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Location:

South Jordan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jan 09, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

 

All Time
2001 Provo River Half 1:18:25
2000 St. George Marathon 2:46:53
 
45-49 AD
2012 5K - Sandy July 4th 18:33

2011 10K - Des News 36:12,

2011 Provo River Half 1:22:10
2010 UVM 2:58:42

50-54 AD

2015 Scandinavian 10K 42:52,  2015 SLC Haunted 1/2 1:26:14, 2015 SGM 3:06:56

 

 

 

Other
I've run 30 marathons.
Ran Boston in 2003

Short-Term Running Goals:

 

5/25/19 - Scandinavian Days 5K - 20:01

6/8/19 - CornerCanyon Half
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run to stay healthy and happy.

Personal:

Married to a beautiful woman. We have 5 great kids.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 67.80 Year: 252.35
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6.500.000.500.007.00

Morning run, temp 65'

Sad to see the morning light fading away on the early morning runs.  My stomach felt a little quizzy the whole run.  Maybe fasting and then overeating wasn't good.  Anyway, I decided it was time to really run a couple of fast quarters. I ran them both in 68 seconds.  Now if I can do a decent tempo run this week maybe I'll have a little confidence going into Saturdays run.

Time 53:25,  Mile avg. - 7:38

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Morning run, cloudy, temp 75'

It's not suppose to be hot in the morning for my 3 mile tempo run.  Anyway my goal was to average the entire run under 7 minute miles and the 3 miles of tempo run at 6:15 or better.  I accomplished both goals but it wasn't easy.  My 1st mile of the tempo was in 6:18, then I ran a 6:16.  It was time to used my super powers and I gutted out a 6:05 3rd mile for a 6:13 mile avg. on the tempo run.  I haven't been running enough or smart the last month.  This was my 1st tempo run in 3 weeks.  In June I ran a 5:59 avg. tempo run on the same course and todays run was just as hard or harder. 

Time 47:24,  Mile avg. - 6:47

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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Morning run, temp 66'

My legs were just a little tired from yesterdays tempo run, but overall pretty good.

Time 54:20,  Mile avg. - 7:46

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Late noon run, sunny, temp 90'

I fogot I had a lunch & learn at work and I couldn't escape work before that so I went on a easy jog after eating lunch.  I wanted to run one mile a little faster but it didn't take long for my stomach to change that desision. 

Time 33:13,  Mile avg. - 7:55

Provo Half Marathon, here I come!!

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Race: Provo Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:24:55, Place overall: 28, Place in age division: 4
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The last month and a half I haven't trained very well so I wasn't excited about running really hard and killing myself, also, I was in the middle of our wards youth conference and we were going to Seven Peaks water park to finish the youth conference and I didn't want to look to much like an old man.

I decided to run with Tom hoping that he would get around his PB time which would be plenty fast for me.  I hope Tom didn't mind me running with him.  Anyway Tom shot out of the blocks and ran a pretty dang fast first and second mile.  I was wondering at that point if I would be able to stay with him and I was trying to get refocused for a hard tough run.  Luckily for me and not Tom he probably had to much adrenilane going and went out to fast.  We started to slow down to a better pace.  Tom started to lose the edge and running wasn't fun anymore about half way which is way to soon in the race.  I usually get there around the last couple of miles but when you get that close to the finish it is easier to keep pushing and metally grind it out.  Tom, however, did quite well the rest of the race for hitting the dead zone so soon in the race.  I left Tom at about mile 9.5 because I didn't feel like I was helping him at all and I thought he would be able to metally tough it out better without me.  I think I need to work on my motivational guidance if I pace someone in the future.

Mile splits were as follows:

Mile 1-5:48,  Mile 2-6:04,  Mile 3-6:25,  Mile 4-6:05,  Mile 5-6:40,  Mile 6-6:43,  Mile 7-6:25,  Mile 8-6:34,  Mile 9-6:49,  Mile 10-6:22,  Mile 11-6:19,  Mile 12-6:44,  Mile 13-6:43,  Last 0.18-1:13

I started bogging down at the end.  It may have been the lack of sleep due to youth conference the last couple of days or that I just didn't train well as of late.  Anyway, I accomplished my two whippy goals of beating all Manti High graduates of 83 and getting under 1:25.

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