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Location:

Clearfield,UT,

Member Since:

Dec 02, 2013

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

800M : 1:48 a few times in 2011

1500M : 3:48 CAL Berkely

10K : 30:10 NCAA Regionals Cross Country took 18th

Half Marathon: 1:08 TOU Half , 1:08 USA Half Marathon Championships

Marathon: 2:26 St. George Marathon

Short-Term Running Goals:

Break 2:23 in the Marathon in 2014

Break 1:06 in the Half Marathon in 2014

2014 Schedule

Ice Breaker Tri (March 29th)

Boston Marathon (April 21st)

Utah Valley Marathon (June 14th)

Bryce Canyon Half Marathon (July 12th)

Deseret News Half Marathon (July 24th)

Hobble Creek Half Marathon (Aug 17th)

Top of Utah Half Marathon (Aug 24th)

Top of Utah Marathon (Sept 21st)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Break 2:20 in the Marathon

Get as close as possible to Olympic Qualifying standard

Personal:

I am married to my amazing wife and have an 8 month old daughter who will soon be walking!!!

Family is huge to me and their support is key in progressing in my running career.

I run for Skechers Elite Performance Team and I am doing all that I can to make them proud!!!

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Skechers Ride 3 (HOU) Lifetime Miles: 350.00
Skechers Ultra Blue Lifetime Miles: 186.00
Skechers Ride 3 (BLK) Lifetime Miles: 279.95
Go Speed 2 (Gold/Grey) Lifetime Miles: 41.50
Go Speed 2 (HOU) Lifetime Miles: 122.90
Skechers GoRun 4 (RD/BLK) Lifetime Miles: 132.50
Total Distance
97.00
Skechers Ride 3 (BLK) Miles: 63.70Skechers Ultra Blue Miles: 18.00
Total Distance
25.00

I met up with Bret about 4:50 and we ran 9 and half miles before we looped back to pick up Jon.

The run went pretty well, I felt that my legs were feeling the TRI from Saturday I was doing pretty well for the first half then legs started feeling pretty tired and heavy. Bret wanted to go fast so he took off and I ran with Jon until the last 4 miles or so then he took off as well. For me the run was not about running crazy fast, it was about finshing it at a decent pace. I accomplished just that, I averaged 6:55 for the entire 25 miles and the last 4 miles or so were between 7:20 and 8:00 pace as it was uphill not the best way to end a long run.

Today was my last long run before the Boston Marathon and I am very glad about that. My legs are starting to feel the longer mileage at this time. The best part is the pain I was feeling around my ankle last week has disappeared and went away. It is a maracle I was getting very worried about it. I can't wait to start to taper and drop mileage my body will think it is in heaven.

Skechers Ride 3 (BLK) Miles: 25.00
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Total Distance
12.00

AM- 4 Easy miles on Mt. Road I felt heavy from yesterday's 25

PM- Legs still felt heavy, on one mile up a hill I pushed it hard and hit a 6:59 it is all uphill so I was happy that I could hit that on tired legs. It gave me confidence that I can still push hard even when my legs are tired and heavy. That will come in to help me out greatly during the Boston Marathon. 8 miles on Mt. Road

Skechers Ultra Blue Miles: 4.00Skechers Ride 3 (BLK) Miles: 8.00
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Total Distance
16.70

AM- Met up with Bryant to run Mile repeats

We ran 2.7 as a warn up and then got started on the beast. We ran them down on the Farmington trail by Farmington Station.

1st- 5:09 Slightly downhill

2nd- 5:07 Slightly downhill

3rd- 5:06 Flat with a little uphill

4th- 5:10 All uphill

5th- 5:26 Hardest rep all Uphill much more incline I was feeling it and legs felt heavy

6th- 5:13 Slight Uphill

I know that if I ran these reps at the Pond like I usually do, I would have been around a 5:06 average or so. We did 90 sec rest in between each rep. The uphills took a lot out of me. My effort was definately there and I am getting in better and better shape.

Cool down was 2 miles

PM- Ran easy 6 miles on Mt. Road

Skechers Ride 3 (BLK) Miles: 16.70
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Total Distance
14.00

AM- Easy 6 miler on Mt. Road

PM- Easy 8 miler on Mt. Road

Skechers Ultra Blue Miles: 14.00
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Total Distance
14.00

Easy 14 miles in the morning down past lagoon and onto legacy parkway trail before we went to my sister in laws wedding. Legs felt really heavy going out, I was in between 7-7:45 pace every mile. Coming back was much faster around 6:30-7 pace most of the way back. I hope my legs can feel much more fresh not running twice today. We will see tomorrow as I am planning to run a part of the Strider's Half Marathon.

Skechers Ride 3 (BLK) Miles: 14.00
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Total Distance
15.30

I ran part of the Striders Half Marathon. This week has been rough with a lot of miles and legs have started feeling heavy. My goal going into the race was to tempo anywhere from 6-10 miles, that all depending on how my legs were holding up. As the race started I went with the leaders until around 4 then I started to feel how tired my legs were. I only did 6 miles and then I turned around and picked up Spencer and ran the rest of the race with him. We still finished at a pretty good clip bouncing back and forth between 6:20 and 7:00 pace. The second half of the course was a lot like Boston. Rolling hills and getting the legs use to running the rollers with tired legs.

I am glad I ran it today. I am feeling very very good about this week's runs. I feel that I will be ready for Boston in two weeks and I am approaching it as a "Go Big or Go Home" mentality. I want to throw down another huge PR and run around a 2:20 to 2:22 at the slowest. Every Marathon I have put in more miles and I have gotten faster at each one. I hope this can be my 5th Marathon in a row that I improve.

Total for today was 15.3 Miles

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Total Distance
97.00
Skechers Ride 3 (BLK) Miles: 63.70Skechers Ultra Blue Miles: 18.00
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