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Providence,UT,

Member Since:

Apr 18, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:


no heart attack yet

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

turn 50 and have a colonoscopy done


Long-Term Running Goals:

avoid open heart surgery

Personal:

I am a 50 year old biochemistry professor at Utah State University in Logan.

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Mizuno Precision 9 Lifetime Miles: 255.80
Saucony Triumph 5 Lifetime Miles: 97.70
Vibram Five Finger Sprints Lifetime Miles: 242.26
Wave Rider 11 Lifetime Miles: 342.95
Mizuno Wave Ronin Lifetime Miles: 183.31
Brooks T5 Lifetime Miles: 107.40
NB 790 Pair 3 Lifetime Miles: 244.65
Hoka Bondi B Lifetime Miles: 758.08
Hyperspeed 3 Pair 3 Lifetime Miles: 74.03
Nike Free Plus Yellow Lifetime Miles: 70.60
Kinvara 2 Lifetime Miles: 53.52
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
192.8014.308.003.00218.10
Mizuno Wave Rider 10 Miles: 59.90Mizuno Wave Precision Miles: 38.00Asics Nimbus Miles: 37.70Saucony Triumph Miles: 74.60
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

feels like September not December. Just cruising along at 7-8 per day at 7:20-7:30 paces. Tomorrow I will hit the USU track around noon for some intervals to keep me honest. Thinking of running the carlsbad 5000 in March.... anyone done that?

Mizuno Wave Rider 10 Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.003.007.00

6 x 800 on USU track with Neal in a nasty swirling wind. 400 recoveries. my times were 2:45 , 2:46, 2:47, 2:46, 2:51 and 2:47, Neal was 12-15 seconds faster on each interval. Tough with the wind. 

Mizuno Wave Precision Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles USU to LC single track 7:29

Mizuno Wave Rider 10 Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.203.000.000.007.20

two mile warm up @7:22. then 3 miles at 6:31. then 2.2 at 7:24. trying to get the feel for maintaining a 6:30-6:40 pace since all I have been doing is 5K and 10K races at 6:00-6:10, and intervals, and easy stuff. Now if I can just maintain that 6:31 for 23.2 more miles.....

Mizuno Wave Precision Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.600.000.000.0011.60

blacksmith fork to left hand fork to richards hollow

Asics Nimbus Miles: 11.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

USU to green canyon, 30 seconds slower than last week :-(

Mizuno Wave Rider 10 Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.004.000.008.00

Met Neal Legler and Joe Furse at track for some speedwork. ran miles with 400 recoveries, went out too fast on the first one and went downhill from there. times were 5:43, 5:52, 5:57; 6:00. Would have been better if my times had gone in the opposite direction but oh well.

Mizuno Wave Precision Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

USU up river trail. One more snowfall and it will probably be the end of the river trail season. 

Mizuno Wave Rider 10 Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.703.300.000.007.00

2 mile warmup @7:24. then decided to increase my hoped for marathon pace distance by 10% from last week, so ran 3.3 miles @6:34 pace. but it hurt. Maybe it was the speed work tuesday. Maybe it's the NIH grant proposal due next Monday that is consuming my time. Maybe I am just too old for this?

Mizuno Wave Rider 10 Miles: 3.30
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

Mizuno Wave Rider 10 Miles: 4.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.100.000.000.0012.10

Well, I was supposed to hook up in the morning with my (much younger and supposedly tougher) training mentors. But they decided the weather was too tough for them. Me, I grew up in Wisconsin and spent two years in Norway, including one year above the arctic circle, in Narvik and Tromso, where the sun doesn't rise for two and a half months and the snow is so deep the roads can look like narrow canyons with 10 foot walls of snow on either side. So nothing Utah can throw at me bothers me. OK- so I went out at 8:30 AM in blizzard like conditions. Roads were OK some places, bad others. But this is the kind of running I like. I put in 12.1 miles @ 7:37 average on my Providence-Millville-River Heights-South Logan loop. I was amazed I held that overall pace, because the two miles coming back up 100 east and Canyon road was like running on a wet ice rink- no traction, complete slush slop, I had to baby step the whole way up. Overall I was happy with the run, and glad it is over.

