| Location: Orem,UT,USA Member Since: Apr 03, 2006 Gender: Male Goal Type: Age Division Winner Running Accomplishments: HS/COLLEGE:
mile: 4:56, 2 mile: 10:21 (1978)
marathon: 2:52 (St. George 1982)
OLD MAN (20+ years later):
5K: 19:53 (Nestle/Art City Days 5K 2007)
10K: 39:55 (Spectrum 10K 2008)
half marathon: 1:26 (Hobble Creek 2008)
marathon: 3:07 (St. George 2007) Short-Term Running Goals: Get back to a BQ marathon time (currently 3:40). Long-Term Running Goals: Have fun running, keep fit, and fight middle age spread. Run consistently and injury free. Maintain a healthy balance between running and other life priorities. Encourage my ever-aging running buddies to keep running so we can continue to share runs on the trail instead of rocking chairs. Personal: Blessed to be married to Karen for 30 years. We have six children (4 daughters/2 sons) ages 16 to 30, and one wonderful granddaughter. Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 38.45 | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 45.95 |
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| Brooks Axiom Yellow Miles: 7.50 | Saucony Guide 2 Miles: 32.35 | Saucony Guide TR Miles: 6.10 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 3.50 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| I went with Larry and Kent to the track again this morning. Again I did mile repeats while they did 1/4 mile repeats. My legs felt pretty sluggish this morning. Actually, I've felt tired pretty much since last Thursday when I took the day off to start cutting down the big dead tree in front of my house, which took me most of Thursday and Friday. Saturday was the parade, the 10K, then Stadium of Fire late into the evening. Sunday was hours of church meetings and clerking, then playing games with my family until late in the evening. It will be nice to get back to work so I can get a rest. Anyway, this morning I did three one mile repeats at 7:07, 7:14, and 6:59, then 1/2 mile @ 6:59/mi, the 1/4 mile @ 6:11/mi, the 1/8 mile @ 5:44/mi., with about 1/4 mile jog between each repeat. I'm not at the top of my game, but as awful as my legs felt this morning, and as little speed work and tempo runs as I've done this year, I'm satisfied. It felt good to push harder than normal. It helped to work out some of the frustration I'm still feeling from the mess up at the 10K Saturday.
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| Brooks Axiom Yellow Miles: 7.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| I ran the 2000 N hill route with Larry and Wayne this morning. I think I'm getting spoiled by all these beautiful running mornings, but I'm sure enjoying them. The pace was really slow this morning, but it didn't feel very easy. Maybe I'll feel some zip for the water tank hills tomorrow.
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| Saucony Guide 2 Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 2.60 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 6.10 |
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Water tank hills with Wayne and Kent. We're hoping Larry not showing means his daughter Stacia finally had her baby...or maybe the mattress just got him again. We ran easy warmup pace to the bottom of the hills as usual. Sometimes I'm eager to start the push up the hills, but I wasn't so eager today. With Wayne's encouragement I started the push anyway. I ran the hills in about 16:42, just slightly slower than last week. I didn't push hard again until the 1/2 mile from 400 E down to Main. I felt really good on that section and ran it at 5:58/mi pace. I was really tired yesterday. I think I dozed off about 4 times at work and twice after work. Even when I was awake I had a hard time concentrating. I even forgot the Tuesday night meetings I had. They called to remind me about the second one so I showed up late, but I completely missed the first one. I got better sleep last night so I hope I do better today.
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| Saucony Guide TR Miles: 6.10 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| Wayne and I were the only ones to show up this morning. We ran the Thursday route toward the canyon. At 800 E we saw Mike Jasper turn onto 1200 N just ahead of us. We picked it up a little to try to catch him but it wasn't happening. Just averaging 8:45/mi for the run felt hard. Neither of us really wanted to get up this morning, but we both did and now with the run behind us we're glad we did. |
| Saucony Guide 2 Miles: 6.20 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 20.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.15 |
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We had a good turnout for our 5:45am run: Larry, Kevin, Wayne, Tom, Nathan, Michael, Collin, and me. The weather was cool and overcast...perfect for a long run. We ran the first couple of miles together (9:27, 9:24) then Nathan, Tom, Collin, and Michael started pulling away. I stayed back with Wayne, Kevin, and Larry. I figured since Tom, Nathan and I were the only ones going 20 miles, that I would have plenty of time with them later in the run...but the gap kept getting bigger and bigger (9:34). Wayne, who had run 9 miles pretty hard last night, was only going 9 again this morning. He went with me and we closed the gap, passing Collin and Michael (8:43, 8:24). He turned back at 4.5 miles and I pushed on and closed the gap a little more on Tom and Nathan (8:20). After a brief stop for a drink at Vivian we started up South Fork. The uphill felt a lot like...well, uphill (10:08, 9:17, 10:05, 10:06). The four miles or so back down to Vivian were faster, but not as fast as usual (8:36, 8:26, 8:38, 8:16). I think my legs were feeling the effects of pushing earlier to catch up. After Vivian, Nathan said he wanted to go sub-8:00 the rest of the way down so we bid farewell. Tom and I stayed together the rest of the run, both of us content to just keep moving and finish (8:53, 9:10, 8:47, 8:57, 9:11, 8:49). We averaged 9:04/mi for the 20.15 miles. This 20 miler felt a lot like...well, a 20 miler. It was great getting to run with Tom and Nathan again, and it was great to have the run done.
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| Saucony Guide 2 Miles: 20.15 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 38.45 | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 45.95 |
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| Brooks Axiom Yellow Miles: 7.50 | Saucony Guide 2 Miles: 32.35 | Saucony Guide TR Miles: 6.10 |
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