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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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12.332.0014.33

Ran 8 in the AM with Scott in Highland/Alpine.  Was feeling decent, hips still not where they should be, legs felt pretty decent after saturday's run, though the last couple of miles I started to get a pain on the top of the knee cap, seems like it is some quad tendonitis, or something like that.  One of the quad muscles that attaches to the outer/left side of the kneecap is very tight/sore, causing the knee pain.  Stretching, icing, massage, hope it rehabs quickly.  Did 2 1 mile pushes.  6:00 pace and 5:48.  Both felt decent, though the strains on muscles on the inner thigh really start to inhibit speed at around a 6 min pace.  

Ran 6 easy miles with Wes at lunch, knee giving me more problems, had to stop and stretch a few times to try to loosen the knee, almost turned back after the first mile, but still pushed on.   

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Have some tendonitis in my knee.  knee was getting tight as the run went on so turned around at mile 2

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Well, not the 40k or 40 miler that would have been more symbolic.  Knee started getting tight again, but later in the run.  Ran a 5:38 mile on my 40th birthday.  

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10.410.0010.41

Ran Lehi loop from  Matt's house.  Knee allowed me to go farther, felt it get a little sore a few times, but wasn't getting worse.

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South on the JRT.  Left leg still recoverying, not 100% but not getting worse at this point.

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16.502.0018.50

 

Ran from Tibble Fork in AF canyon to my house in Lehi.  My wife dropped me, Ryan, Jody, Scott and Brandon off.  I was worried about the downhill causing my knee issues, but we were taking a reasonable pace which helped.  We ended up averaging an easy sub 6:30 for 18 miles. Mile 17 was 6:05 pace and mile 18 was 5:54, which was a nice push, heart rate went up to 170 on the last mile.  Not sure how I feel about trying to keep that pace for a long time.  Great run, weather was awesome.  Canyon was real and it was spectacular.  Ran on some snow the first few miles which is always fun.  

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