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Location:

Lehi,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 26, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Mt. Nebo Half 2011 - 1st Overall  1:10:17

St. George Marathon 2011 - 38th overall - 2:47:25  

Speedy Spaniard 10k 2011 - 6th Overall - 35:55   6.1 

Hale Freezes Over 10k 2011 - 3rd Overall - 35:56  5.97

St. George Marathon  2010     2:56:35

Hobble Creek Half 2010   4th in age  1:21:19

Highway to Hale 2010    3rd overall  37:25

5k in Lindon  2010   17:16

Utah Valley Marathon 2010, 3:01:26

Lehi 5k, 18:24

Timpanogos Half Marathon, 2010 1:54:29 

Speedy Spaniard 10k  (2009) 40:15

Hale Freezes Over 10k (2010)  40:16

Freedom 10k (2009) 41:34

 Provo River Half  (2009)  1:30:59

Symantec (Lindon) 5k (2009) 19:16

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 17: 5k,   sub 36 10k,  sub 1:15 half, sub 2:40 full

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run a lot, stay healthy

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Brooks Cascadia Lifetime Miles: 114.00
Brooks Launch Lifetime Miles: 761.94
Five Fingers KSO Lifetime Miles: 14.00
Asics Nimbus 10 (13) Lifetime Miles: 496.00
Brooks Launch 2 Lifetime Miles: 33.00
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Highland loop.  Ran a painful 5:56 mile at mile 9.

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Lehi loop from Matt's

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North on JRT with Scott

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Big Springs!!!! Love this run  Should have run it twice. 

 

Went for my second hour of treatments from Dr. Rawlin.  Initially, in my lower body, he found 61 muscles that weren't "firing" correctly.  After doing research the past couple of years into trying to self-treat, educate, and figure out why I get in pain, where the pains come from, and ways to alleviate my own muscle aches and pains, after seeing the long list of muscles that aren't doing their jobs, I finally fully understand all the issues I have had of a lifetime of back and leg issues.

I understand why a few months ago, in particular after I did the 126 mile week, and then after SLC marathon, why I started to get all these very lingering and rotating muscle pains finally settled into certain spots and just became more and more aggravated.  I ran out of muscles for the body to use to compensate for muscles that don't fire correctly.  This also explains why anytime I try to do speed work and reach into a real pushing harder zone my hamstrings seize up and shut down the effort.  For the past three years I have been able to get the cardio and efficiency working without ever really pushing the body into new speed zones.  

From what it seems to me, the body has compensated its way into working pretty efficiently for the parts that do work, but when you ask your body to push past the limits of the muscles that are in compensation mode that's when the tightness, in particular my hamstrings hits and I have to slow back down.

After he got done activating muscles today the retested them to see what I had left to activate.  And while he was testing lower leg muscles I understood why my adductors had had so many problem recently, they have been compensating for most of the muscles in my lower legs as well as quads and hamstrings.  When he would try to get me to use the lower leg muscles the adductors would try to take over to make the movement happen.  So thinking about all of this, I wonder about how when a muscle is off and we don't realize it, but we recognize that we have some muscle weakness, and try to strenghten it in various ways, whether at the gym or various ply exercises if we are just strenghthening the compensating muscles to make them be able to keep compensating in the plane of movement that they shouldn't have to work in, which enables us to go faster or go longer using the wrong muscles.  

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south on jrt

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Highland/Alpine loop from Scott's

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Murdoch canal trail from matt's

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Soccer park in orem up provo canyon

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South on JRT

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Soccer Park up South Fork with Brandon, Fritz and Scott.

Bonked hard with 2 or 3 to go.  Got a good five mile tempo run in which felt decent.  Still pain/tighteness in hip 

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Did 5.5 miles barefoot on grass in the park.  Grass drills, sprints, ladders, sideways, backwards.  Very enjoyable run.

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South on JRT

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south on jrt

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Provo Canyon to south fork with Wes

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Ran from Scott's up AF canyon with Scott and Brandon.  Did a 3 mile tempo run after we turned around.  6:17, 5:34, 5:17 (includes half at 5:01 pace)

Hip still not where it should be, but adductor not bothering me too much 

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Race: Speedy Spaniard (6.2 Miles) 00:36:23
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Ran the Speedy Spaniard course this morning.  Met Brandon before the race and did a 3 mile warm up.  Still having some hip problems, wasn't really expecting much given the previous few months.  Things went better than I thought they would, and was only 30 seconds slower than last year.  Haven't lost too much. 

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Ran with Scott and Reed.  Hip completely gave out a few miles into the run so cut it short.

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Ran in Orem

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Ran most of the Sogonopmit marathon.  Had to stop every few miles to loosen the hip.  I finally figured out that it is the psoas that is causing all these hip issues that I have been having.  Most other issues are resolving, but this one is difficult.  Some internal snapping hip syndrome.

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Ran during 95 degree weather in the afternoon up provo canyon.  After two days of hip massage, made it through the run without too much discomfort.

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Ran 10 miles south on JRT with Reed, Scott and Matt.  Hip tightened up pretty bad the last mile. 

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