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Highlands Ranch,CO,U.S.

Member Since:

May 29, 2006

Gender:

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Goal Type:

NCAA Champ

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Im explorin' my potential

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Train smart & listen to my body! Become a D1 All American!

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One step at a time...

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Attend CU in Architectural Engineering.

"If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
56.500.004.001.500.7562.75
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
13.000.000.000.000.0013.00

Today was the longer run of the week. I felt really good after taking yesteday off. I think that if you get in the habit of not taking days off, your body restores faster. Today I felt really good and energized. Good run! 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

I ran really nice and easy today. Tommorrow I "officially" begin some faster paced workouts. As of now, I feel pretty un-sharp, but I think that a couple weeks of harder work will bring me to where I need to be. I just checked the calendar today, and I have only six weeks until XC time trials! Man, not too long. I can't wait! I am impressed with Kenenisa Bekeles win over Craig Mottram in the 3000 on letsrun.com. What really got me was Chris Solinskys 3rd place finish! He just graduated, and I'm sure his best is yet to come.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.004.000.000.7510.75

This was the first day of my current training session that a bit of threshold work was incorporated. I began with a three mile warm up, then did 4x1mile at threshold pace (my coaches goal was 5:32 pace). My splits were as follows: 4:50, 5:25, 5:31, 5:30. The first mile was way too fast. I think this is because I have not done anything fast in quite a while, so everything sort of subconsciously "poured out". The next mile was closer to goal pace, but still a bit fast. On miles three and four, I really came close to the target pace. It was also about 90 degrees out, which made things a bit tougher. Before doing a three mile cooldown, I did 8x150 meter strides. In all, this was a good workout. At least now I know I have not really lost any speed since BB10k. My pain threshold is a bit lower, but nothing a 5k or two can't fix.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

I ran an easy ten this morning. Once again, it was way too hot for running, but I persevered nonetheless. Tommorrow morning I fly into SLC. I am looking forward to Draper Days and meeting everyone :)

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.750.0010.75

Good run today, but I was a bit frusturated about the whole traveling to Utah issue. My body felt really good, though. Average pace was around 6:20/mile. I also did 8x150 meter strides at the end.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.500.000.000.750.0010.25

Today was nice and easy to prepare for the long run tommorrow. I did some strides at the end to work a bit of speed into the run. Awesome news!!! My bags just came back from SLC! It only took about 900 phone calls and several hours of nagging for the airlines to finally get their act together, and ship my bags back. What a dissapointment :( . I really wanted to run Draper Days, but I got denied at the last minute. I guess it is partially my fault for assuming that there would be space on flights, but the amount of ruckus this created was unreal, not to mention the loss of race fee money. Sad day.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
56.500.004.001.500.7562.75
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