| 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: Last hard workout in Medford! Hopefully I get used to the altitude in Utah quickly... Anyway today I bumped up the rest on my mile repeats from 3 to 4 minutes and dropped the reps from 5 to 4. Unfortunately I realized that didn't make the first mile any easier, and it was actually quite harder as I tried to hit 74s so I could go sub 5:00 on all of them. Also, adding the extra minute of rest didn't do much to slow down my heart rate I think. Like a graph of exponential decay, the more rest I add, the less that additional rest matters. Anyway, the 5:00 goal made the workout harder, but it also made my times more condensed, which is something I had been hoping for the past few weeks. I ran 4:59, 4:59, 4:58, and 4:51. It could have been better than 4:57 average, but at least I made my goal. IR/IP/Strength
PM: 5 miles that felt rather easy and the time I spent went rather quickly. Hopefully this is because my body is becoming more accustomed to the workload.
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| | AM: Regular 5 mile morning run. IP/IR/T10
PM: 5 miles.
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| | AM: 4 miles. Ran out of time as I left for college this morning, and planned to get the extra mileage in later, but....
PM: 4 miles. I got back to my dorm super late, and had to come back early (just before midnight) because I didn't have my ID card yet, which would allow me into the building after hours. I need to start adjusting to college and continuing to focus on running.
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| | AM: Tempo run. I think I pushed my body pretty hard aerobically, but it felt sooo slow. One reason is the altitude change, the other is that I am in a new place and don't really have any running routes. So I waste energy thinking where to go next, turning, stopping at stoplights, etc. I did a 2 mile warm up with 5 miles tempo and a 1 mile cooldown (ran out of time).
PM: In an effort to make up for my lackluster performance earlier today, I ran 6 miles. IR/IP/T10
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| | AM: 5 miles. IR/IP/T10/Strength
PM: 5 miles.
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| | Wow, today was epic. It was my flattest long run in a while. There were definitely some hilly sections, but my recent long runs have all been on RoxyAnn of Mount Ashland, so this doesn't really compare. I wanted to give it a solid effort, and was planning on going 2 hours even though I hoped to go faster than 8 minute miles. I felt fast, but holy cow, not that fast! I did three miles where I saw mile markers, and even though it was the hilliest (up Provo canyon and back) and windiest (I am not a weather wimp- it was blowing hard) section, I was running miles in 6:20 pace! I did not see that coming, and definitely doubted the accuracy of the first one, but started accepting that maybe I am better than I thought I was after the next two miles confirmed the speed. I ended up running 100 minutes, which is enough for 15 miles at 6:40 pace, which is very realistic seeing as the rest of the run was easier (until the end, when I just wanted to be done). The fact that I didn't run that long bothered me a little, but Spencer Gardner, one of BYU's top guys, did his 15 miles long run at 5:45 pace- if you do the math that means his long run was a meager 86 minutes. So that made me feel better. Now time to recover for Tuesday. IR/IP/T10/Strength
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