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Location:

Lehi,UT,

Member Since:

Sep 07, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

PR's

5k - 25:05 (8:05)

10k - 52:33 (8:28)

1/2 - 1:50:39 (8:27)

Short-Term Running Goals:

2010 Races:

8/28 TOU 1/2 1:59:24 (9:06)

9/18/ Meadow Elementary 5k 25:05 (8:05)

10/16 Run From The Sun 10k   52:33 (8:28)

10/30/10 - Halloween Half  1:50:39 (8:27)

2011 Races: 

1/22 St George Half 2:02:47 (9:13)

3/19 Canyonlands Half 2:18:29 (10:24)

4/9 St. George Run4Kids 57:07 (9:11)

6/11 UVM 4:41:33 (10:44) :(

6/25 Lehi Roundup 5k

7/9 AF Steel Days 5k  26:23 (8:20) 

8/20 Hobble Creek Half  2:04 (9:35) 

10/1 St George Marathon 5:42

2012 Races: 

6/9 - UVM 5:16 ouch

Goal for 2012: keep running

Personal:

Married with 3 girls, 10, 8 and 3.

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Altra Lone Peak Lifetime Miles: 138.42
Brooks Launch Silver Lifetime Miles: 200.95
Instinct Black Lifetime Miles: 29.00
2013 Biking Lifetime Miles: 0.00
PureFlow Blue Lifetime Miles: 76.70
Mafate 2 Lifetime Miles: 21.50
Montrail FluidFlex Lifetime Miles: 81.80
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
171.9032.40204.30
Brooks Launch Miles: 139.552010 Biking Miles: 30.00Old Asics Miles: 19.25Nike Free Run Miles: 51.50
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.001.004.00

Comments
From Burt on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 00:28:18 from 68.225.214.248

Welcome to the blog. Good luck.

From peaks on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:12:07 from 76.27.100.194

Thx Burt! :)

Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.000.000.00

stretching/strength 

Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.000.009.00

My first attempt at a 5am jog.  :'(  This is going to take some getting used to.

Brooks Launch Miles: 9.00
Comments
From Rob Murphy on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 13:48:00 from 205.127.70.66

I do a lot of really early runs. Not because I like them necessarily, but because that's the time of day that I can virtually guarantee that no other life obligations will get in the way.

Unless you count sleep as an obligation.

Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.000.000.00

1.25 hours pulling the kids around town & on the Jordan River Trail in a bike trailer.  Heading to the track on Saturday morning for some speed training!

2010 Biking Miles: 15.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
1.003.004.00

5k practice. 8:30pace. Hopefully I can speed up for next weeks race. (meadow elementary school pta 5k. Lehi, UT)

Brooks Launch Miles: 4.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.000.000.00

2010 Biking Miles: 15.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
1.002.003.00

Old Asics Miles: 3.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.001.004.00

5k prep intervals. (4x400) I'm still a complete newb at hitting the right interval pace consistently.

1mi. warm up and cool down with 2 minutes between 400's.

400 #1 - 6:50 pace

400 #2 - 6:57 pace

400 #3 - 7:26 pace (oops)

400 #4 - 6:37 pace


Brooks Launch Miles: 4.00
Race: Meadow Elementary 5k (3.1 Miles) 00:25:05
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.003.103.10

1 - 7:57

2 - 8:14

3 - 8:09

.1 - :45

Not as fast as I wanted to go.  Oh well maybe next year...

Brooks Launch Miles: 3.10
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.250.005.25

Old Asics Miles: 5.25
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.000.003.00

Brooks Launch Miles: 3.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
1.000.001.00

I decided to hike with friends today (Sat.) instead of run. Hiked from Big Springs to Cascade Mountain Ridge.  My GPS clocked the total hike @ around 11 miles.  At one point my friend and I thought we heard a moose, turned out to be two goofy BYU kids hiking way off the trail making animal sounds.  Overall it was a pretty hike, I'm glad I went.

hike 

map 

Old Asics Miles: 11.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.000.003.00

testing the new shoes on a treadmill

Nike Free Run Miles: 3.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.800.006.80

Bonneville Shoreline Trail.  Rock Canyon to Slate Canyon and then back to RC.  Frigging Brutal.

Brooks Launch Miles: 6.80
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
16.000.0016.00

First off, great job all SGM runners!!!  This site is so cool, and the race reports have been way helpful & motivational. I just got into the 2011 SGM runners series so it looks like I'm joining ya'll next year! (yikes, whimpering to myself as reality sets in. maybe all the reports of SGM runners running while dry heaving caused this lol.) So if they weren't handing out GU's at the SGM aid stations what did they hand out besides drinks? Bananas and Oranges at least?

