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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
75.400.000.005.1080.50
Vapor (Red) Miles: 43.20Launch Miles: 24.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

80 minutes in the Chuckanuts on the rainiest morning I think I've experienced yet in Bellingham. The trail was slippery and muddy and I fell twice into large puddles. It was wonderful. Lots of hills and slowness around the trails, so I'm calling this 10 miles.

Vapor (Red) Miles: 10.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.200.000.000.0012.20

2 loops around Padden today. 1:27:00 total time.

Vapor (Red) Miles: 12.20
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10.000.000.003.1013.10

Fairly simple workout on the track, 5x1k w/ 2:00 rests. Start at 10k pace and work down to 5k. 3:16, 3:14, 3:08, 3:03, 3:00. I felt really good on this one.

Vapor (Red) Miles: 9.00
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12.000.000.000.0012.00

12 easy out to Whatcom falls. 8x100m strides.

Vapor (Red) Miles: 12.00
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14.200.000.000.0014.20

Longer run up in the Chuckanuts out to Lost Lake.

I got some very bad news today. Due to my health history with Crohn's disease, I petitioned the NCAA for a 6th year of eligibility, and today I finally received word that I was being denied. The logic of their explanation seems erroneous to me, and I plan to fight it if I can. By their ruling, they have effectively shortened the length of my eligibility from 5 years to 4. How do you fight the NCAA's own committee? They're supposed to be the experts in this.

I started college in '04 and tried out for XC but was cut. Then I went on an LDS mission, developed Crohn's disease in the field, and had to return home in February or '06. I tried to train when I got back, but it was hopeless. I was sick from the time I got home to Sept '07 when I had a section of my intestines surgically removed, wiping out 2 XC seasons. I tried to compete again in '08, and then left BYU in '09. Then I came to WWU where I've competed 2 seasons.

The NCAA committee is counting the seasons of '04, '08 and the 2 here at WWU as 4 seasons during which I was healthy and either could have or did compete. And so they won't grant me another, even though they acknowledge my disease was "incapacitating," in their words.

The problem with this is that they shouldn't count my '04 season against me, because I was never on the BYU team. By NCAA rules, I had 4 full seasons of competition remaining in XC when I returned from my mission. They're saying I only had 3. By NCAA rules, you have 5 years to complete 4 seasons of competition. The committee is only giving me 4 years. 

But will they listen? 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

10 easy on the Urb.

Launch Miles: 10.00
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7.000.000.002.009.00

I raced the 5k at our home meet today, but I only made it through 2 miles before stomach issues set in and I had to head for a bathroom. But all of my teammates who raced ran awesome times, 2 freshmen at 15:16, and a bunch of others under the conference qualifying mark of 15:23.

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Vapor (Red) Miles: 43.20Launch Miles: 24.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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