| 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 | | 34.18 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 38.18 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.43 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 14.43 |
| 20km hike near Usa River in the morning, then helped out with the final things at TCDC.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| 2 miles at 5:40 pace at TCDC in Tanzania. Didn't have a chance to run for 2 weeks after this. Afterwards, went out for a safari in Arusha National Park. Pictures are borrowed from Paul Howell, Daria's student at Engineering World Health who came on the trip with us.
Babboons:
Babboon family:
Blue Monkey:
Can't remember this bird's name, but the whole perched in thorns thing looked really cool:
Giraffe:
Baby giraffe:
Paul taking photos of giraffes (my camera this time);
Flamingos:
Zebra:
Water buck skull:
Overall, a really really cool day. Stayed the night in Arusha, where we found a surprisingly good burger place.
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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 |
| Little shopping in Arusha, back from Arusha to Moshi, then spent the day before starting the climb in Moshi. Browsed the used clothing market, had a drink on top of the Kindoroko Hotel, and then ate dinner with our guides at IndoItaliano, which had better Indian food than anywhere I've been in the US.
Kili is so big that the upper 3/4 is almost always covered in cloud. We got a lucky view of the peak from Kindoroko. I've never seen anything on this scale in my life, and now that I'm back in Utah, our mountains seem absolutely tiny. Take some prominent "massive" peaks in Utah like Olympus, quadruple their gain, and you get Kilimanjaro, which rises more than 16200' above nearby Moshi:
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.84 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.84 |
| Kilimanjaro day 1. Not so hard. 11 km from 5380 up to 9842.
Monkey before the start:
Starting gate:
Climbing:
Cold at night:
Really cold at night:
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.11 |
| Kilimanjaro Day 2: Woke up with a clogged sinus. Frustrating. 5km, steep, from 9842' to 13123' and back down to 12500'.
Porter with a Deer Valley jacket spotted at the beginning of the day:
Insane view along the way:
Holding up the mountain:
Creepy raven at Shira Cave campsite:
Such a gorgeous sunset:
Daria massaged my sinuses for literally an hour up at Shira Cave camp to help them drain out, and I'm convinced that it saved my trip.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.21 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.21 |
| Kilimanjaro Day 3: 10km. 12500' to 15190' and then back down to 12960' to sleep (going around the side of the mountain from Shira Cave Camp to Baranco via Lava Tower). Getting above 15000' was tough. We were going very very slowly, but still made the trip 30+% faster than recommended.
Blue skies early in the day.
Looking towards the peak:
Weathered outhouses en route to Lava Tower:
Lava Tower:
Back downhill:
Backside of Uhuru from Baranco:
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.59 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.59 |
| Day 4 of Kilimanjaro: A very tough 9km. 12960' up to 13780', up a nearly sheer face (Baranco Wall) with some difficult sections, then an extremely rolling net downhill to 12467' (Karanga), followed by a very tough climb up to 15331' (Barafu).
Going up Baranco Wall:
Porters on the wall:
Uhuru from the top of the wall:
Happy to be in Karanga for lunch:
Crazy rocks between Karanga and Barafu:
Very misty between Karanga and Barafu:
Daria sad about the heavy winds and snow coming down at Barafu:
The plan was to eat dinner at 4 PM in Barafu, go to bed very early, sleep until 11 PM, and then summit starting at midnight, but the porter carrying the cooking equipment (just an 18 year old kid!) got sick from the altitude around 14500' and Emmanuel, the lead guide, had to go down to help him up with the equipment, so dinner was delayed until 7 PM or so, and we didn't get back to the tent until 8:30. It took 30 minutes to get to bed, and the altitude was messing with my body (light headache, constant trickling nosebleed, and some stomach issues), so I woke up at 10:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. Oh well, off for a summit on an hour and a half of sleep!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 34.18 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 38.18 |
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