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Location:

Seattle,WA,

Member Since:

Dec 30, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

2019: 10:29 2 mile, 16:33 5k, 27:14 8k, 55:50 15K, 1:16:04 HM

Post Mayan Apocalypse PRs:

200 31.13 (2016, ATC all comers)

400 69.96 (2015, ATC all comers)

800 2:19 (2016, ATC all comers)

Mile 4:58 (2017, ATC all comers) 

3000 9:34 (2017, ATC all comers)

2mile 10:29 (2019, CNW Grand Prix)

5000 16:33.6 (2019, CNW all comers)

5k 16:50 (2018, Green Lake Gobble)

8k 27:14 (2019, Beat the Bridge)

10K 35:16 (2017, Eastside Beltline)

15K 55:10 (2018, Magnuson Park Memorial Day)

10-mile 60:29 (2017, Atlanta 10 mile)

HM 1:16:04 (2019, Lake Sammamish Half)

30K 2:01:56 (2014, Striders WRC 30K)

Mar 2:50:07 (2013, Sojo Marathon)

 

Fiddy "Classic" Accomplishments (before I forget)

2:03 800, 4:11 1500, 9:47 3200, 15:26 5000, 32:30 10000, 1:11:15 HM (unaided), 2:32 marathon (Boston)

Seattle Half Marathon '08-'11: 2nd (1:13), 4th (1:11), 5th (1:14), 2nd (1:13)

2nd MI half 2010 (1:11)

10th Seattle RNR 2009 (2:35)

97th Overall @ Boston 2010 (2:32)

2011 3rd Place @ Des News (2:35) and Top of Utah (2:33)

I once beat 14 year-old Connor Mantz (2011 Utah Valley Half 1:11) and 16 year-old Ben Saarel (2011 Flat as a pancake 16:23 in the f-ing snow)

2011 Salt Lake Half 1st place (1:14), Capitol Half 1st place (1:14), Provo City 4th place (1:16, unaided)

2011 Ragnar Ultra 1st place Wasatch Back Relay

7th place SLC half 2009 (1:11)

2009 Fremont 5k 16:00, 2010 Dart Challenge 16:05, 2011 Draper Days 16:02

2009 Running of the Leopards 15:03, aided

2009 Striders 10mile 1st place (58 mins)

2007 3rd place SCIAC 5k 15:26

2006 D3XC nationals, 184th (of 280)

Short-Term Running Goals:

5/18 Bart the Brodge

6/9 RicknRail Murothin

Long-Term Running Goals:

get busy living or get busy dying

Personal:

Crop rotation in the 14th century became considerably more widespread after John.

 

 

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85.00
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19.00

I ran around the island with Quinn, then I added on a tempo run afterwards.

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12.20

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13.20

Ran around the island feeling much better than previously. I've been having some hip/hamstring problems that are kind of preventing me from doing workouts right now. Today was a big improvement.

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11.00

I ran in the mercer slough today and barely had any problems with my hip. I've not been keeping track of my pace which is dumb. But I'm not dogging it on my runs.

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9.20

My last run of the year. My leg felt pretty good today despite a fast pace. I didn't have to stop once to stretch it out. Incredibly I ran almost exactly the same number as miles as last year. However, I got there in a much different way!

Back in January of 2009 I was rolling. I did two races in one day on the 11th,winning the second (a ten mile trail race) in a course record. Two days later I hurt my foot and barely ran for the rest of the month. I raced my way back into shape in Febuary, and in March I kind of "exploded" at the Ogden 10miler (first place) and the running of the leopards (15:03 while limping at the end). Then I had an uneven April. I completely fell apart at the Striders half marathon,before having my best race ever two weeks later at the Salt Lake City Half. Then I dropped out of the striders 30k with Tendonitis.

In May I trained ridiculously hard for the marathon and almost ran myself into the ground. I tapered pretty agressively and ran a nice PR at the Seattle Rock n Roll at the end of June. I burst into tears when I was done, ahh memories.

My next race was mid July, 10 miles at Cougar mountain. This race completely destroyed me as I still wasn't recovered from the marathon. I was limping around for a while and trained sparsely until the beginning of August when I got swine flu the day after feeling some PF pain for the first time.

I ran some fairly unspectacular times in the fall. But I could tell from my workouts that I was going to run a decent half despite everything. I then managed to get 4th at the Seattle half in a new PR despite a tough course and tough conditions.

I had other racing plans for this winter, but I put it all on hold to allow myself to "get right".

The end result: 4 race wins:

PRs at every distance from 12K to Marathon and an aided 15:03 5k.

If every year is like 2009 I can't complain, but what I really want is to win a competitive race. It seems that all my race wins have been races where I've led from the start and never been challenged. It feels good to win those races, but the races where you have to battle with someone else are more fun.

Goals for the upcoming year.

1. Run in Boston like I did in Seattle (that will mean well under 2:30 I think)

2. Be competitive at shorter distances of the summer. (sub 16 at Heart of Holladay for one thing.)

3. Win the seattle half marathon and break 70mins this time!

4. Run 4000 miles.

5. At the year healthy.


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13.10

Ok, kicking off the new year with a bang here.

Just ran around the Island in 1:19:44 today. (it's a pretty hilly half marathon). I had some weird aches and pains in my legs so I started out slowly running only 20:34 for the first 3.2 miles. (I have weird markers here on mercer Island). I then ran 59:11 for the next 9.9 miles (5:59 pace). Given the hills this was the equivalent of 5:46 pace. This was all depite a punishing headwind for the last 4 miles and some driving rain. In fact I picked up the pace a little at the end despite the lousy conditions. I felt like I definitely could have kept this pace going for quite a bit more!

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7.30

Easy day. I had a few aches and pains to begin with.

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