Asics Nimbus Miles: 12.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.100.000.000.007.10

USU to green canyon and back. 7:25 average pace. cold.

Mizuno Wave Rider 10 Miles: 7.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.500.004.000.006.50

Ran some intervals outside in the snow, wind, slush and cold. But tougher than running on track!!!!

Mizuno Wave Rider 10 Miles: 6.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

OK, I have decided to start gradually building my base mileage on the advice of my newly-hired coach, Paul Petersen, who has graciously agreed to turn me into a master's marathon champion, or I get my money back (all zero dollars of it). The tentative goal: Ogden Marathon, May 16, 2008, sub 3 hour. So today I ran 9 miles @7:34 pace.

Mizuno Wave Rider 10 Miles: 9.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

pm2.5 is above 25 micrograms/cubic meter, which is my pollution limit for running. So I went up BF canyon where the air was crystal clear, inversion hasn't gotten there yet. From park 4 miles up @ 7:40, 4 miles back @6:52

 

Asics Nimbus Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

ran in the brunt of the storm, not smart but only time available. 6 mile Prov-Milliville loop 8:15

Asics Nimbus Miles: 6.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.000.000.000.0013.00

running in the hills near Valley Center, CA- 60 degrees and sunny. The hills are tough. 13 miles @7:42

Saucony Triumph Miles: 13.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

there is a great set of bike/horse trails in San Marcos CA around Walnut Grove park. Choice of blacktop separated from main road or a parallel packed dirt trail the equestrians use. I ran easy 7 on the dirt paths to recover from yesterday's 13, weather went south, it rained the whole way, butit beats minus 3 degrees in Logan, ha ha enjoy that fun weather!

Saucony Triumph Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.004.000.000.008.00

San Marcos trails, 2 @7:45, 4 @ 6:35, 2 @ 7:30. sixty degrees, sunny

Mizuno Wave Precision Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

bad bad bad run. went into Daley park from the north. big mistake. steep rocky and rutted. after 1.7 gave up and scrambled back. then I ran back to San Marcos to find my wife but it was all steep downhill. not a smart run.

Saucony Triumph Miles: 9.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

thrashed my calves on wednesday by running some really steep and nasty terrain. I hope they are just strained and nothing worse. ran 8 today stopping a few times to stretch my calves which seemed to help. no more rutted trails or insanely steep hills for this old guy that was a big mistake. I am also staying off the wet dirt paths as I think they might be too soft contributing to my problems. I'll just stick to the blacktop and hope for the best.  8 miles @ 7:24

Saucony Triumph Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.100.000.000.0013.10

7:28 average pace. 60 degrees. sunny. perfect weather.

Saucony Triumph Miles: 13.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

7 miles @7:42

Saucony Triumph Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.004.000.000.008.00

2 miles @ 7:32, 4 miles @ 6:30, 2 miles @7:45.

65 degrees in the morning, it was sunny, got to 75 today. not excited to go back to Utah. Also there is a lot more oxygen down here making tempo runs feel like nothing.

 

Mizuno Wave Precision Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.500.000.000.007.50

7.5 @ 7:34. man it was hot, even at  8AM, got so hot I had to take my shirt off while running, which may be illegal for a ghostly pale utah guy down here where everyone is tanned. got up to 78 degrees today. hey- how is that awesome utah weather?

Saucony Triumph Miles: 7.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 miles @7:22

Saucony Triumph Miles: 10.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
192.8014.308.003.00218.10
Mizuno Wave Rider 10 Miles: 59.90Mizuno Wave Precision Miles: 38.00Asics Nimbus Miles: 37.70Saucony Triumph Miles: 74.60
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