Now the run report.   Vivian Park (Provo Canyon) to Utah Lake on the Provo River Trail.  Around 15 miles running with a 1 mile cool down.  This is my longest run to date.  I'm going to start focusing on logging a lot more miles (weekly) than I have been, so this is the start of all that...

Not too much to report on the run.  Long slow miles. Lots of pretty scenery. I stashed a water bottle at mile 6 that I carried until mile 9, which was a pain but very necessary, I still felt pretty dehydrated at the end of the run. Got "chicked" x2 at mile 8 due to my slowness. :)  Bill and I found out the hard way that the I-15 Provo River Trail Underpass is closed so you have to run a detour route for a mile or two. We ended up only running around 9:55 minutes/mile but it's a start.  Bill and I were pretty hammered at the end of the run but I think this was a good step forward.

Peace out! - Peaks out!

 

Brooks Launch Miles: 16.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.500.003.50

3.5 @ 8:34, rockin' the AF gold's.... the gym temperature felt like i was doing a hot yoga workout (just using my imagination here, not speaking from personal experience) so I got outta there asap.  

Nike Free Run Miles: 3.50
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
14.000.0014.00

 Vivian Park to Utah Lake run, second week running this route.  14 miles at 9:30ish pace.  

Nike Free Run Miles: 14.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
1.000.001.00

Brooks Launch Miles: 1.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.500.006.50

Brooks Launch Miles: 6.50
Race: Run from the Sun 5k & 10k (6.2 Miles) 00:52:33, Place overall: 17
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.006.206.20

Fun charity race.  I'm glad I made the drive up to Kaysville for this one. 

6.2 @ 8:28 min/mile.  I didn't have the best day of running, which I'm sure is a direct result from my lack of training for the last 3 weeks or so.  I ended up walking for about 30 seconds mid race after a hill.  When I crossed the finish line the clock said 48:20 and I knew I hadn't been that fast.  And then I got an "unofficial time" results card that said 43:08 (6:56) which was good for a laugh! (i'm keeping the card handy for bragging sessions at the water cooler, lol) By that night the official corrected results were online.

On a sidenote I signed up for the 2011 Utah Valley Full Marathon today!  Which will be my first full marathon ever.  (so it's time to kick my training up a huge notch) I'm going to sign up for all of my 2011 races now, since Boston and the SGM Marathon Runners Series filled up so fast I'm sure 2011 will be a way popular year for all running events.

~ Peaks out 

Brooks Launch Miles: 6.20
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

4mi around the neighborhood.  

Running in my Free Run's makes my Brooks Launch shoes feel like the Cadillac of all running shoes.  So much more supportive and cushioned than the Nikes. Maybe if I dropped 10-15lbs the free runs wouldn't need to absorb so much impact.

Nike Free Run Miles: 4.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.500.004.50

4.5mi sloooow.  Moonlight running in my Lehi hood.  I ran on mostly unlit backroads but the moon was pretty bright so no problems seeing my surroundings.  Plenty of skunk smell along the way, not sure what's up with that, but no direct skunk attacks. :)

Brooks Launch Miles: 4.50
Comments
From Faceless Ghost on Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 17:08:37 from 128.187.97.2

Nighttime is a great time to run. Especially when the moon is so bright :)

Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

Another late night running session around Lehi.  The moon was covered by clouds for the whole run, but there was enough light on the back roads to get by...

Nike Free Run Miles: 6.00
Race: Halloween Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:51:00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.0013.1013.10

My 2nd half marathon ever.  Overall I felt pretty good and I'm getting a bit faster each race.  I opted to skip wearing a watch so I would stop worrying about my splits and just go with how I'm feeling and enjoy the race, that plan ended up working out pretty well imo.

Super chilly at Aspen Grove.  I stayed in the tent until about 20 minutes before the race.  A lot of really cool, creative costumes.  At the starting line group up I'm pretty sure I saw bloggers Allie, Lily and one other guy from the blog talking pre-race. (the guy was the 1:55 pacer for the race, I'll have to track down his name) I chickened out on introducing myself to any of them since I'm pretty sure our conversation would be "hi, I really like your blogs.  you guys are awesome runners... well, have a good race"  Pretty sure Allie was wearing crocs so I'm not sure what's up with that.  Also, saw one dude running the entire race barefoot, right on man, i think... Bring on the pain when you step on a sharp rock...

On to the race...

The start was slow slow, so many people.  And some hippie cameraman parked his Matt Folley "van down by the river" van in the middle of the road to catch footage at the start, which blocked two thirds of the road, sort of annoying.  Also (very fun race, just listing my complaints) the race directors should have skipped putting huge orange cones in the middle of the road from Aspen Grove to Sundance.  I saw one poor lady completely biff it over one cone.  A few people, including myself, slowed down to make sure she was okay.

