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January 2009

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Location:

Lehi,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jan 01, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Personal bests since 2009:

  • 5K - 18:31 (Freedom Run, 2021)
  • 10K - 38:52 (Dana Point, 2009)
  • Half marathon - 1:25:54 (SLC, 2012)
  • Marathon - 3:02:40 (St. George, 2009)

Short-Term Running Goals:

  • Break 3:00 in a marathon
  • Run at least 5 days a week

Long-Term Running Goals:

  • Lifetime fitness
  • Run the Boston Marathon
  • Do an Ironman triathlon (someday)

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Air Pegasus 25 Lifetime Miles: 1220.37
Asics Equation 2 Lifetime Miles: 1198.81
Asics Blue And Silver Lifetime Miles: 930.43
Pearl Izumi Orange Streaks Lifetime Miles: 194.77
Treadmill Lifetime Miles: 2381.47
New Balance 690 Lifetime Miles: 313.68
New Balance 310 Lifetime Miles: 1120.96
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
38.985.3524.004.2511.5584.13
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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
3.100.000.000.000.003.10

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
2.051.250.000.000.003.30

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
2.750.000.000.000.002.75

This was actually on the elliptical

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
0.000.000.000.003.303.30

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
1.000.005.000.000.006.00

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
2.100.000.001.250.003.35

5x400m

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Elliptical machine

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
1.000.000.000.002.403.40

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
1.000.000.001.000.002.00

B-ball

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
1.000.005.500.000.006.50

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
0.904.100.000.000.005.00

5 minutes - 8:30 pace

5 minutes - 8:00 pace

5 minutes - 7:30 pace

10 minutes - 7:00 pace

5 minutes - 6:31 pace

 Pushed myself on this one. Hopefully not more than what I'm ready for. But it felt awesome, and my heart/breathing were not going too hard. Makes me excited for the next workout like this to see if I can push it a little harder.

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
1.500.000.000.000.001.50

Played b-ball tonight

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
0.000.000.000.003.153.15

5 minutes warmup (uphill) on treadmill

20 minutes at 6.0-6.5 mph (random hill climb, level 12) on treadmill

10 minutes cooldown (uphill) walking on treadmill

Felt good at the beginning but then couldn't handle the uphill at the speed I was going. But it was good to test my limits.

Also, found out I will be able to run in the SLC half marathon on April 18. Plan to do this rather than the Provo one. Should be fun.

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
2.000.000.000.000.002.00

Played basketball again tonight. It showed me that I still am out of shape. Got winded after going up and down the court a few times. Need to stay consistent with running. Not sure if I'm going to continue playing b-ball because it's messing up my running routine.

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
2.250.006.500.000.008.75

Didn't get an elliptical workout in this week, so I made that my warmup (10 minutes) and cooldown (20 minutes) for my run. Those were the easy miles. Heart rate was about 125 at beginning and 130-150 on cooldown.

 Ran 2 minutes at 6.5 mph at the beginning and end of run. In the middle, ran 5 miles at 7:41 pace and 1 mile at 7:00 pace. Heart rate between 150 and 160.

I noted that the first 6.21 miles (10-K) of this run were in 47:26. I'm happy with that for my third week of training (though it is on the treadmill).

Was a little hard at the end but felt great for everything. Really enjoying this. I ran a bit more than last week, which was part of my goal for this week.

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
2.750.000.002.000.004.75

400 m at 6:18 mile pace

3 x 800 m at 6:00 - 6:18 pace

400 m at 6:00 pace

Rest was at 9:00 pace.

Felt awesome.

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
3.200.000.000.000.003.20

Elliptical workout. 37 minutes. Level 13. Felt great.

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
1.130.000.000.002.703.83

Random hill workout on treadmill. Level 10.

5 minutes at 6.0 mph

15 minutes at 6.5 mph

5 minutes at 7.0 mph

This week's hill workout was much better than last week. I hit the edge of what I could do right at the end. So now I have a baseline to build from. Unfortunately, I left my form droop a little at the end. Next week I want to do a similar workout but on level 11.

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
4.250.000.000.000.004.25

As part of this, I ran about 3 miles at 8:00 pace. I felt like running longer but decided to keep it an easy run.

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
1.000.007.000.000.008.00

1 mile warmup and cooldown.

6 miles at 7:30 pace

1 mile at 7:00 pace

I've been increasing the pace slightly each week on my long runs. I'm trying to find the sweet spot where it's fast enough to feel it's a challenge and to energize me but not so fast that it feels like a tempo run. This week felt about right. I don't know if I'll increase the pace much after this for now. I've been adding a mile to my long run each week, and that has been great because I'm not going too long too soon (I hope), but it also helps me feel like I'm progressing.

I've also been trying to increase my weekly mileage each week this year, and this week was a jump of almost 4 miles. Part of it was running instead of playing basketball.

 84 miles for the month. Maybe someday I'll make it on the mileage board. :)

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
38.985.3524.004.2511.5584.13
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