I ran for Utah State University for a few years from 1999-2002. I got a little burned out and took a break from running. Now 10 years later, I feel that there is still faster running left to accomplish. I started running again in mid-summer of 2012. I had a short spurt in 2009, but work got in the way.
PRs: Non-Aided
5K 15:53
8K 26:51
Marathon 2:45:24 Boston 2015
Aided PRs:
5K 15:50
10K 31:47
15K 52:25 (Blacksmith Fork Freedom Run 1999)
Half Marathon 1:16:28 SLC Haunted Half 2015
Marathon 2:38:12
I have ran 7 marathons and averaged = 2:51:58
Short-Term Running Goals:
Run a sub 17:00 5K again
2:45 Marathon
3000 miles in 2013
2013 Race Schedule:
St. Patrick's Day 5K 3/16 1st Place 17:22
Famous Idaho Potato Marathon 5/18 3rd Place 2:52:20
St. George Marathon 10/5 2:45:45
2014 Race Schedule:
Gold Rush Half Marathon 3/15 1st Place 1:21:11
Poultney Chili Cook-Off 5K 9/27 1st Place 16:59
Turkey Trot 11/27
2015 Race Schedule:
Boston Marathon 4/20/15 2:45:24
Run the Runway 3rd place
Huntsville Marathon 9/26/15 5th place. Took a chance and went out too fast. 2:53:19
Haunted Half SLC 10/24/15 3rd place 1:16:28
2016 Race Schedule:
Phoenix Marathon 2/27/16 2:51
Revel Mt. Charlston Marathon 5/7/16
St. George Marathon 10/1/16
Long-Term Running Goals:
Sub 2:35 Marathon
Personal:
I am married and have a 5 year old little boy and a 2 year old little girl. I graduated from USU in aviation and worked as a pilot for many years. After subsequential furloughs and lay-offs due to the economy, I decided to go back to school. I then graduated from the nursing program at Boise State University. I now fly the University of Utah AirMed (Lifeflight) airplane base in Rock Springs WY.
Easy run on this very hot day. My plan was to do 15 with the last 6 at 6:00 pace but I thought because my left hip was a little sore, (that is the one the that I injured at the beginig of the year) I really didn't want to hurt it like earlier in the year. After the run my hip was not sore and I probably could haf push it and I think that it would have been fine. AP 6:56
Meridian Dairy Days Milk Run (After a long run) (3.107 Miles) 00:17:27, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Easy Miles
Marathon Pace Miles
Threshold Miles
VO2 Max Miles
Total Distance
17.00
0.00
0.00
3.11
20.11
I pulled a Walter Brown today and ran a long run before the race.
The day started at 6 a.m. I went for a 16 mile run in meridian with an AP of 6:58 then ran a 5K in 17:27, and a 1 mile cool down. The race had a bunch of high school cross country runners there.
The race started and some high school kid sprinted way out in front. I though that he will come back to me. The race settled down and I caught and dropped the kid. now running along side me was a high school cross country coach and a HS kid. We hit mile 1 in 5:34. Then I started to feel the miles that I put in today and this week and I started to get dropped and I was thinking that I could live with 3rd. At mile 2 (5:43) and they were 5 or more seconds ahead of me. I started to feel better and I have the endurance here with all the miles I have been putting and the good tempo runs I have been putting in. So I started to push it a bit and was catching them. I caught the coach at just before 2.5 and dropped him, and was catching the hs with just over a 1/4 mile to go. The course ended at the Meridian Speedway on the 1/4 mile oval track. I really started to put the hammer down and came through mile 3 at 5:39. By this time I had dropped the hs kid and sprinted the last 0.1 in 29 sec.
I felt really good about this race without fresh legs. I just wanted a good effort at the end of a long run and 70 mile week which is really high for me. I think that I was not even doing that many a week at USU.
p.m.- I ran (walked/carried/pushind in the stroller) the kids half mile with my 2 year old at the Boise Main Street Mile. This was kind of a flop... He is always running around the house saying ready-set-go and then run around like daddy. So, I decide to take him out to see if he could run a half mile. So I got him all excited and said that we are going running and put on his running shoes. He thought that was great. He ran about 75% of the half mile and only walked/stopped to pick up a stick and play in the water at the end.
So I thought that I would sign him up for the half mile. Well the race didn't start until 7:20 p.m. (almost bedtime) and we got there to early so, by the time his race came around he wanted nothing to do with it. We were quite the spectical... We get home and then he want to go running.
I did a 12 mile out and back run along the greenbelt. It was quit humid this morning. I was planning to do the last 3 at tempo but started to have some GI issues and had to slow down to just slower than MP. Those darn cherries! I must have eaten to many of them yesterday.
