| Location: Medford,OR,USA Member Since: Aug 07, 2014 Gender: Male Goal Type: NCAA Champ Running Accomplishments: High School:
XC 5K: 15:57.3
1500: 4:04.55
800: 2:01.05
400: 53.07
3000: 9:18.43
College
5000: 13:59.58 (UW Indoor Invite 2021)
Mile: 4:07 (converted from 4:12.07 at altitude; also converted by NCAA to 3:48.8 for 1500)
10000: 29:38.73 (Mt. SAC relays 2022)
Indoor 3000: 8:13 (converted from 8:24.76 at BYU indoor race, 1/16/21)
800: 1:55.6@ (solo time trial at Provo high school, 2019)
400: 51.84h (solo time trial at NMHS, 2015)
Post-College
Half Marathon: 1:06:23 (Garry Bjorklund Half, June 2023)
Road race 10K: 30:27 (Get in Gear, April 2023)
13.1 miles: 1:06:16 (Hobbler Half, July 2023; not counting this as a 1/2 PR because of ~1100 feet net elevation loss)
Short-Term Running Goals: -Qualify for the 2024 Olympic marathon trials Long-Term Running Goals: -Run a few fast marathons. Grandma's, St. George, and Boston are on my target list. An Olympic Trials qualifier would be amazing.
-Break stroller records?
-Stay fit for a very long time. I believe what goes into making a competitive runner at age 60 is much different than age 20, just like what goes into making a good marathoner differs from a good sprinter. I hope that by taking care of my body, I can be very fast for my age as I get older.
Personal: I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I served a mission in Rome, Italy from 2015 to 2017. I eat a whole food, plant-based diet, which I believe helps my running. I like chocolate shakes on sunday nights and I will always call the Pacific northwest home. |
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| | AM: 4 miles w/ 4 strides. I thought this morning that practice would start tomorrow, so I was only planning on running once today. IR/IP/T10 Then I went to the track office and found out it was actually Wednesday, so...
PM: 5 miles.
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| | Alright, so tomorrow is actually practice. NBD just like the most important workout of my life and the first one in a year and a half where I won't be the fastest one there. That's a bit of an understatement, as there's gonna be a 28:44 10K runner there lol. So today I ran later than I would have liked in the afternoon, but I got in a solid 4 miles. Then I took a nap and tonight I'll go to bed pretty early so I can go do work tomorrow. I don't want my 896 mile summer to go to waste!!! IP/T10/IR
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| | Wow today was epic... By the time we had our "range of motion" checked (basically just another physical) it was 3:00 or so when we headed out to the track. I was under the impression the whole team was going to be there, but it was just the walk-ons! I quickly determined that there was one guy who was at my level there, a 9:20 two-miler from Wisconsin who had been doing 70 miles a week, so we agreed to switch off leading laps. The workout was 3 by 1600 meters with 4 minutes recovery. It was a blazing 90 degrees and a little windy on the home stretch, plus it was obviously 4500 feet elevation...
Anyway we went out slow in 73, and on the home stretch I took the lead and brought us through 800 in 2:25. Then the other kid came up and ran another 72 so we were at 3:37 through 1200, when I took the lead and finished first in 4:49. But everyone was with us, so I had another guy lead the second mile.
He went out in 73, and by 600 meters in, the two of us ditched them and came through 800 in 2:25 again. I want to say we ran 71 to be at 3:36 through 1200, and he led the whole way to finish us off with a 72 for a 4:48. The other guys ran 5:02 and 5:16.
The last one the other kid made me lead, so my adrenaline got to me and I took us out in 70. I motioned him to come up but he was a ways back, so I brought us through 800 in 2:23 after a 73 lap. With 600 to go he finally took the lead and we got through 1200 3:36. Then we picked it up and finished in 4:45 with a 69 last lap.
Altogether a great workout, especially considering the altitude. Coach said the two of us can keep practicing with the team, so I am stoked to have a chance to be a D1 athlete! Right now my nose is runny though like after a race. I will hopefully recover for practice at 3:00 tomorrow.
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| | First run with the team... It wasn't insanely hard and fast like you would expect from your first workout with an NCAA team, because tomorrow is a race. Some of the guys got up to 8 or 10 miles, but I ran with Tanner Raines (the other walk-on) and we turned back early with a guy who felt sick and the 800 meter runners. This week I'm going to get in hardly any mileage at all! Oh well, hopefully I'll get into a new routine next week. We did about 5.5 miles at 6:30 pace. Then we went on the track and did 4 strides. Tanner said we should shoot to break 20 minutes for the 6K tomorrow. That sounds like a good goal to me. I hope we can be good training partners. I bet reguardless of who wins tomorrow, it'll be close. IR/IP
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| | Today sucked major... I knew It was gonna be tough to turn around from the workout Wednesday and race today but I sucked hard core today. I ran 21:08 for the 6K, which was a brutal race. You actually lose elevation during the run but the first half the race is just running in grass loops and it felt awful. My teammates didn't beat me that bad, but the best ones were just doing a tempo run/ easier race. I don't feel like I deserve to be taken seriously after a race like that. Hopefully better things will come tomorrow.
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| | First college long run in the books. 15.5 miles at 6:40 pace. It wasn't that bad, but I heard that they normally run in the low 6 minute range on the way out and in the high 5s on the way back. I was just as tired coming off a hard day yesterday as anyone else, but I doubt I could do that! IR/ IP/ T10
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