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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,United States

Member Since:

Dec 08, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

13.1: 1:09:58 (2018 Des News)

26.2: 2:37:45 (2019 Mesa Phoenix)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy!

 

2019 Running Schedule

Feb - Mesa Phoenix Marathon (AZ): 2:37:45. Lingering flu didn't help, but I still got a PR.

April - Bonneville Shoreline Trail Marathon (UT). Mostly just going to be a training run. Finally got myself into the sub-4 club last year, so I'll just have fun with it this year.

May - Stillwater Half Marathon (MN). Goal race for Spring. Looking for ~1:12.

October- Chicago Marathon (IL). We'll see where I'm at in Fall, but probably will be looking for low 2:30s.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy, make improvements, maximize my potential.

Personal:

I am a bioengineering PhD currently working as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah, where I design and improve neurosurgical approaches for treating movement disorders.


Summer 2018 update: I'm lazy about copying over from Strava, so find me over there for day-to-day runs until I eventually get around to copying everything over here.

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Skechers GoRun 4 Blue - A Bit Too Big, But Free Lifetime Miles: 105.80
Saucony Grid Type A Lifetime Miles: 94.20
Saucony Fastwitch 7 Blue Lifetime Miles: 132.40
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Skechers Go Med Speed 4 Lifetime Miles: 36.70
Race: St George Marathon (26.2 Miles) 02:49:16, Place overall: 53
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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I survived! I'm overweight, I trained poorly (21.7 miles a week for the 50 days leading up to St George, not counting the hiking mileage in Africa), and I'm overall in bad shape. That said, I performed reasonably well for where I was at. This was my 2nd fastest marathon, but my PR (2:42:07 in bad conditions on a harder course) is a vastly superior performance. Anyway, I think I've got the effort and nutrition figured out pretty well for marathons now. As usual, I avoided dairy the day before, went to the bathroom 3 times before the start, ate 2 large bananas, some juice, and a 200 calorie granola bar before hand. During the race, I had gels at 6, 12, and 18, and slowly sucked part of a 4th around 24. I'd normally have one more, but I didn't feel like I needed it. I had pretty even splits (1:24:27, 1:25:19, although a negative split here would be ideal) and kept it sensible. Honestly though, even if I had gone out slower, I doubt I'd have been able to close any faster, as I'm just not strong right now. Hip was a little irritated in the last 12, but never bad. My shoes are pretty worn, so my feet hurt a bit in the last 2 miles. Overall, this was a lot less painful than my 2:42 in Phoenix since I didn't quite push myself as hard. I probably had it in me to make it a minute or two faster, but I just didn't want to kill myself for a slightly faster time that would still be well off a PR. Overall, I think that while climbing Kilimanjaro severely impacted my training (took 2 weeks, never got serious about it once I returned, and, for whatever reason, left my legs just feeling really week for a long time), it was mentally helpful here and will be mentally helpful in the future. Climbing/freezing/struggling to stay awake for 6 hours in complete darkness on summit day with extremely low oxygen was, at least for me, far harder than any marathon I've done and I kept thinking about that during this race. Thoughts like "I suffered worse than this for 6 hours straight back in August... another hour of pain isn't nearly as big of a deal." definitely made the marathon feel a lot easier. In any case, I will take the next one more seriously.

 

RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 26.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From SpencerSimpson on Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 12:22:20 from 50.192.204.186

Collin, nice effort today with everything going on in your life. You got a lot of good ones ahead of you. Way to go today. Good run for all its worth. MIH

From Josh E on Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 10:40:02 from 205.235.104.4

St George finally. Nice race all things considered. I am sure you wouldn't trade the awesome summer for a better time.

Hopefully I can get back out there with you again before too long.

From CollinAnderson on Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 10:46:54 from 155.98.15.26

Thanks. And yeah, definitely not. A marathon is just a marathon at this point. Climbing Kilimanjaro was way better than running a PR. :) Is your hip most of the way back now or still pretty iffy? Anyway, I promised myself after the marathon that I'll stop missing any days of running, except under very extreme circumstances (basically, only skip a day if I'm really sick), so I'm going to make a point to be really consistent again this winter. So yeah, hope you can join in soon.

From Josh E on Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:13:59 from 205.235.104.4

The good news is I don't have a significant injury but I will likely be dealing with high hamstring tendinosis for the rest of my running days. The doc said I might have a trace of it now and it can only be treated, not completely cleared. In fact, treatment on the internet starts with the word prevention. I could have avoided it with earlier treatment but I can live with it.

So, I need to unwind all the irritation this has caused and strengthen those areas. I am still in the early stages but I suspect it may come along quickly.

From Matt Poulsen on Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 21:48:00 from 50.168.224.197

Nicely done, Collin!

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