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Location:

Bountiful,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jan 24, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Winner of 1994 Teton Dam Half Marathon, 1:25:01.

Best Marathon: 3:23:40. (Deseret News 2006).

Completed Utah Grand Slam (2006).

Completed 8 Marathons in 1 year, the last four were each two weeks apart.

Marathons to date: 25.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay Healthy

Sub 3:15 Marathon

Train consistently

Finish in the top 10% at all races 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 3 hr marathon

Complete a 100 miler

1st Overall at any race

 

 

Personal:

Hi, my name is Matt and I love to run! I especially enjoy trail running. I am married to Susie and we have six children Connor-10, Jed-8, Jaxine-7, Evan-4, Eliza-2, and Susanna-0. Look for me at your next race, I wear the same bright yellow Twinkies shirt at all my races.

Favorite Course: Mid-Mountain Marathon, Park City, Utah

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Sat, Jul 03, 2010
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.820.000.000.009.82

Busy day. I wasn't able to get out for a run until 6 p.m. I ran up the Parrish Creek all the way to Skyline drive. This trail is an uphill grind. Some of it I was able to run, but there were section that I had to walk. About four miles up the trail I found that some adventurous bikers had built a series of jumps. One of which looked very dangerous. No bikers were out today. though. I made it up to Skyline Drive in 1 hr 30 min. I wanted to continue on to Bountiful Peak, but I didn't have enough time. I came back down in 50 min. This trail has a lot of swicthbacks that make it really fun to run down.

Comments
From Bryce on Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 00:18:22 from 174.52.190.220

Must have been pretty hot out there at that time of day! Sounds like alot of vertical for the miles. Happy 4th

From Twinkies on Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 00:24:37 from 67.166.116.191

The temp wasn't too bad. I was in and out of forested areas. The vert was just under 4000 ft of climbing. The same again going down.

From jun on Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 17:25:59 from 97.126.224.226

OK, what's that road/trail to the right on the other ridge and what is the trail going across the top of the pic? We need to run both of those, like pronto. Thanks for going this morning.

From Twinkies on Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 00:18:56 from 67.166.116.191

What you can see at the top is Skyline drive. There is a trail that you can't see in the picture that sort of goes along it. On the right is also Skyline Drive. There is a trail that goes up the ridge just to the right of Skyline drive called the Buckland Ridge Trail. It runs into the Tuttle Loop trail. All of these are great to run on. So many trails...so little time.

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