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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
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
Saucony Fastwitch 7 Red Lifetime Miles: 135.90
New Balance Vazee Summit V2 Black Lifetime Miles: 121.90
Skechers Go Med Speed 4 Lifetime Miles: 36.70
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
17.200.000.000.0017.20

Well, that sucked.  Was going to do a longer run (20-22), but I didn't deal well with the heat today (I was probably a pound or two dehydrated when I started), so I cut it down to 17.2 miles.  I knew by mile 2.5 that it was going to be a long day.  It was 92 when I started, and the humidity next to the JRP made things worse.  I brought a 20 oz water bottle with the intention of refilling it, but the fountain I planned to fill it from at mile 9.5-ish was broken.  I had already run out at like mile 7, and didn't get to fill it again until 12.5, at which point I felt like a zombie, and had to spend a fair amount of time sitting on a curb drinking / just sitting there just to feel OK again.  The last miles were very unpleasant, as even with some water back in me, I was just sapped.  I didn't bring my Garmin, so I'm not sure how long I stopped, but not factoring the stop out of my time, AP would've been about 8:20.  Yeah, really ugly.  I suspect the actual moving pace was more like 8:00, as I hit virtually every single light today, in addition to the 5+ minutes I was stopped for.  I planned on going easy, but I definitely slowed a lot at the end.  Finished the run 6 pounds lighter than I started, even after supposedly rehydrating. Anyway, here was the route:

 

RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 17.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Quintus Cassadamius on Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 16:36:17 from 24.10.247.181

Lotta whining today! At least y'all have a dry heat out in Utah. My old pal Benji would have been out in that wearing a couple trash bags.

From CollinAnderson on Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 16:39:33 from 24.10.254.247

Hahahaha. Other people disliked the heat? It actually was quite humid (at least for Utah) along the JRP trail where I was running. By the time I got off that path, the damage was done and I was already pretty destroyed.

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