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Location:

Riverton,UT,

Member Since:

Jun 19, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Short-Term Running Goals:

 2022 Running Goals:

Stay fit and healthy.  Run a decent Boston and St. George marathon.

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep fit and stay semi-competitive as long as I can.

 

Personal:

I have a wonderful wife and son and we live in Riverton/Herriman Utah. I am a high school teacher, and head coach for cross country and track at Mountain Ridge High. 

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Type A Lifetime Miles: 66.60
Saucony Kinvara 8 Green Lifetime Miles: 131.90
Hoka Speedgoat 3 Lifetime Miles: 408.85
Nike Zoom Fly (Black) Lifetime Miles: 236.85
Saucony Endorphin Pro Lifetime Miles: 59.50
Saucony Endorphin Shift Lifetime Miles: 231.50
Saucony Triumph 18 Gray Lifetime Miles: 99.20
Nike ZoomX Invincible FK 2 Lifetime Miles: 107.50
Altra Rivera 2 Black Lifetime Miles: 25.62
Nike Zoom Alphafly Lifetime Miles: 35.10
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.300.000.000.000.008.30

For those of you who didn't get up at 5:45am and run on the dark streets of Logan, you won't know what I am talking about, and you definitly didn't miss out.   It had rained, snowed, and frozen last night, and every inch of roads and sidewalks were covered with black-ice.  It such a joke trying to run, and probably not worth my time. I needed my hockey skates on, not my running shoes! 

I went down Boulevard, into the island, through River Heights, and looped around Providence.  I came back the exact way I went out, because I didn't dare run up any kind of hills.  I spent more energy trying to not slip and fall than I actually did running.  I wish I could have run later on in the day because it ended up nice.  Slow time: 1:03:52

I lifted my upper body at the HPER tonight for an hour.

Comments
From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:27:12

Good work. For the next three weeks, I would recommend doing those types of runs - minimum of 8 miles, get out 6 times a week, does not matter how slow, just be out there and run comfortably.

From James on Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 00:45:04

I think that would be a good recommendation if I was ready or able to do that right now. I am just getting started and I am not ready for 50 mile weeks yet. I have been bumping up my mileage 5 miles per week. I am going to run 35 this week and 40 next. In a couple of weeks I will be up around 50 and will start doing more tempo and speed. So far this schedule is working out me, so I will stick with it. Also, with my school and work I have a hard time running on tuesdays, and if I do end up with some time it will be very short.

Thanks for the feedback.

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