| 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 | | 185.80 | 3.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 189.80 |
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| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 71.80 | RETIRED Saucony Shay XC3 Red Miles: 4.00 | RETIRED Skechers GoMeb Speed 2 - Chevron Houston Marathon Edition Miles: 29.90 | RETIRED Adidas Adizero Boost Miles: 31.20 | RETIRED Skechers GoRun 3 Black Miles: 24.00 | RETIRED Skechers Go Run 2 Orange Miles: 25.90 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Longest run in awhile and leg didn't hurt at all! My place up Orchard to 2600 to 89 and back, with Holly. Didn't wear a watch, but checked the clock before and after. Kept it nice and easy, 41 minutes for 5.0.
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| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 5.00 |
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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 | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Treadmill. About 7:30 AP.
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| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 4.00 |
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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 | | 7.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.10 |
| 7:07 AP. With Fritz, Josh, JP, and two new guys. Leg didn't hurt. |
| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 7.10 |
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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 | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Playing it safe. Just jogged a speed round of disc golf.
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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 | | 4.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.20 |
| Out and back on Orchard with Holly, pretty late (10:30). Leg felt vaguely funny, but my whole hip assembly felt a little off balance, so it's probably just the legs were just a bit off balance. I guess I'll see how it feels tomorrow. I hope I can start getting some longer mileage soon!
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| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 4.20 |
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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 | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Jogged a speedplay of disc golf.
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| RETIRED Saucony Shay XC3 Red Miles: 1.00 |
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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 | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Leg was potentially slightly off, so I took a couple days to evaluate. Felt fine on this tester run.
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| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 2.00 |
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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 | | 10.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
| 8.5 with Fritz, JP, and Dan. About 500' of total gain on the Wasatch out and back at 7:01 AP. Felt harder than it should've, but that was expected with my complete and total lack of any semblance of fitness. Then, played 40 holes of disc golf at Creekside and jogged between all of my shots for another 2 miles. Finally, I skied for a few hours. Active day, but leg was 100% fine other than a very minor twinge about 2 miles into the run. I'm beginning to become confident that it is actually healed and the only things I feel in it are just related to scar tissue bugging me.
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| RETIRED Saucony Shay XC3 Red Miles: 2.00 | RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 8.50 |
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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 | | 7.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.40 |
| Pretty sick this past week. Chills/body aches/upset stomach, sore throat, messed up sinuses, etc. Felt good to get back out today. 7.4 with Fritz, Dan, JP, and Josh at 7:28 pace. Memory Grove to 11th to Virginia to South Temple to 3rd west, and back.
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| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 7.40 |
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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 | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| I haven't really been running lately, which sucks, but I've been struggling to find the time. Had time today, but I'm in such bad shape that going out for even a 10 miler seems unpleasant. Did 6, out and back, on Orchard, at about 7:00 pace on the dot. I'm going to try to make an effort to start running at lunch, as that's probably about the only time I can over the next month, unless I'm getting up at 5:00 or 5:30, and I'm never able to get to bed early enough to make that happen. For the mean time, I'm getting rid of any deulsions of racing any time soon. I'll just get in some miles first.
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| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 6.00 |
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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 | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Speed round of disc golf. Shot a -3 on 9 holes in 14 minutes. Pretty fun to play this way. Running between shots only affected one hole, in which I missed an easy par putt due to rushing and got a bogie, costing me a -4.
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| RETIRED Saucony Shay XC3 Red Miles: 1.00 |
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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 | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Ran an errand, literally.
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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 |
| Didn't run, but shot another -3 at U of U while waiting for Daria's UBEC poster to finish printing.
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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 | | 9.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| Longest run in months! 12 miles, out and back on Orchard, at 7:07 AP. First 9 were 7:19 average, and last 3 were 6:29 average, which isn't actually marathon pace, but it feels like it right now. Skechers are at 410.6 miles now and still going!
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| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 12.00 |
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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 | | 7.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.40 |
| Out the door before 7 am! It seems that AM is the time for me to run. Very easy pace... 8:06 average. Still slow, even with a fair amount of uphill. I'm so slow moving in the AM that my first mile was 8:45!
