| Location: Spanish Fork,UT,USA Member Since: Aug 01, 2006 Gender: Male Goal Type: Marathon Finish Running Accomplishments: I started running about ten and a half years ago. I have ran three marathons. SGM in 2005, Ogden in 2006, and SGM 2006. My best time in a marathon is Ut. Valley Marathon 3:59:46. I have ran seven half marathons, some 10k's and 5k"s. My favorite marathon is SGM.I have ran 13 Marathons, will be during my first Ultra in march of 2013, it will be the Antalope Island Buffalo Run, a 50k.
2008 SGM PR 4:02:23 The best is yet to come. Short-Term Running Goals: Short term running goal is to increase my four days a week of running to five to six days a week. Do more speed work this coming year. Bring my times down. I would like to do SGM in 4 hrs or less. Long-Term Running Goals: Keep up with my Brother Clay in a marathon, someday do a sub four hour marathon, and BQ. Personal: I have been married for 34Years, and am still madly in love with my wife Wendy. I have four children and six Grand children.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 134.83 | 17.10 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 155.93 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 93.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 93.50 | |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.75 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
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I finally got to sleep in this more have'nt done that for a while. It felt good, and was nice to have the rain in the night. It made for perffect sleeping conditions. Wendy and I headed out the door about 9 this more, I did a couple of miles with her and did my golf course route. Wendy is doing awesome she is up to about 4 miles, and looking awesome. I was able to get back from my run just before another band of hail and rain hit.
SGM is only about a month away, it is hard to believe that race day is just around the corner. I am very excited for this years race. My goal for this year is 4hrs or less that would be my ultimate time, Realistically around 4 and a half. Hopefuly we will have great weather for the race. Lets party !!!!!! |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 7.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.30 |
| Today was a litle recovery run, and plan on taking it on the easy side for the rest of this week in order to try and do well in this weeks half marathon. I tryed to keep it on the flats today and did only a few small hills. The weather was perfect for an afternon run. A slight breeze and temps around 70, I love the fall running weather. I finished with 200 crunches. |
| Night Sleep Time: 5.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.31 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.31 |
| I don't know why the old legs have been so wack this week but they are gonzo. I think it is good to have a down week once in a while. Nice and cool again today which made for a very fine afternoon run. Running in the fall is awesome. Finished with 20 crunches, and I hope tomorrow the legs will be back. |
| Night Sleep Time: 5.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.77 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.77 |
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I sure hope my legs rebound before sat half marathon, they are just wack this week. I can't figure it out. I think it was good to have this week as a down week. I finished with 200 crunches. Ya I know pretty boring blog.
On a little more exciting note, my daughter Haylie had a baby bo this more, a 8 plus pounder. I think he is going to be a big guy. That makes a total of 5 Grandchildren, One girl and four boys. What a great blessing. |
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Spanish Fork Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:45:17 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 9.10 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.10 |
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Race day and a beautiful morn it was. Perfect cool race conditions and no wind, lots of people. I think 600 plus this race keeps getting bigger every year and they have a great prize drawing after the race.
As far as the run went today not as fast as Provo Rivers half, this one has alot more uphill so I think it was a little more difficult, plus I made a mistake of walking through 2 aid stations. My average pace was 8:06. I don't know if I can hold that pace for all of SGM next month, we will just have to see. Mile splits are as follows.
Mile 1. 8:03
2. 8:13 Begining of uphill throught the river bottoms
3. 8:21
4. 8:21
5. 8:01
6. 8:33
7. 8:26
8. 7:41 Finally a little bit of down hill
9. 8:04
10. 7:49
11. 8:03
12. 7:56
13.1. 7:46 Finished strong, but felt a little out of gas.
My goal in both half marathons was to get in under 1:50:00 so I feel good about that, now for SGM I am trying for 4hrs or less, but will probablly be around 4:30:00. One more hard week of training and the tapper. See ya next week. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.25 |
| Very wack legs today but not as wack as they were after provo river half. So we keeped it at the very slow turtle pace until we feel better. This week will be my last big milage week and then head into the taper for SGM. On sat I want to do at least 20 plus we will see how things go with the recovery. I finished with 200 crucnhes. |
| Night Sleep Time: 5.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 7.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.25 |
| As I headed out the door for my run the skys werelooking like rain. By the time I got to gu corner it was coming down kind od moderate. It actually felt good and made for a very comfortable run. My legs felt alot better today and I decided to pick the pace up little more than yesterdays. Don't want to post the mile splits, might be a bit embarrassing. I enjoyed runing in the rain, it was a great run. catch ya tomorrow. |
| Night Sleep Time: 5.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.25 |
| Just a nice easy run and enjoying the nice fall weather and getting excited for SGM. I'm worried about Wendy, she is in Houston this week with my daughter Haylie who had a baby boy last week. 8lbs-4oz. Hurricaine Ike is getting to close. Wendy is supposed to fly out sat morn which is the time Ike is going to come ashore. Pray for her and my daughter's family. |
| Night Sleep Time: 5.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| I just had time to get in a 5 miler I need to pick up the girls from there dance class. It looks like Wendy and Haylie & Grandkids found a flight tomorrow morn at 8. It looks like Houston will take a direct hit from hurricaine Ike. It has been a nerve racking day to try and find a flight out of Houston. My Son-law will be staying behind to try and ride it out, his work needs to have him close by. So we are praying that he will do will and get through the storm ok. I hope and pray that the people in the Houston area will be ok. The next few days are going to be scary for our son-in-law, hang tuff David. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 16.13 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 22.13 |
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Yahoo it's tapper time !!!!
