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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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Skechers GoRun 4 Blue - A Bit Too Big, But Free Lifetime Miles: 105.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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First real run since Phoenix Marathon 8 days ago.  Running sick did a number on my body and seems to have set me up for a long recovery process.  Legs still felt hammered from about 2 miles in today.  Did a group run with Jake, Fritz, Nate, and Rossy south from Highland High.  They wanted 10, I wanted a little less.  After 4 miles or so, they did a 1 mile-ish loop around some park, so I skipped this mile in favor of stretching out my legs.  We had averaged low 7 up to this point, but picked it up afterwards with a 6:5x and then a 6:44, at which point, my legs had had enough.  That one mile in 6:44 (17 seconds/mile slower than what I averaged in the marathon 8 days ago) felt like 5k/10k effort after 6 miles of running, which was a little scary.  Hah.  The group seemed to want to keep running sub-7s, which I had no interest in whatsoever, so I let them take off and dropped my pace to 7:45 for the last 2.5 miles.  There are days to push and days to just listen to your body, and today was definitely the latter.  I hit 8.5 miles in 62 flat and had to sit down for a few minutes to rest my trashed quads and calves.  I didn't expect to feel great today, but I was a little surprised at just how bad I felt.  I guess I've never simply taken 8 days off after a marathon before, so I think having had an active recovery would've been helpful.  That said, the major factor here was probably just being sick.  I was still feeling it in my sinuses yesterday, 7 days after the marathon and 10 days after first getting sick, but I think running today finally cleared everything out for the most part.  At the very least, it can only get better from here. :)

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.000.000.000.003.00

3 miles really easy as part of a date, red butte area trails.  Legs felt great compared to yesterday except that I slipped in mud and bashed my knee on a rock, which was actually quite painful.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

 Super easy, with the pooch.  73  degrees, she didn't really want to run.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.004.009.00

Workout with Bill Mennel, who is in town at his parents' condo up at Solitude.  2 mile jog up city creek, 2 miles down hard in 10:02 (5:02, 5:00).  2 mile jog up, 2 mile down hard in 10:06 (5:02, 5:04).  Felt good, but getting sore in the last hard mile.  1 mile cooldown.   Made this specific for Running of the Leopards next week, but it was about 1% steeper downhill, so a little faster.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.500.000.000.004.50

Easy run with Holly, just recovering from the previous day's workout.  Keeping mileage light until after the 5k next weekend.

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