| 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 | | 64.90 | 4.00 | 1.00 | 0.20 | 70.10 |
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 Miles: 55.30 | RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 14.80 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Took the day off after skiing at Deer Valley! Snow was AMAZING.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| 7 miles easy with Holly. Capital and Aves loop, didn't wear a watch, so I don't know the exact pace, but probably about 7:30. An hour later, 4 more miles on a treadmill at 6:00 pace.
I went to the student health center this morning and was found to be quite healthy other than the cough (lung capacity literally off the charts, HR of 45, not fully at rest) and I was diagnosed as simply having crap from the recently polluted air still stuck in my lungs (I guess it can take a full month to clear the system). After exertion, my airways get irritated and constrict, leading to the coughing. Despite not having asthma, I got a prescription an asthma inhaler, which I will have to use before my runs (and after, if I start coughing), likely for the remainder of the winter, assuming the air doesn't stay like how it's been for the last few days. I used the inhaler for the first time before the fast miles and found myself breathing easier than usual at 6:00 pace. I noticed that the overall effort seemed slightly easier than it typically does at that pace, but completely forgot that I had used the inhaler until a little while later. Apparently being able to breath better makes a difference. Who'd have thought? After the run, I had a cough, but it was reduced, so that's good.
I'm going to go easy tomorrow, as I'm planning on a massive workout on Wednesday. Time to rest up well for 2 nights.
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 Miles: 11.00 |
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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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
| 10 with Holly at ~7:30 pace (wasn't wearing watch), my place to 9th to 27th to 5th to my place loop, immediately followed by jog to grocery store and back for a couple things.
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 Miles: 10.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 25.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.20 | 26.20 |
| Annual Indoor Treadmill Marathon #2. Last year, about the same time out from Phoenix, I hopped on a treadmill and ran 26.2 miles in 2:53:4x. I decided a few days back that this was the ideal week to do it as my workout, so I did it tonight. Time was 2:45:32. Last year, when I ran the 2:53, I was hurting over the last 2 miles or so and couldn't pick up the pace. In Phoenix, I was sick, but still ran nearly 4 minutes faster with a 2:50:00.1. Tonight's 2:45:32 felt very relaxed. I picked up the pace about 5 seconds per mile on miles 24 and 25, went another 25 seconds faster on mile 26, and then ran the last .2 at 4:57 pace. Now, an hour later, my legs feel completely fine other than a tiny blister on the front of my right middle toe (just an air blister).
This was a major confidence booster. I planned on running in the ballpark of, but no faster than, 2:45, so I hit that spot on, but it felt a lot more relaxed than I anticipated. Splits were 63:41 for the first 10, 63:27 for the second 10, and 38:24 for the last 10k 19:04 for 20 to 23, 12:30 for 24 and 25, 5:50 for 26, and :59 for 26 to 26.2). So yeah, I think sub-2:40 is very realistic come Phoenix.
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 Miles: 26.20 |
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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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Recovery run with Holly, Koren, and Megan at 5:30 AM. 5 miles, 8:59 pace. A little hilly, but still quite nice and easy.
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| RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.80 |
| Stupidly hilly aves/fed heights/aves/memory grove loop (nearly a perimeter loop) with Holly at mid 8's pace to stay above the inversion. Hills included Virginia all the way up to the top at Tomahawk and Terrace Hills all the way up to 18th, among others. Garmin was nearly dead at the start and started beeping low battery a mile in, but it got within 7 tenths of a mile from the finish before it died. Legs are a little fatigued still from 2 days ago, but that was expected, and actually, they felt better than I would have expected them to.
My recovery from the 26.2 mile workout has actually been meticulously planned out. I didn't want to take any days off, but wanted maximal recovery, so I did 5 miles very easy at 5:30 in the morning yesterday, and then put off my run until nearly 10 PM tonight, so I had nearly 40 full hours off of running without taking a day off. I'll do easy runs for the next couple days to ensure that I'm fully recovered. Doing 26.2 at 15-20 seconds per mile off goal marathon pace as a workout would be a bad idea without proper recovery, so I'm going to make sure that I'm being smart and listening to my body very carefully over the next couple days.
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| RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 9.80 |
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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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.60 |
| AM: Ski day #23. Legs still slightly tired. Pretty bad snow. :( Pm: 7.6. Aves, Fed Heights, Capital Hill with Holly. Low to mid 7s. Lazy with distance; made sure to get above 70 for the week. |
| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 Miles: 7.60 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 64.90 | 4.00 | 1.00 | 0.20 | 70.10 |
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 Miles: 55.30 | RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 14.80 |
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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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