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| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 7.40 |
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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 | | 8.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.20 |
| Morning, but 8am rather than early. Knew that Daria was feeling pretty sick and planning on sleeping until 9-ish, so didn't need to get out the door early. 7:22 AP to get home within a minute of her waking up. Perfect.
I wish they'd finish up that 5th South Bountiful construction, as it doesn't feel very safe to cross under the highway around there.
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| RETIRED Skechers GoMeb Speed 2 - Chevron Houston Marathon Edition Miles: 8.20 |
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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 | | 8.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.20 |
| From campus after lunch. Calf cramped at 4 miles and felt bad rest of the run. Annoying. Would've done more otherwise. 7:16 AP with moderate hills. |
| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 8.20 |
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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 | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| My leg has been sucky for a few weeks and hurt a lot for a couple weeks after that last run. Frustrating, but I'm so busy with trying to wrap up the biggest project of my PhD that I haven't noticed that much that I haven't been running. I ran 4 laps + a slight bit more at Liberty with a crew this morning. Average pace of 7:0x, starting at 8:00 and getting into the 6:40s. Felt good to run again.
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| RETIRED Skechers GoMeb Speed 2 - Chevron Houston Marathon Edition Miles: 6.00 |
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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 | | 3.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.20 |
| First run in 4 weeks. Running just hasn't been a priority lately. I'm getting married in 4 months and need to bust my butt in the lab to finish up my PhD in the mean time. I've been working very long hours, but it's paying off. I wish I had the time to train, but right now, I just don't. Fortunately, the hardest paper of my dissertation has been completed and submitted for publication as of this week, so I'd like to think that things will be a little easier at this point, but I kind of doubt that that's really true. Oh well. I have plenty of time in the future.
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| RETIRED Skechers GoMeb Speed 2 - Chevron Houston Marathon Edition Miles: 3.20 |
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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 | | 3.70 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.70 |
| Actually went running! 3.7 miles at 7:15 pace, which felt harder than it should've. I've accomplished a ton in lab lately, which is great.
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| RETIRED Skechers GoMeb Speed 2 - Chevron Houston Marathon Edition Miles: 3.70 |
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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 | | 4.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.20 |
| Back in MN. 7:04 AP. Half a mile on trails. Parents house to downtown Mahtomedi, up Warner, and through Katherine Abbott.
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| RETIRED Skechers GoMeb Speed 2 - Chevron Houston Marathon Edition Miles: 4.20 |
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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 | | 4.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.60 |
| I don't want to get injured yet again, so I'm keeping runs short. I also went really easy tonight at 7:49 AP. Down to the end of Lincolntown, back, and up to 120, and back. Didn't have a lot of options since I ran in the dark back in MN, so I just stayed on the paved trail in both directions.
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| RETIRED Skechers GoMeb Speed 2 - Chevron Houston Marathon Edition Miles: 4.60 |
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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 | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| I've done some very minimal running, but haven't thought to post it. In any case, I just picked up 2 new pairs of shoes, so I figured I'd start keeping track. I won't have time to do any serious training until Fall, but it's all right. First 3 at 7:xx pace, last at 5:55 pace.
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| RETIRED Adidas Adizero Boost Miles: 4.00 |
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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 | | 15.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| Was going to do just a few miles, but kept deciding to do a little more and ended up doing 15 at 7:12 pace (treadmill), which is my longest run in the better part of a year. My aerobic and energy systems felt fine and I never felt like I was working hard, but my legs felt prety hammered at the end. Ahh, lack of fitness...
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| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 3 Black Miles: 15.00 |
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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 | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Finally logging mileage again.
Ran up the trail immediately north of Holbrook Canyon in Bountiful. I still have no idea what this is called. I used to think it was the Sessions Mountains ridge, but apparently that's the ridge immediately south of Holbrook Canyon. Probably more like 8.5, but got a little lost and did some extra off-trail mileage. The top of this trail is suuuuuuper rugged (hadn't been up this in a few years and forgot how bad the terrain was) and the Skechers were a bad choice.
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| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 3 Black Miles: 9.00 |
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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 | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Run from my building to and on BOSHO.
