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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
32.200.0032.20
Trails Miles: 4.00Pavement Miles: 11.20Navy Crocs Miles: 15.50Treadmill Miles: 9.00Stroller Miles: 7.20While Mirage 2 Miles: 7.20Nordic Track TM Miles: 8.00Green Mirage Miles: 5.50
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
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12 miles on the bike to review the course for the tri tomorrow.

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a.m. A mile plus of running around with my kids on their sprint tri. Both of them won in the 12-14 age divisions. Regrettably, the division was broken down as 18 and under. I'm really happy for both of them. The goody bag had registration cards for a 10k on Thanksgiving; Jens already paid for his own entry, and Grace asked me to sign her card. Good stuff.

In the p.m. We went to Freedom Hills for a Labor Day picnic following a day full of yard work and cleaning. Of course the switchbacks beckoned. I completed four with my left morton toe throbbing and my blistered right instep refilling. Afterward, I rooted around the valve boxes in the park and turned on some sprinklers to run through and play frisbee. Most of us got all the way wet. Jack got a few drops and didn't like it. He said quite a lot of stern gibberish, so I got him out of the wet zone. It was a great send off to summer vacation. 5 kids back to school all day tomorrow.

60/100

Trails Miles: 4.00Pavement Miles: 1.00Navy Crocs Miles: 1.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.500.006.50

It got dark, so I did 6 switchback equivalents on the treadmill. 10% incline, 6 mph for 5 minutes. After each one I ran around my .5 mile block for "recovery". It was hot and sweaty in the basement, much more cool and windy outside.

66/100

Treadmill Miles: 3.50Pavement Miles: 3.00Navy Crocs Miles: 6.50
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.200.007.20

8 p.m.  Jack was sad, so I got him out of his crib and we delivered a few bills.  He stayed awake till mile four, but was very quiet.  I would ask,  "Jack, are you still awake?"  He would answer me in his guttural, glottal talk, and we'd visit for a while.  He went to sleep nicely when we returned home, thank goodness.  I hate listening to the baby "cry it out".  

I barely kept going after I got the bills dropped off, one mile in.  I felt SO sluggish.  I've been staying up late watching baseball, and it caught up to me.  I promised myself a big chocolate shake if I endured the run.   I must be in full marathon mode, because by mile 4 or 5  things felt pretty good.  It's weird how it can take so long to warm up.

No switchbacks.  :( 

Pavement Miles: 7.20Stroller Miles: 7.20While Mirage 2 Miles: 7.20
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.5 mile warmup, 6 switchback equivalents, 1.5 mile cool down.  

72/100 

Navy Crocs Miles: 8.00Nordic Track TM Miles: 8.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.500.005.50

Due to a last minute camping trip, I missed going long Saturday morning.  After spending the day working around the house, I knew I needed to get some work in, so off to Freedom Hills, just after sunset.  I knew the darkness would limit my number, but I can't fall behind.  On the third trip down the switchback trail, I rolled my rt ankle so far that I felt it up to my knee.  I'm lucky I'm small, and don't put that much weight.  I foolishly persisted, and did two more, descending much more slowly and carefully.  There's a certain spot on the trail where I heard some critter hissing at me each time I went by.  By the 7th time by, I decided it was some reedy plant scraping on a rock in the wind.  But it hissed at me on my final climb; I remain unsure what the noise is.  In any case, I was glad to finish.  Afterward, I went and got scraped around the tennis court by my son.  He's quite a player, whereas I haven't played much tennis.  It's too much like pulling weeds; most of what you do is pick green things off the ground.  Good times, though.

77/100.

Treadmill Miles: 5.50Green Mirage Miles: 5.50
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
32.200.0032.20
Trails Miles: 4.00Pavement Miles: 11.20Navy Crocs Miles: 15.50Treadmill Miles: 9.00Stroller Miles: 7.20While Mirage 2 Miles: 7.20Nordic Track TM Miles: 8.00Green Mirage Miles: 5.50
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