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Riverton,UT,

Member Since:

Jun 19, 2006

Gender:

Male

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Local Elite

Short-Term Running Goals:

 2022 Running Goals:

Stay fit and healthy.  Run a decent Boston and St. George marathon.

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep fit and stay semi-competitive as long as I can.

 

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I have a wonderful wife and son and we live in Riverton/Herriman Utah. I am a high school teacher, and head coach for cross country and track at Mountain Ridge High. 

 

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Ran this evening, nice weather.  I guess it is the calm before the storm.

First track workout of the year.  I started out running the Lundstrom Park 4 mile loop backwards and then running over to the USU track.  I ran a warm-up lap on the track, so I ended up with over 4.5 miles of warm-up total. 

For my workout I did 4x800 meters with 400 meter cool down (and a drink out of the drinking fountain).  I had no idea how I would feel, but in the back of my mind I wanted to run sub 2:40s for the workout. 

 

  1. 2:37     I felt okay and tried not to take it out too fast.

 

  1. 2:40     I was almost too conservative on this interval.

 

  1. 2:38     I felt better than the second one, but the wind started to really pick up.

 

  1. 2:31     I stayed conservative on the first lap and opened it up a bit on the second

 

My cool down laps were almost identical in time to my intervals.

Not too bad of a workout for my first one in a year.  I cooled down by running one lap around the track then heading up 1000 North around Hillcrest and looping around the university.  I ran almost a 3 mile cool down, and a total run of over 10.2 miles.  I got done just before the Thunder storm rolled in.

1:14:39

 

 

(Adrenaline-66 miles)

 

 

Comments
From superfly on Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 20:46:37

Good workout James-

I have found those 800 repeats very effective in my marathon training. One of those workouts a week-increasing the amount of 8's every week. It builds some good speed and is short enough you can do quality effort every time. Keep up the good work. What's your next big race, next marathon?

From Superfly on Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 20:47:49

How did your dad do out in Boston?

From Clyde on Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 21:31:25

Clyde,

My Dad had a rough run! He said he was lucky to finish. He ran his slowest marathon by 1 hour. He was mainly doing it to do it, and as you know this year wasn't the best weather to go have some fun in.

I was very impressed with your Marathon on Monday, you ran Awesome! i have no doubt you will run sub 2:30 this year.

My next "big run" is next week's Striders 30k. I don't really know when I will do my first marathon, maybe not until fall, but I plan on doing some more racing in the near future, I just haven't figured out where yet. Who knows, maybe I'll feel like doing Odgen in a month.

From James on Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 21:38:41

OOPS! I put your name instead of mine!

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