| Location: Logan,UT, Member Since: Jan 26, 2009 Gender: Male Goal Type: Marathon Finish Running Accomplishments: Finished two Big Sur Marathons (BSIM) in 1999 (3:59 I think, and I can't remember exactly what year!) and 2008 (4:25.28). Had knee problems before 2008 BSIM and so didn't train sufficiently - hoping to stay injury free for 2009 event. 95:23 in 2006 in Tilden Tough Ten (10 miles) in Berkeley, Calif.
Logan First Dam Run 2006 53 mins (can't remember exactly) - Have to take these things more seriously!
Short-Term Running Goals: Break 3:45 in 2009 Big Sur Marathon and 3:30 in 2010.
Long-Term Running Goals: Run at least 1 Marathon and 1 1/2 Marathon every year . Personal: Single; Trying to learn Spanish - listening to Spanish radio podcasts while running - dos parajos de un tiro!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 162.00 | 6.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 171.00 |
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| New Balance 817 Miles: 111.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| USU to green gate in GC. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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Well, new shoes and a new, lighter, reflective running top so was feeling psyched. But I was barely in the cemetery next to USU when I slipped on some ice - thought the knee was shot again like last year at about this time. So tried to warm it up and massage it and finally it felt OK. Then 1.5 miles in some idiot in a big Chevy Suburban makes a really fast left turn behind me while I was still in the junction - probably the reflective top draw him in like a moth. It scared the daylights out of me - from then on couldn't concentrate on the Spanish radio podcast I was trying to listen to. Put in 2 sub-9 min miles and called it a day at 5. The New Balance 817s aren't exactly the most stylish but they are really comfortable.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
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To GC. Air quality abysmal - way worse than SLC. Why don't we have smog testing here? Why don't we have random tail pipe remote sensing? Why don't we have an emissions tax on gas guzzlers and a bigger gas tax instead of furloughs from the state...why why why... why even ask..
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| New Balance 817 Miles: 6.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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Green Air Day! To GC -> NL->USU.
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| New Balance 817 Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
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Smithfield. 10 min pace average.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| GC. Snowed. |
| New Balance 817 Miles: 6.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.90 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.90 |
| Almost to green gate in GC from USU - too much snow and ice to make it all the way. Lovely afternoon - sun came out and spectacular views of the Wellsville mountains. |
| New Balance 817 Miles: 6.90 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.20 |
| 1600E o&b |
| New Balance 817 Miles: 7.20 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.60 |
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1200E -> 3400N then back on 1600E taking in side trip to gate at GC.
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| New Balance 817 Miles: 10.60 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.10 |
| Berkeley - trails muddy so did Inspiration Point rather than Strawberry canyon. In parts it was like heavy footing with so much mud on the shoes, a sport I'd never heard of until I saw it on the TV in the airport on the way here. Spectacular views of San Francisco and Golden Gate Bridge. Rained and was windy. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.20 |
| Inspiration point - asphalt trail except for the last 1/2 mile and back at the half-way mark - so avoided the 7 mile muddy ups and downs of yesterday. Rained hard and lots of very strong wind. Good fun. 10.5 min miles. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.20 |
| Last Bay Area run for a while! |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.40 |
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Back to Paradise with a vengeance. I failed the redneck test miserably - two 350 lb (+) guys roll up to the mouth of Green Canyon in giant pickups hauling Snow Kats replete with king size caterpillar tracks. One guy is so big he is oozing out of the window of his Kat. They then proceed to zoom up Green Canyon in a flurry of snow and fumes. I have no idea why or where they were going but try as I might I couldn't generate any sense of envy for their rigs...what's wrong with me? It just shows how 4 days in Berkeley can totally trash one's values....
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| New Balance 817 Miles: 8.40 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| 1200 E -> 3700N and back on 1600E. Trying to string together back-to-back 60 mile weeks - hard going this week. Have a 17 miler scheduled for Saturday - so we'll see. |
| New Balance 817 Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.25 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 7.25 |
| USU -> Green Gate in Green Canyon and back - really hard to motivate myself to go but had a good run with 3 sub-9 min miles on the way back [admittedly 1.5 were downhill :-)].... |
| New Balance 817 Miles: 7.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Well, got side-swiped by a red air day alert which I wasn't expecting on a weekend - don't have time to spare today to go to Bear Lake and so the 60 mile week plan bites the dust. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.60 |
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USU -> 3400N and back on 1600 East. Good air and warm; so warm, in fact, that I started to overheat a bit coming back. Great day for running - at last.
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| New Balance 817 Miles: 8.60 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.71 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.71 |
| Was shooting for 9 but tried a slightly different configuration of the same old routes, just for variety and it came out a bit short. Did manage a couple of 8:30 - 8:45 miles, I like the NB817s but today I kicked the inside ankle bone of the right foot at least 4 times with the back of the left shoe and now the skin is off. No idea why I've started to do this.
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| New Balance 817 Miles: 8.71 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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| New Balance 817 Miles: 7.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.84 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.84 |
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Left from USU and went to Smithfield on 1200E; past 5000N to Pebble Creek Road and then back. Got lost in Smithfield and so had some backtracking to do. Then a friendly Golden Labrador adopted me for 1.5 miles and so had to stop at a house in N. Hyde Park and call owner - was waiting outside for him for 15 mins, so was stopped for 20 mins. Got really cold - in fact it felt brutally cold all the time. Then a couple stopped me to ask for directions - I thought of begging them to let me sit in their car to warm up. It's been a disappointing week mileage wise. In part due to (i) poor air at the start of the week and (ii) spending all afternoon yesterday trying to unblock a drain at home which meant I didn't run. But the real problem is the psychological trauma from pounding the long, cold, bleak Cache Valley highways. In Smithfield I had fantasies of dropping down into town, getting a Big Mac and Fries, and then the bus home. I'm really fed up. At least Jan. and Feb. are over....writing this in my office with a down parka on that's how cold I got.
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| New Balance 817 Miles: 15.84 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 162.00 | 6.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 171.00 |
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| New Balance 817 Miles: 111.50 |
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