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Member Since:

Mar 16, 2020

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

High School: won a few state championships, ran some decent times

College: Ran in some cool meets, ran some fast times, competed as a NCAA Division 1 athlete

Post-College:

1mile: 4:55 (May 23rd 2020 solo time trial) 

Short-Term Running Goals:

I'd like to be able to run 16 miles at 6:25 pace at 6,000 feet comfortably again. Maybe run some road races and hop into some track races? 

Long-Term Running Goals:

OTQ? 

Personal:

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4.50

45min total today. Was planning on a chill park loop with some strides, but I ran into travis, nate, clayton, and teron on the track so I started their workout with them. Just did 600m with them at about 5:00 pace. Surprised myself haha didn't think I could last that long. Felt good! 

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3.50

35min total today, park loop with strides. Getting into a routine

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friday rest day

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saturday rest day

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sunday rest day

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4.00

Easy 40 minutes before work, followed by 4x100m barefoot strides on the turf. Felt nice

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4.00

Easy 40min again, followed with 4x200m finishes on the track, hit 32's for them. Didn't feel very smooth, I haven't gone that fast in a while, but felt solid! Also i know i switched over to time instead of mileage, but i like mileage better honestly so i might just download the strava app and record distance on that because i don't have a watch 

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3.52

Ran 3.52 easy from my house, up by cedar high, and finished with some grass loops. They closed the track due to coronavirus, so that sucks. loved training at eccles, wish I could a little more before I leave cedar, but i understand they're just trying to keep people safe, and there have been quite a few people using the track when i've been there. recorded the mileage with strava's gps thing on my phone, and it was kinda glitchy. i need a watch. finished the mileage with 2xBarefoot hill strides in the grass. 

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rest. not feelin it

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rest. not feelin it

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rest. not feelin it

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rest. not feelin it. work really takes it out of me. 

Kidding today! got my arse out the door and ran park loop with barefoot hill strides. 4 total. Felt really good! 

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used strava's record-from-your-phone feature, seems pretty accurate. Ran park loop and finished with grass loops, the usual. 6:49 avg pace. way faster than i'm used to these days, but felt good! 

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no run today; bones from 9 hours of putting up shelves, cabinets, and reorganizing a small warehouse 

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3.00

Ran 3 miles, 2 mile loop with hill strides on grass loops. felt good! 

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3.50

My new watch came today, the Garmin Forerunner 245 Music. It's awesome, I was able to download my playlists from spotify to my watch, so I didn't need to take my phone for music, the watch connected to my headphones. It aso tracks so many things, Vo2 max, tons of different things with heart rate, arterial oxygen saturation, and a ton of other stuff, an exercise science major's dream. 

anyway, ran 3.5 on park loop with grass loops. threw in 2x30 second pickups just to test the quickness of the pace drop with the watch's gps. super accurate! felt good on the run. 

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4.75

ran 4.75 easy, up the canyon and back from mine. 7:05 avg. ran into nate, that was fun to run with an old teammate. i miss those guys. 

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5.00

ran 5 easy today, 7:05 avg. ran from my house to bicent, then looped up through the park and back to my house. nice little loop in the classic cedar city wind. I can really feel myself getting fitter. reminded why i fell madly and hopelessly in love with this sport. improvement you can see. 

i want to do a mile time trial soon, just spike up and go for it. if anyone reads my blog, give me a reasonable date for a time trial and i'll do it lol

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2.50

woke up and ran some shuffle pace grass loops, 8:54 avg. felt really good, beautiful weather too. love those chill sunday shakeouts. probably gonna up the mileage next week, that way I can get ready to start doing real workouts soon. glad to be back into it. 

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no run today. wanted to hangout with my best bud david for the last time before he leaves for oregon and i graduate and move on from cedar city. gonna miss that guy. 

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2.20

only had time for 2.2 miles this morning. 9 hour shift at work and then went up to Scofield to move my grandparents stuff from their cabin. they had to sell it due to getting old. 22 years of memories come to an end, but i'm forever grateful for grandparents who gave me the world. 

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no run; up here in scofield moving. pretty exhausting stuff at 7,200 feet! 

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3.20

ran 3.2 miles on park loop when i got home from scofield. it was hotter than usual in cedar, and i PERISHED. still hit a good clip, 6:38 avg. 

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4.50

ran 4.5 easy, went up dikes and came down near cassie's old apartment. kept it easy, 7:30 avg. felt really good! the fitness is coming together nicely, and i'm getting better at holding back and not feeling the need to run 6:xx pace all the time. 

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5.00

ran 5 total, threw in some 30sec pickups with 1min recovery jog. felt really smooth at 4:55 ish pace! really wanna do a time trial soon. also threw in some hill strides for form on grass loops. good stuff

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2.60

ran 2.6 easy, shuffle pace grass loops. 8:26 avg. love it

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6.50

gonna start doing 2-a-day's again! first morning shakeout of my mileage campaign. 3 easy, warmup loop to grass loops, 7:37 avg. gonna run with my buddy Jose from the tennis team after work. good stuff

after work me and jose ran from my place to cedar high's track, and i did 4x400m with a lap jog in between, hit 67 (forgot how to pace myself in workouts lol) 72, 71, 71. felt good going fast again! 3.5 total. 

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morning: ran 3 easy, classic warmup loop to grass loops

evening: ran with jose again, cedar high's track. i ran barefoot on the infield, felt super good. 3.5 total. 

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figured since i didn't have work today i'd make it a true rest day and not run lol

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5.60

ran 5.6 easy before moving to my new place. moving is so exhausting lol i've now lived in 7 different places in cedar. can't wait to settle down. also i'm having a bit of an existential crisis about getting older, anyone on the blog who's in their mid to late 20's wanna help me with that? i'm only 22 but i'm kinda struggling with the whole concept of not being able to do certain things due to age

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82.37
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