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April 2011

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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
220.500.00220.50
Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 134.40Brooks Cascadia 5 (Black) Miles: 86.10
Night Sleep Time: 132.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 132.00Calories: 19228.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.500.004.50

Easy run in the sun.  Weather is fantastic!

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 4.50
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 0.00
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10.800.0010.80

Easy run on the BST and up Green with two more Padawans.  Green is not very runnable at the moment.  Warm weather has turned it into a nasty ice sheet, but hopefully that will be melted soon.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 10.80
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Calories: 0.00
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7.700.007.70

Didn't have a lot of time today...only an hour to change and run and get back so I could go to work.  So I had to go faster than normal.  Felt pretty good though, even going fast.

52:02 (6:47/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 7.70
Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50Calories: 822.00
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12.300.0012.30

Longer run on the LRT in the pouring rain.  A little chilly, but not too cold.  Muddy and fun.

1:32:19 (7:31/mi.)

Brooks Cascadia 5 (Black) Miles: 12.30
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Calories: 1327.00
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8.200.008.20

Slow relaxing run this evening.  It was a beautiful evening for a run.  Little breeze but not too much, cool but not cold, a little light left in the sky and a sliver moon.  Very peaceful.  

1:00:42 (7:25/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 8.20
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 882.00
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9.200.009.20

Worst run ever.  Not that I felt bad or anything, but it was snowing a slurpee all over me and trying to slop through that was just downright miserable.  I felt as if mother nature took a restroom break all over me.  Not fun.

1:11:50 (7:49/mi.)

Brooks Cascadia 5 (Black) Miles: 9.20
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 995.00
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6.700.006.70

Short easy run.  Didn't have much time today, so just a short loop on Canyon Road through the Island and back.  Can't wait until school gets out so I can spend all my time running.  :)

46:45 (6:59/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 6.70
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 715.00
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12.000.0012.00

Easy run down through First Dam, behind the WRL, Simpson Dr., Mountain Road, Gibson Park, down through River Heights and looping through the Island, back up through campus and home.  A few knee twinges.  One of which almost stopped me, but it subsided quickly.

1:28:36 (7:21/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 1298.00
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8.900.008.90

Nice relaxed run out and back on the BST.  Felt rested and no knee twinges.

1:04:22

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 8.90
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 946.00
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15.000.0015.00

15 miles, 8 of which were with Cody after what seems like FOREVER.  We were both pretty excited to get out on the trails again, even if it was just the LRT.  I ran from my house and met him at First Dam, then we ran up the LRT, took the right fork to Bridger Overlook and looped down the Spring Hollow Trail back to the LRT at 3rd Dam.  It was nice to have company.  After I dropped Cody off at his car I took off up the BST and ran along it until I cut off at Lundstrom Park and back home.  That last section I kinda ran out of energy.  I blame it on my diet of late.  Cody was telling me he's been trying to eat better, and I think I had better do the same.  It's just so easy since I work at nights often to just go grab something on my way home.  With finals looming it's increasingly difficult to have time to run as much as normal and to cook decent meals.  I just have to survive a couple of more weeks...

1:58:15 (7:52)

Brooks Cascadia 5 (Black) Miles: 15.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Calories: 1630.00
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9.000.009.00

Easy niner just making loops around campus on roads and trails I don't run on much.  Just kinda had fun with it.  Felt really really good.  Best I've felt since SHM.  I think that means I'm pretty well recovered.  Slight bit of knee twinges at work a couple of hours after I finished, but nothing serious.  I dunno what to make of the knee thing.  Hardly hurts when running except a tweak here and there.  Definitely hurts more walking around and stuff, but even then it's not all the time, or even most of the time.  Weird.  Rainy day today, but it was rather pleasant.  Not cold at all.

