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February 2012

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Location:

Logan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Apr 27, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Region 9 Cross Country Champion 2004 (5K: 15:42)

400m: 00:54 (running start)

800m: 2:03 (7th place State Meet 2005)

1500m: 4:30 (2nd place Utah Summer Games 2004)

1600m: 4:31 (4th place State Meet 2005)

3000m: 9:55 (1st place Utah Summer Games 2004)

3200m: 9:52 (4th place State Meet 2005)

5K: 15:39 (2nd place Enterprise, UT Pioneer Days 2004

 

 

10K (very aided): 33:33.3 (8th place USG 2008)

15K:  53:04 (6th place Blacksmith Fork Freedom Run)

Half Marathon (very aided):  1:10:38 (5th place, Provo Halloween Half)

Marathon:  2:38:15 Top of Utah Marathon 2010 (6th Place Overall, 1st Local and 1st 19-24)

Won the 1st Annual Sand Hollow Marathon in 2:41:22

Ultramarathon:  Logan Peak Trail Race 2010:  28 miles, 7261 vert. 4:23:48 (2nd Place), El Vaquero Loco 50k 2011: 6:02 (2nd Place)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Go where the trail takes me.

 

Personal:

My hometown is Hurricane, UT but I currently live in Logan, UT where I attend Utah State University.  I am working on a PhD in Education, with an emphasis in Technology and Engineering Education.

You can also check out my blogspot running blog where I post race reports.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Type A2 Racers Lifetime Miles: 219.40
Brooks Cascadia 6 (Green) Lifetime Miles: 527.90
Brooks Launch (Orange/Yellow) Lifetime Miles: 250.40
Altra Lone Peak (Yellow/Gray) Lifetime Miles: 94.60
New Balance MT110 (Black) Lifetime Miles: 75.00
Altra Superior (Green) Lifetime Miles: 103.30
Brooks Cascadia 8 (Blue) Lifetime Miles: 185.10
Trail 2013 Lifetime Miles: 140.15
Road 2013 Lifetime Miles: 121.35
Altra Lone Peak B (Yellow/Gray) Lifetime Miles: 65.70
PI M2T (Orange/Blue/Grey) Lifetime Miles: 27.50
Trail Miles 2015 (Start May) Lifetime Miles: 64.00
Road Miles 2015 (Start May) Lifetime Miles: 31.50
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
159.8512.50172.35
Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 134.75Road 2012 Miles: 134.75Brooks Cascadia 6 (Green) Miles: 27.60Trail 2012 Miles: 37.60
Night Sleep Time: 149.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 149.50Calories: 18009.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.650.005.65

First test run back from being sick.  I hate being sick.  Felt good today.  Only a minimal bout of coughing after the run.  Progress!

41:29 (7:20/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 5.65Road 2012 Miles: 5.65
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 603.00
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6.500.006.50

Epic trail run/hike with Cody.  Started at First Dam, then ran BST to the foot of the mountain east of town with the TV reflectors.  Then "ran" (read hiked) up it.  It's a very steep, technical trail in the best of conditions, but this morning we had a howling wind and up to knee deep snow.  We're officially hardcore.  Look at Cody's blog for pictures.  At the top, we both were starting to get hypothermia, so we glissaded down as fast as we could, which was tons of fun. 

2:03 (19:00/mi.) 3000' vert.

Brooks Cascadia 6 (Green) Miles: 6.50Trail 2012 Miles: 6.50
Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50Calories: 0.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.700.006.70

Moderate paced run today.  It was a little chilly as I only wore a shirt and shorts, but I felt really good on the run.  Every day seems to feel better.  Still have a lingering sore throat that shows up mostly at night.  Other than that I feel great.

48:32 (7:16/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 6.70Road 2012 Miles: 6.70
Night Sleep Time: 9.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00Calories: 710.00
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8.500.008.50

Solid run this evening.  Got hungry about halfway through, but I stuck it out despite the cold wind.  Very enjoyable.

1:02:47 (7:21/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 8.50Road 2012 Miles: 8.50
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 913.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.200.006.20

Easy effort in a little snowstorm.  Decent run.  Still feeling rusty, but I'm getting there.  If I can just get a few weeks of consistency without getting sick or hurt...

45:55 (7:26/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 6.20Road 2012 Miles: 6.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Calories: 664.00
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8.200.008.20

Longer run today.  Finally did one of my old loops that I haven't been able to do since I was injured.  River Heights-Providence-Main.  Felt really pretty good.  No niggles or anything to speak of.

