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2010
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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
3.090.002.920.006.01

Another day at Liberty Park. I ran to and from the park, plus two laps on the cinder track. I held an easy pace to and from the park, and ran both laps at 6:12. That was supposed to be a tempo pace, but I felt pretty cooked by the end of the second lap and decided to skip the third, which makes me think that the pace was faster than tempo. I determined the pace by plugging my 15K time into one of those online pace calculators, but I should probably go more by feel. After all, I know what tempo feels like. Then again, 6:12 was my 15K pace a few weeks ago, so maybe I just had a bad morning.

Brooks Launch Miles: 6.01
Weight: 163.40
Comments
From baldnspicy on Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:03:47 from 167.164.3.140

Lookin' great! Maybe it's harder when you plan the times for tempo rather than just running it? Maybe it takes some out of you to watch/stress about whether you're hitting the marks? Just guessing...eihter way, keep it up!

From Faceless Ghost on Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 18:44:19 from 208.110.141.218

You're probably right. I know what tempo feels like, and I should run according to that, not what some online calculator says. I'd be better of using my Garmin to tell me what I've done, not what I should do.

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