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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,

Member Since:

Jan 25, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

SLTC Winter Series 5K - 18:51

SLTC Winter Series 10K - 37:55

SLTC Winter Series 15K - 57:52

Buffalo Run 50K - 4:32:37

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run my first marathon under 3 hours.

Stop running marathons.

Start running ultras.

Stop getting blisters.

Start looking even sexier.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Do what I set out to do and then move on to whatever comes next.

Personal:

I've been a competitive cyclist for years. Last year, after earning my category 1 upgrade and racing in the Tour of Utah, I realized I had plateaued as a cyclist--not that I wouldn't continue to improve, but that I wouldn't break through to a new level. So, I started looking for a new challenge.

I thought that challenge would be endurance mountain biking, but I got married in early January and a couple of weeks later I had entered the SLTC Winter Training Series with my wife. A couple of weeks after that I read Born to Run and decided that I'd like to run ultras. So I signed up for a couple of 50Ks to get started.

I have a tendency to stretch too far. Sometimes that works out for me.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Nike Lunarlite Racer Lifetime Miles: 26.95
Brooks Cascadia 4 Lifetime Miles: 93.70
Brooks Launch Lifetime Miles: 74.84
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.260.000.000.005.26

I bought my iPod Shuffle two years ago, and I still think it's one of the greatest inventions ever. Every time I rode my bike I clipped my Shuffle to the left side of my jersey, just above my hip. That way, I could easily reach the buttons and the headphone cable ran cleanly from the Shuffle to the center of my body and up to my ears.

When I started running, I realized that the Shuffle would bounce to much when I clipped it to my shirt, so I started clipping it to my waistband on the left side of my shorts. It was an adequate solution, but it always annoyed me that the headphone cable came out of the Shuffle away from the center of my body and therefore had to double back across the Shuffle before reaching my ears.

It took me until today to realize that the solution is to clip my Shuffle to the right side of my shorts instead of the left. Imagine that.

I had an appointment that interfered with running this morning and the wind messed up the air this evening, so I settled for some easy miles on the treadmill. My legs feel much better than they did yesterday, and I feel pretty good overall. I'm tempted to hit the trails tomorrow, but I'll probably give myself one more day to recover, although I do think I'll up the mileage tomorrow.

Brooks Launch Miles: 5.26
Weight: 166.40
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