| 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 | | 12.55 | 4.15 | 6.60 | 0.00 | 23.30 |
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| RETIRED Saucony Shay XC3 Red Miles: 14.90 | RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #2 Miles: 8.40 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.15 | 4.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.30 |
| Up and down Bowman Fork to Baker Pass. 57 up at what felt somewhere in the ballpark of marathon effort, 33 down, easy. This used to seem like a serious climb, but it's pretty routine now. Min elevation 6275', max elevation 9369', total climb of 3300'. |
| RETIRED Saucony Shay XC3 Red Miles: 8.30 |
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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 |
| In Dallas for the Neural Interfaces Conference and forgot my shorts. I have shoes, Garmin, running socks, ipod, but forgot shorts. Seriously?
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.40 |
| Still in Dallas for the Neural Interfaces Conference with no running shorts. Didn't want to miss another day, so I asked around and borrowed a pair of basketball shorts. Ran 8.4 miles easy (my hotel to downtown, halfway on a rather muddy bike trail under a ridiculous amount of construction, and then randomly around a surprisingly crummy downtown) at 6:31 AP at 11 PM in disgustingly humid conditions (98% relative humidity). Garmin had 8.21, but I lost connection for over a minute going under a bridge (it dropped satellite and didn't add the lost distance when it recalculated, so a mile previously at 6:20 pace prior to dropped satellite ended at 7:40, so I just applied the average pace for that mile over that gap in time). Once again, despite disgustingly humid conditions, running in basketball shorts and a t-shirt that got obscenely drenched (needed one since I was staying in a hotel and had to walk out through the lobby), and having had a massive dinner and 2 beers shortly before my run, the pace for an easy (ie, very aerobic) run at nearly sea level (400') was SO MUCH FASTER than in Salt Lake. This effort would not have been within 20 seconds per mile even under ideal flat conditions in Utah. Altitude makes all the difference in the world. That said, despite the fast sea level pace and the ability to run on very flat terrain if so desired (I literally had zero feet of elevation change registered on my Garmin in the first 2.12 miles, which was mostly on a toe-path, and the high point and the low point of my run were only 28 feet apart), that humidity was so disgusting that I have very little interest in ever running here again. Excited to get back to Utah tomorrow.
Other notes:
1. Boy is it humid here. This is 5 minutes after finishing my run:
I'm pretty sure I'm actually in a swamp.
2. Do Texans not care at all about the Mavericks? I thought they were popular, but their stadium, at least from the outside, appeared really tiny.
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| RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #2 Miles: 8.40 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.60 | 0.00 | 6.60 |
| Tempo run on trails at 6000' with almost exactly (just over) 1000' of elevation gain (pipeline plus some connectors). I hadn't really attempted to run Pipeline fast previously, but looking at the GPS data, I feel relieved. Average pace was in the 6:20s and felt pretty hard, like actually half marathon pace, but it's a lot more undulating than I realized. Correlating to flat and sea level (assuming actual half marathon effort) would give 5:55 pace, which sounds very slow for a half marathon, but considering that it was quite rocky and full of turns, that's actually not bad.
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| RETIRED Saucony Shay XC3 Red Miles: 6.60 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.55 | 4.15 | 6.60 | 0.00 | 23.30 |
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| RETIRED Saucony Shay XC3 Red Miles: 14.90 | RETIRED Saucony A6 Orange #2 Miles: 8.40 |
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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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