1:04:42 (7:11/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 960.00
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13.000.0013.00

Deer Fence.  Lots of dead deer still.  Pretty gross.  I did see what I presume were Cody tracks on the trail, assuming he was wearing Cascadias the last time he ran it.  I went all the way to Providence Canyon then came back.  Didn't bring a light again, thinking there would still be some light when I got back.  No such luck.  But it was ok.  I'm still alive and in one piece.  Pace was good.  Started slow and easy and didn't try to break any records on the trail (partly because I had no light coming back), but I got pretty quick towards the end.  The last mile (half downhill) was 4:50 which is cool I guess.  Felt really relaxed and good today.

1:40:20 (7:41/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 13.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50Calories: 1398.00
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8.000.008.00

8 easy miles out on the southwest side of town.  Enjoyed the nice weather.

55:39 (6:57/mi)

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50Calories: 855.00
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12.000.0012.00

Longer run.  Felt a little sluggish but it was a beautiful evening for a run.  A little hail and wind to start but then it cleared off a bit and the sun came through the clouds.  Enjoyable run.

1:24:24 (7:02/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 1289.00
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8.100.008.10

Easy run this afternoon.  It was a little chilly to start out, but it warmed up.  Stopped for about half an hour to chat with a bishopric member from my first student ward who was out working in his yard.  Just kinda took it easy today, as my legs are feeling a little tired.  Looking forward to an easy long trail run tomorrow.

59:00 (7:18/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 8.10
Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50Calories: 870.00
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16.100.0016.10

Green Canyon via the Canal and BST.  Trail is totally clear up to the second gate (at the end of the first section of single track), but it's like there's a line drawn there where the snow and ice starts.  It seems to be melting at a good rate, but it will be awhile before it's clear all the way up to the top. It was nice to get a decent trail run in though.  Sunny and fairly warm today.  I might have even got a little bit of a sunburn.  

2:05:35 (7:49/mi.)

Brooks Cascadia 5 (Black) Miles: 16.10
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 1730.00
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9.000.009.00

Another easy 9 mile Monday run.  Felt really fantastic the whole time.  Pace seemed totally effortless and it was very enjoyable, minus the 10 minute hail storm at 6 miles.  

1:01:59 (6:52/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 965.00
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15.500.0015.50

I only meant to go 14 miles today, but it was on trails...

Started from my apartment, ran to the mouth of Green, across the BST to First Dam, then up the River Trail taking the Bridger Lookout loop with a short out and back up Mill Hollow, and then back to my apartment via the River Trail and campus.

1:55:11 (7:26/mi.)

Brooks Cascadia 5 (Black) Miles: 15.50
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 1672.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.200.008.20

Easy run, but the legs were tired.  Not too bad though.  Nice weather at least!

57:39 (7:03/mi.)

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 8.20
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Calories: 874.00
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8.300.008.30

Most painful 8 miles I've had in awhile.  I should have rested more yesterday.  I was going to go 12 but I felt so crappy I decided 8 was going to be it about 5 miles in.  Not the smartest week I've ever had.  Oh well though.  I'll get through it.  Additionally, I forgot to start my Garmin so I have no time.  It was slow though...7:35 is a fast guess and that felt like my legs were going to fall off.  The silver lining is that it was no particular area...so I don't think I'm injured.  Just tired and needing to do better recovery.

 

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 8.30
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Calories: 0.00
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0.000.000.00

Took a full rest today.  Legs feel absolutely trashed.  Walking up the hill to campus hurts all over.  I have no idea what's going on.  Hopefully this does not continue.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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18.000.0018.00

I felt good today.  Hit the LRT for an easy 18.  I'm struggling with this whole starting/stopping of the watch the last couple of days, so no accurate time, but it was ok to just go at a pace I felt good.  Was tired by the end, but didn't feel abnormally tired or anything.  I don't know what was going on the last couple of days.  Hopefully we don't have any more of that anytime soon.

Brooks Cascadia 5 (Black) Miles: 18.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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220.500.00220.50
Brooks Adrenaline 10 (Green) Miles: 134.40Brooks Cascadia 5 (Black) Miles: 86.10
Night Sleep Time: 132.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 132.00Calories: 19228.00
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