Fly on the Wall

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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,

Member Since:

Nov 14, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

50k:Â 4:59 at Buffalo Run in 2010Â (32 miles)

Marathon:Â 3:01 at St. George in 2009!

Half:Â 1:29 at Painter's/ St. George in 2009.Â 1:27 at Salt Lake in 2009 (aided course)

10k: 40:53 Greek Festival 10k at Sugar House park in 2010.

5miles: 32:10 Dam 2 Dam in 2009.Â Master's winner.

5k: ~~20:00:00~~Â 19:54 in May 2010.

2008:Â Ran the Slam + Boston

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Short-Term Running Goals:

Carpe Diem.

Don't trip over my own feet.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running.

Personal:

1 wife

1 girl child

1 boy child

1 big dog

1 little dog

I'm a geologist for my day job.

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Wed, Sep 09, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
14.20	0.00	0.00	0.00	14.20

14.2 ez on JRP. My legs could feel yesterday's intervals but otherwise just another run in the bag. Started out with a slow warm up. Overall about 8:45 at 144 bpm. 80 degrees.

As I type this I'm noticing the on screen add, "Stop wasting time with long boring cardio workouts that don't burn fat effectively.... Discover shocking fat-burning foods." Dang, I should have skipped my run and eaten some "fat-burning foods" instead. Or maybe it's a good thing I ran instead of eating "shocking food?" Speaking of fat, I have a health check up (through my wife'w work) next week. Anyone want to guess what they measure my body fat at?

Comments

From Smooth on Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 19:52:07 from 71.36.82.61

Wow 14+ miles a day after speedy intervals. YOU'RE AWESOME!

My guess is 3%. Now, if you had eaten that "fat-burning food", it would be 4%. Can't wait to find out!

From Kathie on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:41:06 from 207.155.176.10

What body fat % is healthy for a man? I thought around 10% is healthy for an athletic man so that is where I am going to guess you are at.

From Smooth on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 16:38:29 from 70.56.100.187

So what is it? My bro-in-law had a 5% body fat in his early 40s, not sure what it is now that he's 49 and still running sub-3 marys.

From fly on the Wall on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 18:32:34 from 168.179.215.242

My appointment is next Wednesday.

The health info given at these appointments says ideal for men is 15-18%. On various web sites I've read that minimum is 5%, essential is 4%, and marathoners (elite?) range from 1-8%.

I go to 2 of these checkups a year, one with my work, the other with my wife's work. My work uses a special scale to measure %fat. The other uses some sort of thing on my arm. Neither seems very accurate for oddball outliers. Thus when I've asked if I should be concerned with previous readings I've been told no based on visual observations... So much for technology. Last year about this time the machine said 2.8%. This year it is likely to be between 3% and 7% but the number won't be worth much. It is kind of fun to see the reaction of the tech that takes the reading though! There you have it, confirmation of my scrawniness. Just don't hold it against me...

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