| 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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 61.10 | 0.00 | 10.50 | 0.00 | 71.60 |
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| RETIRED Skechers Meb Speed 3 Murica Miles: 23.00 | RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 48.60 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Treadmill. 7:11 AP.
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| RETIRED Skechers Meb Speed 3 Murica Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Treadmill run, mostly around 7:15, but with 3 half mile pickups at about 6:20, 6:15, and 6:10 pace. Overall AP of about 7:04.
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| RETIRED Skechers Meb Speed 3 Murica Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.80 |
| Very snowy city creek and BOSHO trails with Fritz, Roo, and Holly. Dogs definitely did more distance than we did, especially in the first half, when they were sprinting back and forth. Altimeter says I had 1860' climb, which is clearly a huge overestimate. My recolllection from this route in the past is that it's only about 1200', with just under 1000' from low point to high point and a bit of roll. I must have just accidentally measured altitude gain while I was driving as well, as it's usually pretty good.
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| RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 5.80 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| 9 miles in NSL/Bountiful. Up Orchard to 500 South to 500 West and back. I wore trail shoes because the people that live on Orchard in Bountiful, as a whole, really could not care less about leaving massive sheets of ice all over their sidewalks. In all seriousness, I have never been anywhere else in the world where the inhabitants are so inconsiderate in terms of their blatant disregard for other peoples' safety. Basically, it was at least 50% a trail run. Oh well. With these shoes, I was fine. Nice and easy effort with a 7:58 AP over a route with 340' gain.
I was awarded second grant for my postdoctoral work this past week (this time, a fellowship from the National Ataxia Foundation), so I'm off to a great start there and probably don't need to put in 75 hour weeks in the immediate future like I did the week before last. In the last couple weeks, I've also really reprioritized my time on weeknights, so this combination of factors should allow me to spend a bit more time focusing on getting back into shape.
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| RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| Snowy/icy run with Billy Mennell. High 7s. Billy is even more out of shape than I am. Haha.
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| RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 5.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.30 |
| 7:45 AP, about 300' of gain. Mostly on snowy trails. Through echo lake, wildridge, katherine abbot, OH trail, and back with more of a full loop through katherine abbot. These Vazee Summit shoes have been absolutely fantastic on snow and ice. Good job, New Balance.
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| RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 4.30 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 35 degrees and very rainy = 20+ year old dreadmill facing up against a wall (will move otherwise) in the basement. Screen wouldn't turn on, but speed is manually set on a sliding analog bar. Hah. Mile 1 at 6:40, mile 2 at 6:20, miles 3 and 4 at max of 6. Too fast for me to get bored of looking at a blank wall 1 ft in front of my face for 25 min. :)
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| RETIRED Skechers Meb Speed 3 Murica Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Pretty nippy out there. 19 and a windchill of 2 degrees. Yesterday's heavy rain froze, but unlike in UT, MN actually does something about ice and the moderate to major roads were pretty good. The sidewalk near the ball fields that are closed for winter was just ridiculous, so it's impressive that they managed to clear most of everything else so well. Back roads definitely got a bit sketchy, as did a few chunks of the paved trail outside Katherine Abbott park. Parents' house to Warner, up to Maple, down to Mahtomedi, to Quail, to Briarwood, to Hallam, to Juniper, to Park Ave, and back. Wind gusts only got into the 30s, but it felt pretty crazy when snow was blowing in the light of far-away headlights. Good times. AP was slow, slow, slow (8:30 or 8:40). No desire to run remotely fast today, especially with the chance of a random patch of ice here or there.
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| RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Resting legs after 4 days in a row.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Dunbar - Long Lake - Lincolntown - Robert - Chatham - Warner - Stillwater - East - Hickory / 80th - Jamaca - Gateway - Stillwater - Lincolntown - Long Lake - Dunbar
Apple GPS is not great. The last 2 runs have been within 0.01 of mapmyrun measurement, but the few runs prior to that measured as much as 5% off, but short and long.
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| RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 1 mile easy to gym then 5 at 6:30 on indoor track. The air is disgusting. Thanks for caring, Utah politicians.
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| RETIRED Skechers Meb Speed 3 Murica Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| North Canyon (from top of Canyon Creek Road) up 1800' of climb to Rudy's Flat and back with Holly. Last 1.5 up was soooooo snowy, so super super slow. Always fun to be running and suddenly sink thigh deep into the snow. :)
Holly had a pretty outstanding snow beard afterwards:
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| RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 61.10 | 0.00 | 10.50 | 0.00 | 71.60 |
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| RETIRED Skechers Meb Speed 3 Murica Miles: 23.00 | RETIRED New Balance Vazee Summit Miles: 48.60 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
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