The early miles down Sundance Canyon went fast, I let gravity do the work for me until we hit Provo Canyon.  Slowed down slightly once we hit Provo Canyon.  At mile 8 the 1:50 pacers caught up to me.  I followed them until almost mile 10 but I'm pretty sure they were going a tad faster than 8:23 min/mile so it was wearing me out so they dropped me.  Also, a 9 year old in a Superman costume was ahead of me for the entire race, he dropped me (too) at mile 10.  He must come from a big time running family, or actually be another child from Krypton. That's about it for the race I held an okay pace through the finish.  Found my family, grabbed my clothing bag and got out of there.  Super fun well organized race.

I'll get my approximate splits from Bill and I'll post those later today...

 ~ Peaks out

edit: here are the approx splits, from Bill's Garmin - 8:29, 7:24, 7:28, 7:15, 7:53, 10:27 (waiting for people & bathroom stop) 8:59, 8:35, 8:56, 8:44, 9:50, 9:17, 8:57, (7:58 min/mile for the last .1)

Brooks Launch Miles: 13.10
Comments
From Rob on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 17:22:26 from 204.15.86.95

Hey, good job. The Lady who you helped up was my wife. She wanted me to thank you for your help. So thanks. I'm still looking for the cone knocker that kicked the cone in front of her.

From peaks on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 19:23:29 from 166.205.140.75

No problem Rob. Yeah I read about the guy kicking down cones too. That's really odd.

From allie on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 20:22:41 from 174.23.195.124

great race, peaks. a new half PR! way to go. i wish you would have come and said hi today. it would have been fun to meet you. about the crocs...the idea of running in them came from sasha. i have lots of crocs so i decided to try it out this summer. so far they have worked really well for me, but this was the first time i have actually been brave enough to wear them in a race. oddly enough they work very well as a running shoe.

great job once again!

From peaks on Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 00:08:47 from 98.202.186.27

thanks for the encouragement Allie. i'll be sure to say hi at the next race. :)

Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.500.003.50

Brooks Launch Miles: 3.50
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

6 nice slow miles along the Jordan River.  Perfect weather.

Nike Free Run Miles: 6.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.000.0010.00

10mi down Provo Canyon to my work.  Brr, still getting used to wearing the right # of layers to match the temperature.  Very frustrated with my last 4 weeks of not running often after I worked so hard this summer.  Next week should be a lot better.  

Brooks Launch Miles: 10.00
Comments
From allie on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 22:35:12 from 174.23.238.75

nice mileage. i agree about finding the right amount of layers. trial and error!

Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.100.007.10

7+ TM miles at the south orem golds.  i'm happy to start the week on a positive running note...

Brooks Launch Miles: 7.10
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.000.0010.00

Started to run the Flinders loop and was feeling good and finally had some free time to myself so I decided to bust it up to Redwood Road and back.  Nice pre storm warmness tonight.  It felt good, no need for a hat/gloves.

Brooks Launch Miles: 10.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.000.003.00

Nike Free Run Miles: 3.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

6 @ the gym

Nike Free Run Miles: 6.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

TM running @ Golds AF

Brooks Launch Miles: 4.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.750.007.75

my neighbor took me on a new loop in Lehi.  it was nice to see some new stuff around town.

Brooks Launch Miles: 7.75
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

6 miles around Cedar Hills, running up hills wasn't as bad as I always imagined.  I made up a loop that went over to AF canyon and back I'll have to work on making a bigger loop.  

Nike Free Run Miles: 6.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.003.006.00

6mi with the neighbors on the Jordan River trail.  i was hoping to get in more miles but it was nice to have peeps to run with.

i just found out today (monday) that my group got into the Canyonlands Half Marathon!  very cool.  i've wanted to run this race for years. 

Brooks Launch Miles: 6.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

5 night miles around lehi.  it looks like i'm destined to be a night, treadmill and weekend runner.  getting up early and running hasn't worked that well to date.

Brooks Launch Miles: 5.00
Comments
From Scott Wesemann on Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 19:09:15 from 75.162.89.170

Finding time to run is always tough. Good luck. In the winter I am pretty much a TM and weekend guy too.

Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

Brooks Launch Miles: 4.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

5 at the AF gold's cardio cinema 

Brooks Launch Miles: 5.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
171.9032.40204.30
Brooks Launch Miles: 139.552010 Biking Miles: 30.00Old Asics Miles: 19.25Nike Free Run Miles: 51.50
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