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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
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first run in a few days.  I don't know what was going on but I have been feeling really crappy for a long time.  I think I was still fighting that sickness.  I felt really good today though.  It was a nice day.  I ran in the afternoon when I was a little more awake.  Did a 2x200 m sprints up hills as part of my run.  

Guide Orange:  81.5

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6.501.007.50

I didn't have much time today so I had to cut it short.  I ran 6.5 pretty easy and went and found the track here and did 2x800 repeats without my watch.  Just worked on my stride and form.  Trying to work some more speediness into my running because I feel SOOO slow right now.  More mileage on Friday hopefully.  Felt good today though.  second good day in a row.  Maybe I've finally kicked whatever it was that had me down.  yaya!

Guide Orange: 89.0

 

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9.5 pretty easy today.  Legs were a little sore from the 800's yesterday but just relaxed and felt pretty good.  Worked more on my form and posture and stride and got a pretty solid pace going thru the middle half of the run.  A few big hills.  Nice run today.

Guide Orange: 98.5

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11.000.0011.00

pretty easy day today.  still a little sore from the 800s but feelin good.  Weather and everything is perfect for running.

Guide Orange: 109.5

Night Sleep Time: 9.00Nap Time: 2.00Total Sleep Time: 11.00Calories: 0.00
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6.505.5012.00

went on an easy/hard interval run today about 7.5 miles.  about 4 miles of that was 6 min pace or better.  the rest was easy.  then played some intense ultimate frisbee and we were good so we did a lot of running down the field for another 1.5 fast miles in short sprints.  Then went on a slow jog for 3 miles with my roomate and another friend.  So all in all today was a great day for running although I will probably be fairly sore tomorrow.  But I'm feeling more in shape and faster so I think I am improving and hopefully will  be in great shape for my first marathon in less than a month.

Guide Orange: 118.5

Guide Gold:  500.5

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7.5 easy today.  legs were quite sore from yesterdays intensity but it felt really good.  I am finally feeling fast again and the altitude has stopped bugging me.  Ahhh...I hope this lasts.  I am feeling some freakishly fast 5ks and 10ks after the marathon.  but I'm excited for the marathon too...since that seems to be the coming of age for runners.  BRING IT ON!  haha.

Guide Gold:  126

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7 easy today again.  legs still a little sore so I took today kind of as a rest day.  Felt good though.  Went and found this canyon to run up.  Didn't go too far up it because of time constraints but it looks promising.  Anyway, good day today.

Guide Orange:  133.0

 

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0.006.106.10

wasn't going to push too hard today but I was feeling really good so I did a loop around First Dam and the Temple as fast as I could possibly do it.  almost 10k in 37 min (6:04/mi)...which is pretty darn good considering there are some huge hills and I wasn't in a race.  I was thinking it would make a pretty cool 10k course if you added another .1 on somewhere.  Anyway, felt really good and strong.  Really feeling a lot faster and hopefully I'll be able to put that into a good pace on the marathon and my endurance training will allow me to maintain it.  That's the plan.

Guide Orange:  139.1

 

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nice slow run just around logan today.  Felt pretty good, just a moderate pace with lots of hills in the run.  That's one love/hate I have about Logan, or at least living on campus.  I ALWAYS have hills in my run since I live on top of one.  Anyway, good run today.

Guide Orange: 143.1

 

 

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no time today.  I am up to my eyeballs in homework.  aaarrgghh!  but I got a couple in anyway.  just easy.  

Guide Orange: 145.1

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6 miles hard today.  Feeling faster and faster.  Hopefully I can get some more mileage in this weekendish.  Prepping for exams is a beast though.  Especially when you are taking trigonometry, college algebra and chemistry.  Felt good today though.

Guide Orange: 151.1

Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Calories: 0.00
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5 miles of hills and conditioning type run today.  Found all the toughest hills I could find within a short distance and ran them as hard as I could without stopping and trying not to slow down more than gravity forced me to.  Definitely got some vo2 max time in.  Also did 2x200's on the track at 29 seconds apiece.    Good run today.  will take it a little easier tomorrow because I am gonna run the TOU 5K on Saturday...that is if they will still let me register tomorrow.  

Guide Orange: 156.1

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4.000.004.00

easy run to relax for tomorrow's race.

Guide Orange: 160.1

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Race: Top of Utah 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:17:32, Place overall: 3
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Hmmm... well, not gonna lie this race sucked really bad.  started out too fast first of all trying to hang onto Paul and Cody at least for a little while and ended up running the first mile way too hard (even though by time it shouldn't have been that bad) resulting in the last half of the race being absolutely terrible.  I need to quit getting so excited and thinking I am back in high school and starting out like I'm gonna run a 15:45.  Plus for some reason my mental toughness is down the toilet right now and I have a hard time forcing myself to go hard at it when I'm feeling like crap.  So I just need to work on that...a lot.  

 On the bright side I met Paul, Cody and Jon today and am going to start training with them as much as I can.  It will be good to have other people to run with and motivate me and all that good stuff.  Plus they are all marathon gurus and full of sage advice on how to run St. George which is great considering I don't really know what to expect from the marathon.  Anyway, I'm looking forward to some good times with them. Oh, and my Aggies absolutely DESTROYED Idaho today so that was a plus to the day too.  :)  now if they can just win another one somewhere...

Type A2 Racers:  15.5

Guide Orange:  169.1

 

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ran with Paul, Cody, and Jon on what is apparently called the landfill loop for an easy 5.5 miles then Paul and Cody took off and Jon introduced me to the Planet walk trail which is a very nice little trail.  Too bad it's short.  But it was good to run with them again and find new places to run.  

Guide Orange:  176.6

Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00Calories: 0.00
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did fartleks today.  warmed up for awhile and then did 5x4:00 at about 5:30 pace with 2:00 rest pace in between.  felt really good.  got some good hills in along the way too.  Couldn't run with the guys today because I had to go early and only had a limited amount of time due to the fact that I had to go watch a 3 hour depressing movie about Mozart.  It was kind of a drag.  But it was a good run today.

Guide Orange: 182.6

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 2.00Total Sleep Time: 2.00Calories: 0.00
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12 easy today on the Logan River Trail which Jon told me about.  It's a really sweet trail.  very shady and is a lot more interesting than the road.  The only problem was I kept running into packs of tourists that couldn't spreken ze inglis and had to keep stopping and try to get past or through them.  but it was a cool run.  Just took it easy and kind of coasted how I felt.  Got some good paces going on some parts but didn't ever really breathe hard.  Nice run today.  Well, I gotta go to trigonometry class and then study chemistry so I'm out.

Guide Orange: 194.6

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8 miles just easy

Guide Orange:  202.6

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didn't have a ton of time today so I did 6 at moderate pace just around town.

Guide Orange: 208.6

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10 easy today just got out and had fun with it nothing too hard.

Guide Orange: 218.6

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9 miles easy.  Felt kinda crappy today but don't know why.  maybe it was the fun size snickers I ate earlier.  Tomorrow should be better.  Today just went around town again.  It was really warm too...I must really be getting acclimatized to Logan if I think this is warm. lol.

Guide Orange: 227.6

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 0.00
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7 miles today with Cody and Jon.  7:45 pace or thereabouts.  just easy.  Went up through Providence and then past Jon's house and back to the fairgrounds.  Nice run today.  Felt very relaxed and ready for SGM.  I am so excited...3 more days!

3.5 more with some friends at night.  Really slow just to relax and get the kinks out.

Guide Orange: 238.1

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Calories: 0.00
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Night Sleep Time: 101.50Nap Time: 6.00Total Sleep Time: 107.50Calories: 0.00
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