| 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 | | 40.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 40.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| Started from Highland, did the first 7 with Jake, Kevin, Rob, Andrea, and Allie, then ran over to Sugarhouse Park for some laps (what was it, 5?). I guess 5 laps makes sense considering that we were at 14.3 when we got back to Highland. I hate ending at weird numbers like that, so I jogged the perimeter of Highland to get it up to 15. I accidentally stopped my watch at 14.3 (1:48), but I would figure another 5 minutes or so for the slow/snowy extra bit, so probably about 1:53. Not particularly quick, but I was sore from the workout and skiing yesterday, so it was enough to make my legs feel a bit beat and give me a light headache at the end (surprisingly similar to when I just haven't done any running of value and try to do my first long run back, but I suspect this was only because I only had a couple Sports Beans and a Clif Bar for breakfast beforehand, with the run starting at 11:30...) What can I say? I didn't get up until 10 and then just lay in bed on my computer for another 45 minutes. Hah. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Really frustrating. Either getting sick again or still sick from 2 weeks ago. Did about 1 mile, had a pounding headache and a totally sore body, so I decided not to fight it and went home to sleep for 10 hours. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Had to run across campus several times, so I literally ran. Not really a good day of running, but whatever. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| I was still feeling a little rundown and also lazy over the last few days. Bad air quality + lingering virus that won't seem to go away 100% + surprisingly cold weather = laziness I guess. Ran with Fritz, Kevin, Chad, and Adam for the first 10-ish (after starting a little late and having to run hard at the start to catch up as they had already taken off... hah..), and then Fritz and Kevin the rest of the way. I think Fritz said it was 19.8 or 19.9. My watch was at 2:16:xx (probably 40 something... had 2:17:0x, but forgot to stop my watch when we got caught at a light for 20 seconds). Felt good up until 17.5-ish when I started to bonk. It probably didn't help that my "breakfast" consisted of one gel and my nutrition during the run consisted of one more gel. I gradually got dropped by Fritz and Kevin, but caught back up, until I got dropped again a couple minutes later. At that point, I was just fighting to keep running, so I lost about a minute on them at the end. Felt terrible afterwards, but whatever, lesson learned (how many times do I have to learn my lesson about actually getting out of bed early enough to eat breakfast before I do a long run? Hahaha...). Bonking sucks, but I think it was more because of nutrition than fitness. Still, today was a reminder that I should not be lazy over the remainder of my marathon training. If I start to bonk at mile 18 when I'm doing 26.2 instead of 20, things will get a lot uglier. As for my logging option, this effort would convert to 2:09:30 or so on the Phoenix course at lower altitude, so in all fairness, it wasn't all that far off marathon effort (based on the last few weeks sucking, I'm thinking that 6:20s will be a good goal pace for the gentle course at Phoenix). |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 40.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 40.00 |
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