| 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 | | 71.50 | 0.00 | 10.00 | 1.00 | 82.50 |
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| RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 42.80 | RETIRED Nike Zoom Streak LT2 Miles: 8.70 | RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #2 Miles: 30.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 21.00 |
| AM: 20 miles with James and Allie, who themselves did slightly more. Pace was easy, probably about 7:40-7:45, which felt extremely pleasant, although I forgot my watch, Allie didn't have one, and James accidentally stopped his for 5.6 miles in the middle. Route was SE Liberty to JRP to 4500 south, up along the above road, back to 4500, along to 9th, back to 9th, back to Liberty, loop of Liberty, back to James and Allie's for Allie to grab her Saucony test shoes, and back to my car. Legs were tired before I started, but the run didn't make them more tired at all really, which is good, considering that this is probably my 2nd to last long run before Phoenix.
PM: Ski day #32 of the season. Legs were actually not so tired, but now that I'm home, I'm ready to be done with physical activity for the day. :)
Later PM: I lied about being done with physical activity for the day. Haha. Walked Holly to Memory Grove and wanted to get her to really burn off some energy, so I did ~30 hard sprints (50-ish meters a piece) with her, wearing jeans and moccasins. Hah.
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| RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 20.00 |
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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 | | 8.70 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.70 |
| Same loop as Friday (9th/21st/11th), but legs felt super tired, so I took it extremely slow (8:13 average pace). Brought Holly.
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| RETIRED Nike Zoom Streak LT2 Miles: 8.70 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.80 |
| 11.8 miles, 7:18 average pace. Quads were still somewhat sore from doing a bit much over Wed-Sunday, but loosened up throughout the run. My place to 9th to 33rd to 5th to my place.
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| RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 11.80 |
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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 | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Took the day off. Only looking for ~80 this week to avoid overdoing it, and I still have another workout planned, so figured I'd take the day to rest.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 10 miles in a little under 67 on a treadmill at the gym. New A6 felt good.
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #2 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| Now THAT was a workout. Left the lab, did 9 miles on roads at 7:02 pace (through campus, to Sugarhouse, around the park, back to campus, mini campus loop to wind up at 9 at the gym), immediately onto a treadmill for 10 miles in 58:54 (5:53 pace), and then 1 mile cooldown via a roundabout route back to the lab (extremely slow, 10:15 pace, to really shake everything out). I took 1 gel at mile 9 and that was it. I felt really smooth, but had to dig pretty deep (not marathon racing deep, but pretty deep for a workout) over the last 2 miles of the tempo portion. I just wanted to get that 10 mile portion under 60, so to have under 59 was extremely encouraging. At this point, the hard work is done, so I'll probably do ~10 tomorrow (likely with the group), and then it'll be taper time.
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #2 Miles: 20.00 |
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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 | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| AM: 11 miles with Holly in addition to a decent sized group (Jake, Jon Kotter, Josh, Rob, Kramer, and one of Rob's other athletes whose name I didn't catch). HHS to Tanner to Wasatch to Zoo loop, to Foothill, back to HHS, finishing with a little loop to get it up to 11. Holly stopped to poop about 20 seconds into the run, so I started by playing catchup and didn't get back to the group until almost the mile mark, after losing a full minute. When up on Wasatch, Holly stopped to poop again right as the guys were picking it up a little bit. This time, her poop bag had a hole in it, which I didn't initially realize, so I ended up finishing the run with dog crap on my hands. This was not pleasant. Also, I lost another minute+ here and ended up having to drop the pace into the 5:40s on a long flat section to catch up. My legs were pretty tired from last night's workout, but it was nice to see that I could comfortably get it going that fast. Overall pace was 7:04 for the 11 miles with 775' of gain (775' of both gain and loss is only enough to slow the run down a hair over 2 minutes, but that's still significant), so probably not as easy as it should've been after the workout, but whatever. Taper starts now, so I have 2 weeks to recover. :)
Looking back at the last 14 weeks, I've only had one week lower than 70 (the week of my dissertation proposal), giving me a total of 1 week in the 50s, 9 weeks in the 70s, and 4 weeks in the 80s. I think this has been perfect for me. I've averaged 73.5 miles/week for 14 weeks, 75.3/week discounting the one down week, and have been remarkably consistent from week to week. My biggest week has been 87 miles, so I've avoided the temptation to overdo it. This week, I saw myself going over 90 if I didn't take a day off, so I made the smat decision to take a day off. Overall, this is both the smartest and most consistent training I've ever had for a marathon, so as long as I don't do anything stupid in the next 2 weeks (which I won't) and as long as I show up healthy at the starting line (will be washing my hands a LOT over the next 2 weeks to avoid a repeat of last year), I should be ready for a very nice PR. My legs were tired after today's run, but they just feel strong and I have the sense that they will be ready for something special as soon as I get to the starting line in 14 days.
PM: Ski day #33 of the season. Legs were really tired and the snow was really heavy due to high temps, so it could've been better. Only stayed there for like 90 minutes.
Later PM: 3 mile hike/walk with Holly in City Creek Canyon.
Really tired now. Time to watch Olympics. :)
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| RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 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 | | 71.50 | 0.00 | 10.00 | 1.00 | 82.50 |
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| RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 42.80 | RETIRED Nike Zoom Streak LT2 Miles: 8.70 | RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #2 Miles: 30.00 |
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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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