parrish.  It was a bit moist.  I felt bad for the marathoners.  The temp was perfect for racing, but the humidity was probably a tad excessive.

Pavement Miles: 10.00While Mirage 2 Miles: 10.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
36.702.0038.70
Green Mirage Miles: 15.50Nordic Track TM Miles: 28.70While Mirage 2 Miles: 16.20Kinvara Miles: 7.00Pavement Miles: 10.00
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