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April 27, 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: 5.10 Month: 25.80 Year: 26.80
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: 47.30
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.002.0012.00

Showed up at the WWU track for mile pace day to find a guy who looked an awful lot like Chris Derrick smashing a series of sub-60 quarters. I can't be sure who it was, but the guy was fast.

For my own workout, I did 4x200m, 6x400m at mile pace w/ 2:1 timed active recoveries. Times were: 32, 33, 32, 33, 67, 67, 67, 66, 67, 67. My legs felt heavy and I couldn't break out of the 67 groove. Perhaps the higher volume week put some garbage in my legs? Or maybe it was too close to my long run. Either way it was frustrating, but I'm practicing patience and just letting my body do what it can. There's plenty of time still for improvement.

Update: Turns out it was Chris Derrick, apparently he's in town. Cool sharing the track with him.

LunaRacer 3 Miles: 8.00Mizuno Ekiden Miles: 4.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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