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January 2012

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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,

Member Since:

Nov 14, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

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

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

Half:  1:29 at Painter's/ St. George in 2009.  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.  Master's winner.

5k: 20:00:00  19:54 in May 2010.

2008:  Ran the Slam + Boston

I need to update this!

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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127.950.009.000.00136.95
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.500.000.000.005.50

jrp.

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3.500.000.000.003.50

jrp.

1.5 weeks til it is time to start training for Ogden. 

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Too smoggy to run.  

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6.000.000.000.006.00

I ran after work and to avoid the smog I ran from Churchill Drive to the upper tower and a bit beyond.  It was a very enjoyable run.  But the run is not in my Garmin???  Or maybe I'm loosing my mind.

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4.500.000.000.004.50

Finally some snow!  Some first tracks towards the lower towers but I ran out of time and had to cut it short.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.300.000.000.005.30

JRP.  Battery died so I'm not sure on the mileage but who cares.

This is my last slackard week before I start training for Ogden.  I don't even know what training plan I'm going to use. 

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6.150.000.000.006.15

JRP.

Hmm... I don't really like having a political candidate staring at me from the advertising box on this page.  Oh well.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.100.000.000.008.10

JRP EZ.  

The JRP connection to the Legacy Parkway Trail has less than a dozen boards till completion.  

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4.200.000.000.004.20

EZ JRP

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11.100.000.000.0011.10

I ran on the BST toward the U.  It was a great run.  One of the best I've had since summer.  Hopefully I am ready to start training for Ogden on Monday.  

 I've decided to use Hansons' Less-Is-More Plan for Ogden.  This is the plan I used for St. George last year.  Previously I've used Pfitz 18/70.  My time at St. George was 4 minutes slower than my St. George PR but using an age adjusting calculator reduces that 4 minutes to 1 minute.  Last year the ave temp on marathon day was 78° vs. 54° on the day I set my PR.  Maybe warm enough to account for the extra minute?   Maybe I did just as good with the Less plan?  I guess the bottom line is, who cares.  I'm not running to win anything.  The Less plan will give me more time for other stuff.  

 On the other hand the Less plan looks easier on paper that it feels to run it.  I hope my body can handle the plan and the Slam.  Oh I am not looking forward to speed work again.  

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Cross training- skiing with kids.  It will be a day to remember.  A day to compare all other bad snow days to.  It was the worst Utah snow conditions I've ever seen.  We were skiing on thin ice.  The only place you could ski was the groomers and they had rocks, sticks, grass, logs, and all sorts of stuff poking through.  It made me laugh.  I read that Snow Bird has resorted to covering some areas with carpet!  Pray for snow this week.  The forecast looks promising.  

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First day of training for Ogden.  

8 years of running anniversary! 

Must motivate self for speed work tomorrow!   Ugh... 

  

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1/2 warm up.  1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4 interval ladder with 1/4 mile jog/walk recovery. 0.9 cool down. Goal pace about 6:15

6:16, 6:13,  6:16, 6:20, 6:26, 6:07.  OUCH.  ~15mph south wind effected pacing.  But so did no speed work since September.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.100.000.000.006.10

ez on JRP.

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ez on JRP.  

Very warm, 52°. This has been the strangest winter and the worst ski season ever.  :( 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.200.000.000.008.20

ez jrp

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6.000.000.000.006.00

Downtown. 

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Ho hum another run on the JRP.

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1/2 warm up.  1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4 interval ladder with 1/4 mile jog/walk recovery. 1/2 mile cool down. Goal pace about 6:15

6:09, 6:07, 6:12, 6:16, 6:11, 6:08.  Faster, more consistent, and not quite as much OUCH as last week.  (I'll probably suck wind next week....)  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.100.000.000.006.10

same ol' lunch time run...

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3.400.000.000.003.40

I don't like running in the rain unless it is warm.  It was kind of cold, so I cut it short.

 

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Ran up City Creek canyon.  Very pretty.

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I've caught my daughter's cold, or some such illness. Blah.

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Blah... stinking cold.  Hopefully it doesn't migrate into my chest. 

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2.300.003.000.005.30

Still have the cold, but it isn't so bad and I'm still not coughing. 

1/2 warm up.  1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4 interval ladder with 1/4 mile jog/walk recovery. 1/2 mile cool down. Goal pace about 6:15

6:10, 6:12, 6:13, 6:14, 6:09, 6:04     All at or under goal pace, plenty good enough.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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