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Location:

Riverton,UT,

Member Since:

May 06, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:


PR Marathon

2:51:33 (St. George 2009)

3:01:00 (St. George 2008)

3:09:52 (St. George 2007)

3:24:48 (St. George 2006)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Improve training. Get serious, lose weight.

Improve speed.


Long-Term Running Goals:

Lifetime fitness, including running.

 

Personal:

Married with 4 kids. I live in Riverton and work as an attorney downtown in Salt Lake City.

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159.003.000.000.00162.00
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How to ruin New Years:


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10 at 8.  Still need to heal up, AND I have been terrible at doing my specific exercises given me by Dr. T.

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4.000.000.000.004.00

One hour strike.


4 at 8:00. 

Always time to ponder.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.000.000.000.003.00

3 at 8:00.

One hour step interval, killer plyos.


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3.501.000.000.004.50

15 minutes elliptical.

One hour barbell strength.

1 at 8:00, 1 at 7:30, 1 at 6:30.

I've really got to use my imagination
To think of good reasons
To keep on keepin' on, like Gladys says.


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I've been gone too long, I know.  Life and work have been busy, was getting ready for an administrative trial which just resolved.


Self-serve drink fountain, guide.  Necessary?  We need to know which 32oz soda pairs best with each burger?  Is this needed information?  More importantly, is this accurate information? Who got to choose these pairings.  Personally, if I'm eating a BK Quad Stacker, something that leaves me constipated just from typing, I would still wash it down with a Diet Coke, not Dr. Pepper.  Does this mean I have an unsophisticated pallet? 

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Still easing back with the soleus tendonitis.  7 at 8:30, random incline.

30 minutes arc trainer.


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120 minutes on the elliptical.

Watched Star Trek, time went quickly.

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40 minutes elliptical.

5 at 8:30.


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One hour strike class.

 

3 at 8:00.

I got a new hairdo.


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10 minutes elliptical.

One hour step interval, again killer plyos cause I want to look good.


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One hour barbell strength. 3 at 8:30. Still some stiffness and soreness.

 

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Yes, 130 Minutes of elliptical.


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2 at 8:00.

One hour step interval, killer intervals still.

10 minutes elliptical.


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I didn't know that blowing in her face is the secret..

10 minutes elliptical.  Still too much soreness on my leg, I will start to ice it better than before.

1 hour barbell strength class.

Good timing:


p.m. 4.5 at 8:00.

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Perhaps I need to start smoking to "maintain that modern, ever-youthful figure."

 

p.m. 65 minutes elliptical

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7 at 7:25.

1 at 6:50.

Still nursing the tendons, but I need to get back at it so I can be efficient again, like Disney.

 

Good luck to all running Painters.

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7at 8:00, 1% incline.  I need to get better, having lost a lot of fitness while nursing my tendon.

More Disney efficiency.

p.m. 3 at 8:00, 1% incline.

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7 at 8:00, 1% incline.

 

p.m. 90 minutes elliptical. 

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1 at 8:00.

One hour strike class.

4 at 8:00, random incline.

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3 at 7:00, 1 at 6:40, all at -3% decline.

One hour step interval class, in which I looked good today.



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2 at 6:58, 1.5 at 6:30, all at -3% decline.

One hour barbell strength class.

2 at 8:30, random incline.

Got dressed up for work today.


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I posted this on the forum, but wanted everyone to weigh in.  I believe one thing which distinguishes well run marathons is a well organized starting location.  In addition to plenty of port-a-potties, (I know this is semi-graphic) don't you think a marathon would benefit greatly from having at least one of those tented portable urinals so that men just wishing to urinate can quickly get in line for the urinal which moves remarkably well when nobody has to stop take care of other business. This would also help prevent the last minute going anywhere frenzy and would speed up the port-a-potty lines for the women if there are fewer men having to stand in them. 


Usually found at public events, portable urinal blocks provide fast and cost effective facilities for male use. These units are ideal for larger events where queuing for standard units can become a problem. Units are fitted with side screens as standard for extra privacy.

 


But why stop there?  This lead to another epiphany, for what its worth, although it may be difficult to enforce, wouldn't it be convenient if a number of the port-a-potties were designated for urination only?   I know I could better cope with standing in line if knew I was in a line that would not stall, thereby eliminating much of the the aggravation of wondering whether I had picked a "slow" line and guessing who in front of me was going to take forever.  (Come on, who hasn't been aggravated by this, admit it.) 


Wouldn't it be great knowing you were in line where this was enforced?


 

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Got to College Station, TX last night.  Nice small airport.  I told the cabbie, 60 something year-old talkative woman, to take me to the Hampton Inn and gave her the address.  She proceeded to take me on a nice little ride to the hotel.  I paid her, got out and went in for my reservation.  New, friendly girl at the counter was very confused.  Manager, Ron, came over and said with a pleasant smile, "well that's because his reservation is for the other Hampton Inn."  I would have glady stayed at that hotel, but the deposition I'm involved in today is at the other one.  Well, Ron just said, I'll drive you over to the other one, which he did.  The other Hampton where I ended up staying was very nice, but it was quite isolated.  The closest food establishment to it was a Mexican restaurant a little ways away, but I didn't want to walk even that far in the rain storm.  So I ended up ordering a pizza, and at the whole dang thing.  So much for a run last night.

This morning, I ran on treadmill at the hotel in College Station.  I'm basing the distance on time and effort.  I run often enough on treadmills to have a pretty good feel when a treadmill's calibration is way off.  90 minutes later the treadmill indicated I had run 13, but there was no way I had run that far, so Ill just log an easy 10.

 

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Only 60 minutes of elliptical.

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90 minutes of elliptical, then one mile at 8:30, 1% incline.

 

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