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| RETIRED Adidas Adizero Boost Miles: 5.00 |
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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 | | 6.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.30 |
| Ran with Josh E, who did a little more than me. Good to get back out with someone else, and especially nice that both of us are super out of shape and not interested in pushing the pace.
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| RETIRED Adidas Adizero Boost Miles: 6.30 |
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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 | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Brighton to Ant Knolls to volunteer at Aid Station. Saw James clissold looking fresher than anyone else, except maybe the winner, come through, which was awesome. Back to Brighton around 1 am. |
| RETIRED Skechers Go Run 2 Orange Miles: 9.00 |
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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 | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Ran with Fritz and Josh. 7:2xs are fast for fatties. Haha.
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| RETIRED Skechers Go Run 2 Orange Miles: 9.00 |
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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 | | 7.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.10 |
| Was supposed to run with Josh, but screwed up. Was TAing a lab in MEB and just enough time to get to SMBB, grab my running clothes, change, and meet him by the trax. I forgot that my shoes were in my car and didn't realize until I was grabbing my running clothes and about to change. Of course, my car keys were still in MEB, so I had to sprint back to lab, grab them, sprint to my car (in the wrong direction), and sprint back past SMBB and up to trax. By the time I got there, I was 10-15 minutes late and he was already gone. Sorry Josh. Anyway, I did a kind of weird route that I've managed to remember every twist and turn of, and have mapped out. SMBB to MEB to car to trax to JCC, up 3 different trails to BOSHO (screwed this up), to Red Butte, up Mt Van Cott, along a few paths on the ridge looking for the best possible view (i haven't been up this peak in ages), back down the front, back through JCC, and back. 7.1 miles with 1700' gain, most of it coming in the very steep climb up the peak.
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| RETIRED Adidas Adizero Boost Miles: 7.10 |
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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 | | 3.70 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.70 |
| Well, this has been a bad year for my fitness, but I've been focused on other stuff, so that's OK. I'm defending my PhD in a couple weeks, so that's exciting. I'm going to have a little down time after I finish, so it'll be nice to have some time to focus on getting back into shape, etc.
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| RETIRED Skechers Go Run 2 Orange Miles: 3.70 |
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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 | | 4.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.20 |
| Back in MN. Ran really late (11:30 PM) after finalizing my doctoral dissertation. Everything was covered in a crunchy layer of ice/snow. Wasn't that cold (27 degrees F), but with 16 mph winds, windchill was 15 degrees F. My legs were kind of cold in shorts, but it was still fun.
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| RETIRED Skechers Go Run 2 Orange Miles: 4.20 |
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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 | | 8.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.80 |
| Main route from home out to the Gateway Trail connection on Stillwater Road and back, 6.8 miles. I love, love, love the feel of the Adidas on the bottom of my feet (larger heel-toe drop seems nice when I'm fat and slow), but the mesh on the top is annoying and gave me a small blister on top of my right middle toe, which I remember happening when they were brand new. Once again, I didn't wear a watch, mostly just to encourage a slow, leisurely pace. I have no business running fast anytime soon.
Also, did a running speedplay of the Lakewood Hills disc golf course. 18 holes, 6280 of actual course distance, and quite a bit of connecting distance with hills, extra distance for bad shots etc, so 2 full miles of running. Finished the round in sub-40 minutes at 2 over par, which is good for me on this course in crazy iced over conditions, which cut the footwork out of most of my drives and dropped my distance ability by a solid 100 feet.
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| RETIRED Adidas Adizero Boost Miles: 8.80 |
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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 | | 185.80 | 3.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 189.80 |
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| RETIRED Skechers GoRun 2 Yellow Miles: 71.80 | RETIRED Saucony Shay XC3 Red Miles: 4.00 | RETIRED Skechers GoMeb Speed 2 - Chevron Houston Marathon Edition Miles: 29.90 | RETIRED Adidas Adizero Boost Miles: 31.20 | RETIRED Skechers GoRun 3 Black Miles: 24.00 | RETIRED Skechers Go Run 2 Orange Miles: 25.90 |
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