| Location: Salt Lake City, Member Since: Feb 11, 2010 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: I had some success in high school and college. Winner 1985 Rod Dixon Run
Had a fair amount of success as a Masters runner for most of my 40s. Short-Term Running Goals: Have fun with running, explore more trails, stay healthy. Long-Term Running Goals: Keep running and racing consistently for as long as I can. Find what is sustainable for me over the long run. Personal: I teach AP European History and other courses at Alta High School. I coached the track and cross country teams at Alta for 16 years.
Married, two kids - Abby and Andy
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| Miles: | This week: | 26.00 |
Month: | 81.25 |
Year: | 1690.95 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 168.99 | 14.60 | 17.04 | 0.00 | 200.63 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| AM: 10 leisurely miles at Liberty Park (8:47 average)
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
| Late AM: 14 miles on the Jordan River Parkway. 7:57 average.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Nothing but snow shoveling!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| PM: 8.5 miles around the neighborhood and Sugar House Park. 8:15 pace. A fair amount of slush, snow, and ice made for slippery going.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.25 |
| AM: Lots of push-ups and sit-ups. Lost track in my counting.
PM: 4.25 on the treadmill.
Shout out to my senator, Mitt Romney!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| PM: 4.25 miles on the treadmill and 4.25 miles on the stair thingy.
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Salt Lake Track Club Winter 10k (6.21 Miles) 00:41:25 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 6.21 | 0.00 | 10.21 |
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Ugh! Definitely my least enjoyable race since my 2 disasterous marathons in 2012. I love racing and after 40 plus years of it, I'm pretty good at assessing my capabilities beforehand. Usually I finish within a few seconds of whatever I think I can run. Usually I enjoy the competition. But not today.
Mile 1 - 6:06
Mile 2 - 6:22
Mile 3 - 6:27
Mile 4 - 6:37 (from this point on, I had no positive thoughts. Only negative self-talk)
Mile 5 - 6:49
Mile 6 - 7:28 ( walked twice. Gave up)
.2 - 1:37
Might not be ready to race a quality 10k yet. They're hard to fake. Probably should have gone out in 6:20.
Of well, they can't all be winners. I shall live to fight another day.
PM: 2 mile jog/1 mile walk.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| AM: 12 miles averaging 8:25. Legs were sore and stiff at the beginning but loosened up some. Beautiful day.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| PM: 7 miles leisurely.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.24 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.24 |
| Quick jog after work and then 3 hours shoveling snow with Jared Campbell (3 time Barkley finisher), Jake Krong, and Sandy White.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.25 |
| PM: 7.25 miles at Liberty Park.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.25 |
| AM: 1 mile around the block a couple times. Just for mental health.
Late AM: 2.5 mile walk around Sandy. Listening to The Warmth of Other Suns on Audible.
PM: 8.25 miles in 65 minutes on the treadmill.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| AM: 10 miles at 8:10 pace.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| PM: 8 miles of kinda hard cross training. Weights.
I had been lifting fairly consistently for the past year when I couldn't run consistently. I actually love strength training and think it's more importaant as you age. It's been on the back burner the past few weeks as I've worked to stabilize my running between 40 and 50 miles/week. Didn't want to overdo things and there's only so much time in the day. But I am going to try to squeeze in some lifting 2-3 days each week now while trying to get my running mileage into the low 50s. More likely it will look like about 40 mpw running, 10 cross training, and 2 days of weights. Hopefully that will be sustainable.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.25 |
| AM: 2 mile walk.
PM: 8.25 treadmill miles. Mostly 8 mph.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.25 |
| PM: Went to the Sugarhouse gym at rush hour which sucked. Ran 4.25 on the treadmill and did some lifting.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| PM: 8.5 on the treadmill. Mile 7 in 6:20.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 8 miles in the Dimple Dell Gully. Glorious!
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SLTC Winter 15k (9.32 Miles) 01:00:54, Place overall: 28, Place in age division: 2 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 9.33 | 0.00 | 13.33 |
| Better effort than the 10k a couple weeks ago by a longshot although I'm mildly disappointed at not breaking 60. I was at 29:30 at the turnaround and felt like I was maintaining on the way back. I didn't wear a watch though so I was just guessing.
Probably need more long runs to be as strong as I'd like to be in the final miles.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 in the Dimple Dell Gully. Lots of snow melt in the last 48 hours. Spring seems to be here.
PM: 3 mile walk with Andy to Starbucks and back. Were watching Crimson Tide now with Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. Andy loves Navy movies. They need to make more because we're running out of them. Ann just left for work. Abby wen't to Glacier National Park with two friends today and it was cool seeing the pictures.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| PM: 7.5 miles at Liberty Park.
Taking a day off tomorrow.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.25 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 8.25 |
| Hard getting a run in with conferences this week. Went to the gym at 7:30 after leaving work. Did 8.25 on the treadmill with 4 x 2/4 mile starting at 6:40 pace and working down to 6:20 pace on the last one.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.25 |
| AM: Easy run in the Dimple Dell Gully.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| 4.5 miles along the Clark Fork in Missoula, Montana. Sunny, mid-50s!
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Snow Joke Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:31:38, Place overall: 31, Place in age division: 5 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 13.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.10 |
| 6:55, 6:47, 6:54, 6:57, 6:46, 6:52, 7:26, 7:07, 7:21, 7:30, 7:09, 6:53, 6:38
I ran the Snow Joke half marathon in Seeley Lake Montana today. The course turned into an ice rink about halfway in and I was wearing the worst possible shoes. Finally returned to the plowed road with a mile to go and I was able to at least run one mile split in what was my goal for the whole race. Had I known about the course, I would have run the first 5 miles at 6:25 pace.
I did finish 5th in the 40-99 year old age group though. Imagine being the 93 year-old dude who finishes a half marathon and you're all fired up about winning your age group but then you lose to your grandson. Gotta love small town races!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 168.99 | 14.60 | 17.04 | 0.00 | 200.63 |
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