| 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 | | 68.00 | 11.75 | 3.00 | 0.25 | 83.00 |
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 Miles: 57.50 | RETIRED Nike Zoom Streak LT2 Miles: 9.50 | RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 16.00 |
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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 | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| 12.5 with the group (slightly less, did an extra minute-ish at the end to get the mileage far enough past 12.4 to round up... haha...) at 7:17 pace. Moderately hilly route from Highland, overall nice day out there...
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 Miles: 12.50 |
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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 | | 10.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| Worked typical hours, but still had more work to do, so I went home, ate, played with Holly, and then ran back to work, slightly longer than the typical 2.5 mile method. Ran a little over 8.5 miles on a longer route back home down through Sugarhouse, with one mile at 6:15. Had to carry my wallet, phone, and keys in a camelbak (I remove the bladder and use it as a backpack), which really wasn't so bad. Average pace for the 11 was about 7:10.
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 Miles: 11.00 |
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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 | 10.75 | 3.00 | 0.25 | 19.00 |
| Pretty big workout today, and felt absolutely great, despite this workout putting me at 60 miles over Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues. 2.5 mile warmup up to the gym at about 7:30 pace (uphill), then hopped on a treadmill for 14 miles (marathon effort between treadmill at altitude here and flat at sea level is pretty similar). Miles 1-5: 6:00 pace, mile 6: 5:52 pace, mile 7-8: 6:00 pace, mile 9: 5:56 pace, miles 10-12: 6:00 pace, mile 13: 5:52 pace, first .75 of mile 14: 6:00 pace, last .25 of mile 14: 4:55-ish pace (5:00 for most, kicked it down to 4:30 over the last .05). 2.5 mile cool down, SO SLOW. 9:15 pace downhill. Workout was comfortably hard, but I've done quite a bit harder. To put this on par with my hardest workouts last year, effort wise, I'd have had to tack on another 4 miles. I felt like i could've gone ~20 if racing all out. I love the mentality of doing hard workouts on a treadmill: either run the pace or fly off the belt. There's no question of whether or not I'll keep up the pace. I simply have to. Based on how I felt today, I couldn't currently hold 6:00 pace for a full marathon, but I bet I could hold 6:07s and hit a 2:40. Once I drop all the way to race weight, I might just have to take Phoenix out at 6:00 flat pace.
One other note to self for future reference: pace felt kind of "fast" already by mile 3, but didn't really feel any harder even by the end, so that's something to keep in mind when a race pace feels "fast" too early. If I'm strong enough, it's not a big deal.
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 Miles: 19.00 |
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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 | | 9.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| Easy snowy/slushy/icy 9.5 at 7:55 pace. Down to Fairmont Park, then slight Sugarhouse Loop. Pretty boring and uninspired tonight. Didn't get out until 11:40 PM and was quite tired.
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| RETIRED Nike Zoom Streak LT2 Miles: 9.50 |
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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 | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 10 miles on a treadmill at the gym, 6:35 pace, which felt pretty darn easy.
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 Miles: 10.00 |
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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 |
| A little over 5 at like 7:48 pace, felt really tired, so didn't do much. Lungs felt horrrrrrrible afterwards.
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 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 | | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
| 16 with a pretty decent sized group. Lungs weren't so good (not much coughing while running, but hard to breath during any significant exertion on a hill, and really bad whenever briefly stopping). When I stopped at the portal potty at mile 10 or 11 and then again after the run, my chest was very painful. Average pace was 6:55, a bit faster at the end, and when the group decided to start injecting pace at mile 15, I intentionally went on another street to avoid even trying to go with it. Anything under 6:45 was kind of unpleasant for me today and I was feeling pretty awful most of the run, but it's good for me, mentally, to feel awful starting from mile 3, and still finish the run without slowing down.
Tried to go to the student health center afterwards, but they're "only seeing international students on weekends" for the first couple weeks of the semester. They referred me to a local after hours clinic, where I'd have to spend the first thousand out of pocket and then 20% after that. Some great insurance they give to students here! I think I'll wait until Monday and hope that I don't lose an hour+ of sleep tonight being awake and coughing like I have the last couple nights. :(
In any case, I have new skis, so I'm still about to go skiing. Hope my body can deal. :)
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| RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 16.00 |
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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 | | 68.00 | 11.75 | 3.00 | 0.25 | 83.00 |
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #1 Miles: 57.50 | RETIRED Nike Zoom Streak LT2 Miles: 9.50 | RETIRED Saucony Orange Kinvara 4 Miles: 16.00 |
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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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