| 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: | 4.00 |
Month: | 150.25 |
Year: | 1432.39 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 231.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 233.75 |
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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 |
| 8.25 miles on the treadmill.
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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: 1.25 miles around the UVU track. Track meet day.
PM: 8 miles around Liberty Park. 7:45 pace.
Picked up a book at Barnes and Noble after called Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands. My Spring Break reading.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| I ran 4 easy miles in the Salt Lake Cemetary while Andy was at baseball practice in the park adjacent.
As I was running past the grave of John Taylor, 3rd president of the LDS Church which is big in these parts, I saw a herd of 12 deer hanging around his marker. They were eating the flowers people had placed around his grave. They weren't the least bit afraid of me either.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.25 |
| 15.25 miles in City Creek Canyon at about 8:20 pace. I'd say about 60% trail and 40% on the canyon road. I saw 7 elk in the canyon just to the west of the water plant. A first!
Heading over to Andy's school now to have lunch with him. Spring Break staycation.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| 11 miles up Rattlesnake Gulch (no rattlesnakes today) to the Pipeline Trail and back. I took a couple detours up the Grandeur Peak trails just to check them out.
9:35 pace. Stopped a couple times to appreciate the stunning nature of Utah. I also stopped a couple times to do pull ups from tree branches and to hoist big rocks because I read in Outside that Max King does that on his runs.
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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: 3 mile walk to Andys school and around the neighborhood with Ann. More later but I'm feeling a little achy.
PM: 4.25 miles around Liberty Park. Easy.
PPM: 2 more walking miles after dinner.
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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 |
| 8.25 miles, 20 stadiums, 6 x 100 yard barefoot striders, hot tub, shower.
Heading out to Goblin Valley, Torrey, Capitol Reef for a long weekend.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| 9.5 miles out-and-back on "BLM Trail 849" along the San Rafael Swell here in Utah. 8:49 pace.
Hiking around Goblin Valley State Park after. Chillin with an IPA watching Sponge Bob at the posh Broken Spur Motel in Torrey now.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.50 |
| Definitely a top 10 run today. We drove to Capitol Reef NP after breakfast and then south on this whasboard-like dirt road along the east side of the park until we got to the Burr Trail. Abby and I ran up and down the Burr Trail Switchbacks. Stunning! Something you have to see to believe. Abby called it a day after about 5 miles and joined Ann and Andy on their hiking/exploring with Andy making as much noise as possible making echoes in the canyons. I felt sorry for anyone who might have been out there seeking quiet and solitude.
I continued west to the Upper Muley Twist Canyon trailhead which is 6 miles out and back and things just kept getting better. Beautiful trail and very runnable. I was able to average around 8:10 pace through here running comfortably and even dipped under 8 for a couple miles. Then I doubled back to the Burr Trail where Ann and the kids picked me up.
We drove to Boulder to eat at the Hell's Backbone Grill but didn't because it was closed. So we ate at the Burr Trail Grill instead. Burger, fries, Cutthroat, apple pie.
After lunch/dinner we drove back to Torrey on Highway 12 through a torrential hailstorm. It lasted about 20 minutes and was a little scary on that already challenging road.
Relaxing at the Broken Spur now. Ann and the kids are out getting popcorn and taking pictures with cows.
Big thanks to Jake and Amiee for pointing me in the direction of some great routes and trails this weekend. I generally followed them and found a couple of my own.
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| Rest day. We did a 4 mile hike on the Chimney Rock Trail in Capitol Reef before almost starving to death on the drive home.
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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 |
| 8.25 treadmill miles. Some pretty fast.
Later...3 mile walk with my boy Andy. He's a good kid.
Feeling optimistic about running these days.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| 9 miles in the gully. Swallowed a gnat which means it's gnat season.
20 reps of the stadium steps during track practice warm-ups.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| AM: 100 push-ups, sit-ups and some dead lifts and rope jumping.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 easy miles in the late afternoon. Not the best run.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.25 |
| 10.25 miles in 1:14:21 which is 7:15 pace - not on the treadmill either but in hilly Sugar House Park. Almost counts as a workout these days.
Splits: 7:59, 7:53, 7:22, 7:20, 7:10, 7:12, 6:58, 7:04, 6:52, 6:52, 1:39
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Track meet Saturday...
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| 13 mountainous miles in the mountains. 9:24 pace.
I got bit by a dog which harshed my trail mellow and caused me to use the F word with its owner. I feel bad about that now.
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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 |
| Gully Longer Run with the team.
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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 |
| AM: Push-up/sit-up marathon.
PM: Gully Longer Run encore. 56:41
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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 |
| Fast treadmill run.
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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 on the Pipeline Trail with Jake and Andrea. Fun!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Nine miles on the treadmill.
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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 |
| Track meet Saturday...
I squeezed in 4 and a quarter. Wet, cold.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.25 |
| Stuff that I re-read. It could also be called a reading list for middle-age men who happen to be teachers and coaches. These are books I go back and re-read when I just have a few minutes or can't find something else to read.
An Education for our Time by Josiah Bunting (my favorite book on education)
Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant (Twain edited these. Grant was racing death when he wrote them. The best presidential memoir.)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Stoicism from one of the Five Good Emperors)
Be Fit or Be Dammed by Percy Cerutty (Old school fitness wisdom from an inspiring crank)
Road to the Top by Joe Vigil ( A great coach. Equal parts philosophy and science)
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian by Wallace Stegner ( If you want to read about the west, start here)
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson (funny)
Sabbath Poems by Wendell Berry (these make me feel like I'm on vacation when I'm not)
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (best biography ever)
The Autobiography of Mark Twain ( He could write)
RUN TODAY: 16.25 mile trail run in 2:29. So about 9:10 pace. Hilly, lots of snow, mud, and slush.
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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 |
| 4.25 miles.
Strenuous weight lifting/strength training.
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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 |
| 6.25 on the treadmill plus, as an added bonus, 1 hard stair mile.
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Alta vs. Orem 3200 (2 Miles) 00:12:02, Place overall: 5 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 |
| Spur of the moment 3200. No warm-up, decided to run 30 seconds before race.
Mile 1 - 6:10
Mile 2 - 5:52
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.75 |
| 10.75 miles on the P-Rock :-) with my team. 7:30 pace.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 miles
5 x 1 minute jump rope
120 push-ups/sit-ups, ab roll-outs
2 x 25 lunges
100 burpees
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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 |
| Track meet Saturday...
9.25 miles around Orem, Utah.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 231.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 233.75 |
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