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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Member Since:

Sep 25, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

All running accomplishments are Post Teenage Years:

17:06 5K--Murray 2014

16:58 5K (aided)--Running of the Leopards 2010

34:41--10K Deseret News 2018 (aided)

1:16--(aided) Hobble Creek Half 2009

2:43--St. George Marathon 2012

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 2:50 Ogden Marathon

Sub 17:00 at Draper 5K

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 2:40 Marathon

 

Personal:

Married to Elizabeth (she got me running in 2003). We have three boys, Lucas (12) , Sam (8) and Ollie (5).

Many years ago, I read that the AVERAGE male is capable of a 2:40 marathon.  I decided to test that theory.  I began running in 2003 with Top of Utah as my first marathon (4:24).  I need 3 more minutes.

"Life is short...running makes it seem longer."--Baron Hansen

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Wed, May 16, 2012
Total Distance
13.50

AM: 10 miles.  Highland High School track VO2 work-out early this morning.  6 x 800 with warm up and cool down.  Nice to run with some of the blogging crew this morning.  Its much easier to do track work-outs with people close to your speed rather than going solo.  Averaged 2:43 splits and felt great at the end.  

PM: 3.5 miles.  Gym for core.

Comments
From Jake K on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:47:45 from 155.100.226.54

Great workout Mark. Thanks for inviting us - I'm glad we got that workout done today and now can just chill and run easy for a couple days :-)

From allie on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:56:01 from 71.213.50.84

nice job this morning. thanks for letting us jump in with you guys.

From Andrea on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:59:09 from 72.37.171.52

Nice repeats today - sorry we were a little late. I needed 15 minutes of extra beauty sleep :)

After the workout, Allie and I decided this workout was better than running Tanner Park-Wasatch loop. Either we weren't running the repeats hard enough or the loop is really that bad with the fast guys!

From Tara on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 14:43:46 from 159.212.71.200

Hi Mark!

From MarkP on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 18:13:05 from 75.162.247.151

Thanks guys for running these with me. Let's do it again next week!

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