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March 19, 2024

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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: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
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: 20.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.003.1115.11

AM - First track workout in a good long while. I was excited to take advantage of the heavy rains that have cooled things off. I had 78 F w/ 71 dew point with a light rain, which would have sounded awful in a previous life but felt delightful this morning. I still sweat like a pig, I just didn't feel overheated.

5x1k. Wasn't sure what to expect since my tempos have been inconsistent. 3:16, 3:22, 3:22, 3:25, 3:29 -- it was much worse than even my lowest expectations. I was sharing the track with a very amateur HS club and was pushed to lane 3 on almost every turn, but these times were still very hard to accept.

If there's anything I've learned over the years, it's to not force my training. I really expected to be further along at this point, but I guess I just have to accept where I'm at and keep working. I'm still a little overweight (152 this morning), so I'll probably have to look at my diet (gasp) which is a first. Maybe all that fried chicken and Mt Dew is starting to work against me. My dad warned me his metabolism changed at 30, so perhaps my days of eating whatever I want are over.

PM - 4 easy.

NB 1400 Miles: 4.80Launch 2 Miles: 4.00Ride 7 Blue Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From Little Bad Legs on Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 08:47:04 from 76.27.255.99

I could eat anything until 33 or so. The last couple years have changed dramatically and now I pay for the bad food choices. Getting old is lame.

From Tyler on Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 07:30:59 from 144.46.104.12

Totally lame! Who has time to worry about diet anyway?

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