The Perils of Self Betterment

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Location:

UT,

Member Since:

Jan 17, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

yearly mileage totals (actual running miles, not crosstraining etc)

2008 - 1,317

2009 - 2,654

2010 - 2,578

2011 - 2,618

2012 - 3,083 (ran everyday this year. PR's in half and full marathons, at age 48!)

2013 - 1,177

2014 - 1,716

2015 - 1,060

2016 - 951

2017 - 786

2018 - 1,058

2019 - 1,211

2020 - 1010

2021 - 1064.9

2022 - 1135.9

Short-Term Running Goals:

reacquaint myself with my long lost running freak, and then proceed to get my running freak on

run faster

increase mileage in the Spring 

keep running

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

run

 

Personal:

born in 1964. married 25 years. one wife one dog

6 ft tall, nation wide

"Engaging in a little suffering — however self-imposed, arbitrary and contrived — before breakfast each morning tends to demand some humility and injects some marked relief into the rest of the day, making things sharper, more inspired, more immediately aware of the powerful presence of being. And that seems really worthwhile." A. Krupicka

 

"I cruised down hills, churned up hills, and floated over the asphalt, existing in a world that seemed to lack the confinements of such ubiquitous rivets as time, obligation, or pain. I knew then that this was destined to be one of those serendipitous runs for which so many of 
us strive yet so rarely achieve." J. Nevels

 

 

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Switchbacksblack Lifetime Miles: 176.50
Kinvara11(2) Lifetime Miles: 362.50
Kinvara11blue Lifetime Miles: 327.70
Rincon2 Lifetime Miles: 262.40
Spg 4’s Lifetime Miles: 135.50
Skechers Razor3 Lifetime Miles: 160.90
Rincon2(2) Lifetime Miles: 85.50
Asics Noosa14 Lifetime Miles: 73.00
Sauconyaxon2 Lifetime Miles: 73.80
Mach 4 Lifetime Miles: 34.50
Total Distance
8.50

Early lunch. Clear, 80F. One mile boardwalk loops at the nature preserve.

Miles 1-7, progression run: 9:35, 9:12, 8:58, 8:39, 8:37, 8:17, 7:56, then 1.5 mile cooldown.

8.5/1:15:55/ 8:56


Asics DS 13 Miles: 8.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From redrooster on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 15:07:56 from 129.123.3.31

sounds like a nice course, kind of like our planet walk! are you going to do the TOU half as a tuneup for the full marathon? If not I will watch for you to come in at the marathon finish in 3:26!!! That is what I am predicting you will run.

From JD on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 15:22:23 from 64.65.159.206

Ha! Redrooster, I appreciate your optimistic prediction. I'll call 3:26 my "dream" outcome of TOU! First goal is to finish, next is to break 3:45.

I forgot the TOU half is on a separate day than the full. I hadn't considered running the half, I'll probably wait until the last minute to decide whether or not to do it.

From Lysa on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 16:44:40 from 76.23.52.240

nice splits! I really like 8 milers too. We should do one sometime together except I will only do it with you if you dont slow down for me. I will just have to know the course so that I can get done on my own time and you can be sitting there waiting with an ice cold water. hmmm, that wouldve been a diffrent beverage not too long ago.

From JD on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 18:10:57 from 166.203.34.167

Hey Lysa! Ice cold is as ice cold does!

Any Saturday early works for me, just give me a day or two heads up.

From allie on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 18:24:21 from 208.110.151.113

JD - just a little plug for the TOU half: it is a GREAT way to gauge fitness and prep for the full since in runs from mile 7 to mile 20 of the marathon course.

and on that note, i just realized that you are doing TOU full. exciting! hope to meet you at that race. i totally think you can break 3:45. go for it!

From Carolyn in Colorado on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 23:55:33 from 71.229.164.25

Nice progression run. And for the record, I'm confident that you'll beat 3:45.

From JD on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:56:56 from 166.183.110.174

Allie and Carolyn - Thanks, you completely and thoroughly rock!

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