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Location:

SLC,UT,

Member Since:

Nov 12, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

High School: 

5th place 2007 Region 2 cross country

2nd place 2008 Region 2 1600m

3rd place 2008 Region 2 3200

9th place 2008 5A State 1600m (4:27)

4th place 2008 5A State 3200m (9:36)

800: 2:04

Road Races: 

5k: 16:06 (sea-level)

5k: 15:50 (Rex Lee Run '09)

5k: 14:52 (Running with the Leopards '09)

10k: 32:19

Half Marathon: 1:14:34 (Provo Halloween Half 2011) 

Marathon: 3:11 (Utah Valley 2017)

Walked on the BYU cross country team as a freshman.

Short-Term Running Goals:

-Get back in prime running shape.

-Rebuild my base:

16:30 5k

34:00 10k

1:13 Half

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

-Boston Qualifier

Personal:

-Got married March of 2018. No kids yet, but we have a cat name Chaco.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Nike Skylon Lifetime Miles: 639.40
Nike Skylon 2 Lifetime Miles: 239.80
Brooks Defyance 4 Lifetime Miles: 118.46
New Balance 1400 Lifetime Miles: 130.01
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.253.756.00

Today I did a track workout. I was planning on doing 1000, 800, 600, 400, 200, 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000. I started by warming up a mile. The first 1000 was 3:02. It felt okay, but not great. The 800 was 2:25, and it didn't feel good. I was at 69 at the first 400, and the second 400 felt horrible. The 600 was 1:44. This one felt okay, but I was struggling the last 200. On the four hundred I was hurting  lot, but still managed a 65. The first 200 was hard, and it was a 31. The second 200 was better, 29. The next 400 was worse, 68. After that, I just felt really bad. I had a headache, and was really lightheaded. The 600 was 1:50. I could barely finish. The 800 was the worst one. I came through the 400 at 72, and was hoping to finish in 68, but I fell apart. The last 200 was really slow, at least 40 seconds. I got a really bad sideache, and couldn't breathe. I called it quits after that one, considering I could barely move.

This was not a good workout. I only hit my goal times on the first 1000, 400, and the second 200. I still had a stomach-ache, like on Saturday, before my race. The only other thing I can think of is dehydration. I fasted yesterday, and I got a really bad headache the second interval into the workout. I'm taking it easy the next two days, and then on Thursday, I'm doing a Tempo run in Provo. (I'm moving to Provo on Wednesday.)

Comments
From jhorn on Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 19:08:40

You are a great runner and with your high mileage you are sure to improve, but you can't expect better results every week, my man. You did a track work-out 2 days after a bad race where you were pushing yourself. I know you wanted to redeem yourself from a bad race, but that's not the way to do it, you have to do it using a different dynamic of your running since you've already used up one dymanic. You run a fast race (speed) so then you decide to do a speed workout? Of course is was bad. There are three parts to running: strength, speed and stamina (endurance). You really should only work on one of these areas at a time and have both short term and long term plans for each. A short term idea would be 2 weeks where you really focus on speed, and then lay off that. You are already increasing your mileage more than at any time in your life. This will reap its benefits, but you have to be very careful when incorporating other parts of improvement, since you are already pushing yourself so much. I just want to encourage you to be patient, any benefit from a work-out will take at least 10 days for you to get the results from, so don't be hard on yourself, keep running strong, especially if you have a bad day, just run comfortably and recognize that your body is getting better.

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