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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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Brooks T5 Lifetime Miles: 34.00
Ravenna Lifetime Miles: 250.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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Brooks Adrenaline (Green) Miles: 26.00Brooks ST4 (Yellow) Miles: 30.00Ravenna #4 Blue Miles: 24.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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Brooks Adrenaline (Green) Miles: 13.00
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13.000.000.000.0013.00

Very warm morning. 68 degrees and muggy with a soaker of a rainstorm during the final few miles.

Brooks Adrenaline (Green) Miles: 13.00
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Lately I have been doing my Wednesday workouts in the evening but I have a work party at the Hard Rock tonight so I had to run this morning. Poor me.

6:00am. Gorgeous weather. Low 50s...foggy with sunshine above. No wind. Perfect for 8x800m...except for the 6am part.

Ran from the house to the track (4 miles) and rolled right into the workout. Target times were 2:22-2:23 with 400m (2:00) rest intervals.

Intervals went as follows: 2:22, 2:23, 2:22, 2:23, 2:24, 2:24, 2:23, 2:24. So pretty much hit it. I just have no footspeed which was the point of the workout. I don't think my footspeed will improve with age.

Four+ miles home. Beautiful morning.

BTW...I have been complaining about the extraordinary humidity around here the last week or so. Turns out that it wasn't a figment of my imagination. I pretty cool description of how humidity works and why the body hates it so much. Monday was the most humid September day in Seattle history. http://www.komonews.com/weather/blog/103950144.html?blog=y

Brooks ST4 (Yellow) Miles: 14.00
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12 beautiful miles in the very eastern parts of North Bend following my son's cross country meet. Great weather today.

Ravenna #4 Blue Miles: 12.00
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Ravenna #4 Blue Miles: 12.00
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Early morning workout before heading down to Portland for a funeral.

4.5 mile warmup to the track. 7M around the track with the first 5 @ 5:20 and the final 2 @ 5:05. All first five miles were within 5:18-5:21. Final two were in 5:06 and then 4:58.

I was really doubtful about this workout going into it. I ate too much the night before and the early hour seemed...early. But once I got into it, everything went pretty easy. In fact, even the 4:58 was not quite all out. I feel like I could have laid down another one or two miles that were sub 5:05. So a really good workout followed by a 4.5 mile cool down.

Brooks ST4 (Yellow) Miles: 16.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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Brooks Adrenaline (Green) Miles: 26.00Brooks ST4 (Yellow) Miles: 30.00Ravenna #4 Blue Miles: 24.00
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