| 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 | | 15.00 | 5.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 23.00 |
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Solid upper body workout at the gym. My decline press max is 40 pounds more than it was a month ago. Strength is coming back fast! After that, went over to East High track and did 3 miles starting around marathon pace and working faster from there. I didn't wear a watch, so I have no idea of the pace, but I imagine I averaged around 6:00 flat. Hip felt good. Looking forward to being able to do long tempo workouts again in the future rather than this 3 mile nonsense. Went to the salt flats with my brother later. Holly had a lot of fun. 
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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 |
| Hiked some miles with my brother Brennan at Alta. We were up close to dark, so we ran the last mile back downhill. Did some weights earlier in the day. |
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| A lot of leg weights and a little bit of upper body. |
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| Similar to Monday. Got in a mile of running while hiking with Brennan near sunset. Also had a great day of lifting... Got my decline press back up to 200 pounds. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 miles in about 32 minutes. Hip felt pretty good. Also did some lifting beforehand. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
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13 miles with Kevin, which involved some hiking and huffing and puffing up really hard trails. Started with a nice 4000' uphill on the Desolation Trail, which is outrageously overgrown and rocky right now, which Kevin really enjoyed. We followed that through all of Porter Fork, which is beautiful right now, but extremely technical and frequently un-runnable, which Kevin liked even more. He commented that it would be good for working his leg speed velocity. The plunge down Porter Fork was steep and overgrown, and Kevin thought it would be really useful specific training for when he runs a marathon that has over 20,000' of vertical descent. The last couple miles on Porter Fork Road and Mill Creek Road were nice, but Kevin's quads were beat up by that point, so he thought that it was extra fun. Overall, I would say that Kevin loved the outing and will be dying to get out on trails with me again in the future. Kevin had 12.75 on his Garmin, but it was exactly a quarter mile short of the official trail mileage on one section, so I'm calling it 13 in 2:42 (my time is 5 minutes shorter than his, as I was bombing the downhills to get ahead so I could sit down for a minute and rest my hip while waiting) At least for me, this run had nothing to do with pace and everything to do with time on feet. I pushed my hip for nearly 3 hours on super gnarly terrain and it was very close to totally fine. This is extraordinarily good news. I, of course, had some ibuprofen in my system, which undoubtedly helped, but I just got a prescription from Matt Poulsen for some more long term anti-inflammatories, so I'm hopeful that I'll be able to really start building back up here. Note to everyone on here: In all seriousness, don't run trails with me unless we've discussed what the trails consist of beforehand. I have literally zero common sense as to what most people consider to be a "good" or "enjoyable" trail.
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Started taking an NSAID prescription from Matt Poulsen. Will see how much this helps. Took the day off to be safe after a longer outing yesterday. Good upper body work at the gym. Hung out with Kevin, Fritz, Amiee, etc tonight and got to be designated driver for some of Kevin's other friends, so had a late night. Will sleep in really late tomorrow to catch up and then see how my hip responds to some moderate mileage with the methylprednisolone in my system. Next month will be really busy with tutoring, but I'm excited to pack in some more running. Note that while this week is slightly lower running mileage than last week, I hiked quite a bit with my brother, who has been in town, so I actually put a moderate amount more time on my hip than I did in the previous week. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.00 | 5.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 23.00 |
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