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May 2015

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Location:

North Salt Lake,UT,

Member Since:

Dec 12, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

1500m - 3:59.9h (2014)

5000m - 14:53.45 (Portland Track Festival 2014)

8k XC - 25:09 (Sundodger 2011)

10k XC - 31:31 (WWU Invite 2011)

HM - 1:10:19 (Houston 2018)

Marathon - 2:28:39 (Houston 2019)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Personal:

Married, working, training. While my wife has nixed all future attempts to grow glorious mustaches, she has been supportive of my crazy running dreams. Life is good.

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Miles:This week: 1.00 Month: 1.00 Year: 1.00
Mizuno Ekiden Lifetime Miles: 274.65
Flyknit Streaks Lifetime Miles: 419.25
Flyknit VFs Lifetime Miles: 80.50
Ride 14 Lifetime Miles: 652.85
Ride 15 Lifetime Miles: 275.80
Ride 15 X2 Lifetime Miles: 21.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
238.750.000.000.00238.75
Saucony Ride Miles: 103.75Asics Electro 33 Miles: 19.00Brooks Ghost 6 (B) Miles: 54.00Hoka Stinson Miles: 10.00Ravenna 5 (grey) Miles: 52.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.000.000.000.0011.00

11 easy around Richland.

Saucony Ride Miles: 11.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

5 easy. I got food poisoning Monday morning and it's laid me pretty low. This was a slow and shaky 5 miles.

Saucony Ride Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

5 easy. Feeling quite a bit better, but I feel like this being the 2nd setback of the season, it may be best to wrap it up and move onto marathon training. I could call this my down week and start ramping up the miles now.

Asics Electro 33 Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.500.000.000.007.50

Easy loop around Padden.

Brooks Ghost 6 (B) Miles: 7.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

Cali run. Today officially begins a new chapter: Marathon training.

Saucony Ride Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.500.000.000.0013.50

AM - 10 easy, Padden horse trail loop.

PM - Bonus 3.5 at the work loop.

Hoka Stinson Miles: 3.50Ravenna 5 (grey) Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

Easy 7 on the Urb to Cali. Out and back. My legs are pretty sore now that I'm getting back into the swing of it. Just general muscle soreness. Last week's illness seems to have done more harm than I thought.

Asics Electro 33 Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 easy with Nanner on the Urb. Out & back.

Saucony Ride Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.000.000.000.0014.00

14 miles on a dirt road outside of Columbus, Montana. I have an interview in Billings on Friday and drove 13 hours today to camp in Columbus. Beautiful run, I camped in a free city campground along the Yellowstone and headed across the river along a dirt road that swept along a bluff overlooking the river valley. The long run, plus still getting adjusted to running again, made this run a little challenging in the last few miles. My quads complained quite a bit, but it felt great to get in a nice long run. 7:19 average.

Brooks Ghost 6 (B) Miles: 14.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 miles on the Rimrock in Billings. Had my interview today and it went well. The run was pretty, the path dropped me into a neighborhood behind the Rims that looked like a nice place to live.

Saucony Ride Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 miles on the horsetrails at Padden.

Ravenna 5 (grey) Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 miles with Tim out on Galbraith. Beautiful morning.

Saucony Ride Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

12 with Tanner on the Huckleberry/Salal loop. The weather's been so great I'm starting to think it doesn't rain in the Northwest anymore. I'm getting spoiled.

Ravenna 5 (grey) Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.500.000.000.0013.50

Long run with Tanner. We headed out to the Whatcom loop from my place, which I haven't done in forever. My watch had 1:37:30 total time and 12.75 miles, which I know is wrong. Typical under-the-trees measurement. I think we were closer to 14, but I'm calling it 13.5 to be conservative. We were moving pretty good.

Saucony Ride Miles: 13.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 miles with Tanner, headed up to Padden for the horse trail loop. No watch.

Brooks Ghost 6 (B) Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

12 easy on the Urb. Nice and flat, which I felt was needed. No watch. My upper hamstring on the right side has been giving me some trouble. I think it's a nerve issue, but it's starting to worry me some. Right under the glute I've been getting sharp stabs of pain from time to time, and no amount of rolling or stretching seems to affect it. In fact, I don't feel anything out of the ordinary when I stretch it, which is why I think it's nerve related - if it were a muscle tear or tendonitis I should feel that with a stretch. My right hip area is also having problems; hip flexor, lower abdomen all seem to fatigue and ache by the end of my runs. I've been uncertain how to attack those, but it's getting obnoxious.

But on a positive note, this is the best week of training I've had in awhile. I'm working my way slowly up to 90s per week, and I can't help daydreaming about the marathon on my runs. I'm pretty excited to take a shot at it. Finally.

Saucony Ride Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.250.000.000.0013.25

AM - Work loop (3.25)

PM - 10 miles with Erica. She rode with me down the Urb, went along Boulevard as the sun was setting. Nice evening. 1:09:50 total time.

Brooks Ghost 6 (B) Miles: 10.00Hoka Stinson Miles: 3.25
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 miles, Lake Padden horse trail loop. 1:12:15.

Ravenna 5 (grey) Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.250.000.000.0013.25

AM - 10 miles easy on the Urb. Feeling tired. I weighed myself yesterday and I haven't put back on the weight I lost from my bout of food poisoning. Hopefully I'm just tired from increasing miles and not lasting effects from that. None of my runs have felt particularly easy.

PM - 3.25 work loop. I heard from the Scotiabank Half up in Vancouver, they're going to give me a comp entry to come run. I had hoped to be in much better shape for this, but I suppose if I get to do it for free I can't turn it down. My first half is on the schedule.

Hoka Stinson Miles: 3.25Saucony Ride Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.500.000.000.0012.50

Huckleberry/Salal loop. 12.5 miles, no watch.

Brooks Ghost 6 (B) Miles: 12.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.250.000.000.0015.25

Long run, did the Whatcom loop from my place with a 2nd loop around the pond. The watch had me at 14.95 miles and 1:52:20, but I'm calling it 15.25 since the watch usually measures short on the trails. Today and yesterday are the first runs I haven't felt wiped out early.

Saucony Ride Miles: 15.25
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 easy, 7 with Tanner and Quimby. Cali on the Urb.

Ravenna 5 (grey) Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

7 easy on the Urb. Cali out and back. No watch.

Asics Electro 33 Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
238.750.000.000.00238.75
Saucony Ride Miles: 103.75Asics Electro 33 Miles: 19.00Brooks Ghost 6 (B) Miles: 54.00Hoka Stinson Miles: 10.00Ravenna 5 (grey) Miles: 52.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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