1:01:42 (7:31/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 8.20Road 2012 Miles: 8.20
Night Sleep Time: 8.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.50Calories: 887.00
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6.100.006.10

Easy run with one of the Padawans.  Enjoyable run, and very relaxing.

53:07 (8:46/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 6.10Road 2012 Miles: 6.10
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 652.00
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10.000.0010.00

Snowshoed the Wellsvilles with Cody.  See his blog for cool pictures and stuff.  It was quite the adventure, and a hard workout at the same time.  It was only something like 6 miles, but I'm counting it for 10 because it felt like 20.  Really cool to be up there with all the snow though.  Snowshoeing was fun, especially the long glissade down.  Great morning workout.

Trail 2012 Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00Calories: 1100.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.200.007.20

Easy run around town after work.  Pretty routine.

53:35 (7:26/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 7.20Road 2012 Miles: 7.20
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 775.00
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3.506.5010.00

 

Small Workout #1

Didn't push it too hard, as this is my first hard workout in some time, but it felt great to push the pace today.  Ran up to the Fieldhouse and after warming up I started with 4x800m at 5:30 pace.

Splits:

2:43

2:48

2:45

2:42

Not too fast, but it has been a long time so I was definitely working.  Followed that with 4.5 miles at Tinman or a little faster, and a couple of miles of cooldown.  10 miles total for the day.  Good workout

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 10.00Road 2012 Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 1100.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

Easy run in the cold after work.  It was a really beautiful night, though.

48:38 (8:06/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 6.00Road 2012 Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 651.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.100.0010.10

LRT.  Felt pretty decent.  Still a little sore and tired from Tuesday, but not bad.

1:19:29 (7:51/mi.)

Brooks Cascadia 6 (Green) Miles: 10.10Trail 2012 Miles: 10.10
Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50Calories: 1094.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

Relaxed 5 miler today.  

38:57 (7:47/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 5.00Road 2012 Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 537.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
12.000.0012.00

"Long" run today.  Well, the longest I've done in a long time.  It felt really really good!  It was even warm enough to take my shirt off for the last third of the run.  50 miles for the week, and who knows how long it's been since that happened.  Very positive day and week.  Now if Cody can just get healthy...

1:26:56 (7:14/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 12.00Road 2012 Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Calories: 1300.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.200.008.20

Moderate effort today to start off the week.  Felt sluggish at first, but as I warmed into the run I felt better.  No aches or pains, so that is good.

59:21 (7:13/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 8.20Road 2012 Miles: 8.20
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 881.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.006.0010.00

Small Workout #2

Same basic workout as last week, but I pushed it a lot harder and felt better doing it this week.  4x800m followed by a tempo run

2:28

2:31

2:34

2:37

Tempo run was also much faster than last week, hitting a couple of miles near MP.


Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 10.00Road 2012 Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 1200.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

Easy recovery run late at night.  It was way after hours, but the weather was actually perfect.  It was about 50 degrees with a little breeze.  Felt very relaxed and smooth after feeling sore much of the day.  Recovery time is coming down, so that is really good.

47:27 (7:53/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 6.00Road 2012 Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 650.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
11.000.0011.00

Easy run.  Was going to hit the LRT again, but it was a skating rink so I went back and did BST, which was a mud bog.  Pick your poison I guess.  But hey, at least the snow is melting.

1:27:40 (8:02/mi.)

Brooks Cascadia 6 (Green) Miles: 11.00Trail 2012 Miles: 11.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 1162.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.200.005.20

Easy recovery run after work.

41:28 (8:02/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 5.20Road 2012 Miles: 5.20
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 556.00
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15.000.0015.00

Nice late night 15 miler.  I was going to go with Cody this morning for part of my run (btw, it's super easy to plan runs when you work with your running partner), but I was reminded that I had to help with a high school VEX Robotics tournament that my college VEX team was sponsoring, so I had to bag the run/hike with Cody.  As soon as I got home from that I had to go to work until 9:30 and didn't get out on the run until almost 10.  I didn't feel too spry for the first 7 miles or so, but then things started clicking more and by mile 10 I was feeling really good.  Finished the last mile slow to cool down and made it home before midnight.

1:52:25 (7:29/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 15.00Road 2012 Miles: 15.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Calories: 1624.00
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8.800.008.80

Easy run around town.  No watch.  Felt very good.  Nice night for a run too.

Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 8.80Road 2012 Miles: 8.80
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 950.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
159.8512.50172.35
Brooks Adrenaline 11 (Red) Miles: 134.75Road 2012 Miles: 134.75Brooks Cascadia 6 (Green) Miles: 27.60Trail 2012 Miles: 37.60
Night Sleep Time: 149.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 149.50Calories: 18009.00
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