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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
Saucony Grid Type A Lifetime Miles: 94.20
Saucony Fastwitch 7 Blue Lifetime Miles: 132.40
Saucony Fastwitch 7 Red Lifetime Miles: 135.90
New Balance Vazee Summit V2 Black Lifetime Miles: 121.90
Skechers Go Med Speed 4 Lifetime Miles: 36.70
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
64.600.008.000.0072.60
Skechers GoRun 5 Houston Miles: 51.40New Balance Vazee Summit 2 Miles: 21.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.500.000.000.009.50

7:50 ap. 360' gain. Feeling slightly under the weather, so running wasn't a blast today, but I'm glad I got it done.

 

Skechers GoRun 5 Houston Miles: 9.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.000.008.000.008.00

Track. Pretty windy. 6:43 average pace. Harder than marathon effort right now, but not as hard as half marathon effort. 6:43 should be easier, but it's a lot easier than it would have been a few weeks ago.

Skechers GoRun 5 Houston Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.300.000.000.0013.30

Home via a much less buggy jrp. 7:36 AP.

Skechers GoRun 5 Houston Miles: 13.30
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.400.000.000.008.40

Bprb to bosho 5 way and back. 1100' climb, 8:51 average. Started snowing 5 min from turnaround. Very snowy and extremely windy on the return. I had a down vest on and I don't know how things would have worked out without it. Stucks hands in pockets and they still got extremely cold. Bare forearms were fully numb. The massive wind gusts on the exposed trail made every snow hit (dippin dots consistency) sting. Despite the vest, I'd rank this in my top 3 runs of all time for worst preparedness for the conditions. 90 min later, my hands still hurt a lot. Wow.

New Balance Vazee Summit 2 Miles: 8.40
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.500.000.000.0015.50

7:27 average pace. Home from work via yet another iteration of a JRP run.

Skechers GoRun 5 Houston Miles: 15.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.100.000.000.005.10

Easy shortie, though it still had 600' of climbing. Around campus area at 8:13 average pace.

Skechers GoRun 5 Houston Miles: 5.10
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.800.000.000.0012.80

Fairly easy effort running of the Mueller Park / North Canyon link up (with some crappy road linking the beautiful trail). 2040' climb, 9:08 average pace.

 

 

New Balance Vazee Summit 2 Miles: 12.80
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
64.600.008.000.0072.60
Skechers GoRun 5 Houston Miles: 51.40New Balance Vazee Summit 2 Miles: 21.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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