Sean's Running Blog

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Location:

Snoqualmie,WA,

Member Since:

Feb 24, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

2011 Boston Marathon -- 2:27 (Top 50)
2011 Steilacoom 20k -- 1:04:57 (1st)
2010 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon -- 2:26 (7th)
2010 Fall City 10k -- 31:06 (1st)
2009 Indy Mini Marathon -- 1:07:53 (7th)
2009 WWU Invitational -- 10000m (30:58)
2009 UW Indoor Meet -- 5000m (14:49)
2008 Orem Turkey Run -4 miler -- 19:55 (1st)
2008 Seafair Torchlight 8k--25:03 (3rd)
2008 Time to Fly 5k -- 15:35 (1st)
2008 Newport Marathon -- 2:22:47 (1st)
Steilacoom 15M--1:18:30 (1st)
2007 Olympic Trials -- 2:30:41 (91st)
2007 St. George --2:18:55 (3rd)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Feb 23 -- Ft Steilacoom 15M
March 23 – Ft. Steilacoom 20k
April 15 – Boston Marathon
June 8 – Sound to Narrows 12k
June 22 – Grandma’s Half Marathon (USATF Champs.)
July 7 – Run of the Mill 5k
July 27 – Torchlight 8k
September – SJJ Half (maybe)
October/November – Fall Marathon (maybe)
December – Club XC Nationals

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy

Personal:

Ran track my junior and senior years in high school and cross country my senior year. Went to BYU but did not run. Served LDS church mission to San Bernardino, CA. Started running again in April 2005. Marathon debut was St. George in 2005.

I coach the Mount Si High School Track Team (distance)

Been married for almost 17 years. My wife, Mara, and I have four kids ages 16, 14, 13 and 11.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Brooks T5 Lifetime Miles:						34.00
Ravenna Lifetime Miles:						250.00

Mon, Jun 02, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.10

Easy six miles this morning at 7:25 pace. I feel absolutely fantastic 48 hours post marathon. In fact, I felt great yesterday and could have easily done 5-6 miles. I attribute the quicker recovery mostly to being stronger going in. I'm a big believer in my new found religion of stretching and doing core exercises. I have a long way to go but I've gotten a big whiff of how important it is.

Next race is probably a local 10k in two weeks. I may opt for the 5k but would like to smash my 10k PR of 33:03. I've never run a 5k though so I'm thinking I might do that instead. I'm also considering running the Grandma's Half Marathon in Duluth in three weeks. That might be pushing it a bit but I would like to get in one flat and fast half this year and those don't exist in Washington.

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Comments

From Jon on Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 10:58:46

What is your stretching/core strength routine? I need to add some so would like to know what has worked for you.

From Paul Petersen on Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:55:06

Core work helped me a lot last year as well. I think it helps most with posture and efficiency late in a race.

Have you considered the Seafair Half Marathon? I've never run it, but the profile doesn't look too bad (less hilly than the full marathon), plus you could probably win some prize money.

From Sean on Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 13:05:54

Seafair is a fairly flat marathon now anyway. They've changed the course drastically making it a point to point and running it across the floating bridge. Problem is I will be out of town that week visiting my parents in Minneapolis. I am going to run a 10k out there but couldn't find any Halfs while I'm there.

From johnr on Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 19:04:29

Sean,

Sweet race on Saturday. Thanks for the encouragement and comments. Running 2:22 solo is amazing. My wife took a picture of you from early in the race (first mile) and if you want it I'll email it to you.

Regarding the 10k you have coming up...I think you probably split faster than 33:03 in Newport right?

John

From Sean Sundwall on Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 13:39:31

I would have been about 33:40 or so at the 10k split in Newport based on my 32:32 6-mile split. As long as I'm healed up from the marathon, I would love to try and break 32 in the 10k. That may be too much to bite off though.

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