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SLC,UT,

Member Since:

Apr 28, 2011

Gender:

Male

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Other

Running Accomplishments:

PR Table and Notable Races

Marathon:
2:21:12 (Chicago); 2:20:41 (CIM)

Half Marathon: 1:05:45 (Long Beach)
10K: 30:03 (Portland)

All race results:
2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016

Personal:

   

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AM - 20 mile long run at Jeremy Ranch w/ Nate, Josh, and Rob. Double out & back. Averaged 7:00 pace. There were more dead snakes than usual.

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AM - 7 miles. 

PM - 7 miles + 8 x 100m strides.

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AM - 8 miles. 15 x 1 minute fartlek (1 min easy). Averaged 5:12 pace on the efforts. Some were uphill, and I'm not throwing my faith in Garmin paces, but still... this was really slow. Essentially one minute efforts at marathon pace. