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Location:

Provo,UT,USA

Member Since:

Mar 01, 2004

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

World Class

Running Accomplishments:

PRs 14:47 5 K (Portland Twilight), 1:06:33 (Utah Valley Half Marathon (aided)).

As a 14 year old in 2013: 4:31.58 1500. 9:35:32 3000m (Utah Youth boys state record). 17:01 5K (Draper Days). 1:15:21 half (Utah Valley (aided)).

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get the marathon under 2:20.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Make it to the Olympics in the marathon. Keep training throughout my life.

Personal:

 I have five brothers and five sisters,
all younger. I'm currently a PhD Student in the CSEM (computational science) program at UT Austin. Married, no kids (yet). I've been dealing with some issues in running the last few years, and am trying to get back into top shape.  

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Today did 3x2 - 11:10 (up), 9:55 (down), and 10:59 (up). We got out a little earlier due to Matthew's baptism later that day, so it was pretty cold. Total of 16.

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We were in St. George today, and my younger siblings did mile time trials. Both Stephen and Matthew got a mile record of 6:06. I did an interval chasing them - ended up with 4:43.

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Repeated the 3x2 workout. Things went a little better than last week - 10:56 (up), 9:50 (down), and 10:46 (up). Total of 16 miles.

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Today tried doing 2x1 mile fast again.

This time it wasn't as cold - I got 4:35 (68, 69, 69, 69) and 4:36 (67, 69, 72, 68). Had some tight muscles in the left leg afterward but not as bad as last time.

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Did 3x2 with two intervals uphill and one down. There was some snow on the road - not enough to make a workout impossible, but enough to be a nuisance. My splits were 11:07 (5:28, 5:39 up), 9:58 (5:01, 4:57 down), and 10:46 (5:21, 5:25 up). By the third interval some of the snow had melted, which really helped.

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Today did 2x1 mile down the canyon. The first was 4:36, according to target. For the second one my target was 4:32. I started out fast (66) and with a quarter to go saw that a record was in the cards. Kicked in 64 seconds and got 4:26.8. This is a new down-the-canyon record for me.

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Snow kept us from doing a decent workout today, so we did easy pace for the long run.

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Today the longest ice-free stretch in the canyon was 1K, so I did 10x1K, alternating down and up. It had been a while since I did this workout, but it turned out well. Uphilll  I got 3:24, 3:12, 3:16, 3:13, 3:12. Downhill my splits were 2:59, 3:00, 2:59, 2:56, and 2:58.  Ended up with around 14.5. The wind was blowing down the canyon, so I'm especially happy with the uphill intervals.

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Did a mile pickup in 4:45.

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Today the canyon had too much snow for a workout, so we did 6x800 meters uphill. The half mile up the old Carterville road from Center Street to our house has some pretty steep grades. My target was 2:30 - I was a little slower on most of the intervals, but got it on the last one (2:34, 2:35, 2:34, 2:33, 2:32 and 2:27). The first quarter was usually around 74 seconds, and the last one around 80 seconds (it has the worst uphill). 

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