We made it the big tapper. And so far no real injuries. Just the usuall aches and pains of running.
Was able to run with my bro Clay for most of the long run today. We have not been able to do that for a while our schedules seemed to work out today and it was very injoable. Felt ok for the run still kind of smarting from last sat half marathon but we hung with it and it turned out to be a great run.I still seem to hit a little wall around mile 18 to 19 and have to really concentrate to work through it, but once we get passed it I do ok. From here on out plan on reduced mile and let this old body repaire and get strong for SGM. Bring it on baby, bring it on.
On a very blessed note my son-in-law made it through hurricaine Ike. Lots of flooding and wind damage but still alive and no injuries. As a family we feel very blessed today. Massive storm so hard to even comprehend. |
| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.34 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.34 |
| Today was all about recovery after sat long 22 miler, I seem to be a little sore which is to be expected at this faze of the marathon training. My body is feeling more tired than anything which is due to not enough zzzzzz's. It probabley wont get any better in that department. We will see ya tomorrow. |
| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 7.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.13 |
| Legs did feel a little better today which gives me a bit of hope, I went up around the golf course and down powerhouse road. I'm trying to take it easy as to not have any injuries for the SGM, I finished with 200 crunches. |
| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.22 |
| My legs had zero energy today I don't know what happened but they just did not want to go today. I think the months of training are catching up to me. I don't want to have any injures so I went real easy and tryed to have fun with the run. Finished with 200 crunches, |
| Night Sleep Time: 5.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 7.33 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.33 |
| Seem to have a little more energy today than I have had this week. I think last sat 22 miler took more out of me than I thought. I guess that's why we need to tapper and spend the next three weeks recovering and healing for the big one on oct. 4th. I'm not sure how far my long run is going to be this weekend, at least 15 we will see how the legs feel. I finished with 200 crucnches today se ya latter. |
| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 15.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.13 |
| Started the day out at 1:15 am this morn had to go into work for five hrs, so by the time I got out the door for my run it was 8:00 am. It's a good thing we are into the fall so the cooler weather made for nice running conditions this morn. I headed out over harrys hill and into salem this morn, my goal was at least a 15 miler. The first three miles my legs and body just felt really wack and then mile four things started to loosen up and I finally felt like running. My pace was nice and easy it will stay this way until SGM in two weeks. It's almost here and the excitment is starting to build. Should be an awesome time. I only did one lap up around the golf course today and then headed home. I hope everyone has a great weekend. |
| Night Sleep Time: 4.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 4.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.13 |
| Nice fall run today, great temps in the afternoon I love running this time of year. Ran with Wendy for a little bit then she went her own way. I ran out past gu corner then turned around and headed home. Just keeping things nice an easy for the marathon in a few weeks. I finished with 200 crunches. |
| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.28 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.28 |
| Just continuing with my mellow runs as we don't want to have a blow out before SGM. Today we ran up to the golf course and then back home, nice easy rolling hills up and nice easy rollinf hills down. I guess it was a rollie pollie run. Great weather again did the 200 crunch thing again. See ya later tomatter. |
| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.13 |
| Not alot to report the legs for going through a tapper are sure dead this week. It has been a weird week none the less. I finished with 200 crunches have a great day. |
| Night Sleep Time: 5.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 12.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.13 |
| For being a down week my legs have felt really sluggish and non-responsive this week. I hope next sat they show up for the marathon. It's crunch time and the excitment bug is starting to work overtime. I is hard to believe that it's time to party. Our family is going down to SG on wed. Our friends have a condo down there with a swimming pool and hot tub should be a fun time. Our son Bryan and his fam are also coming down to injoy the festivities. I hope everyone has a great weekend and week. See around the corner. |
| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 134.83 | 17.10 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 155.93 |
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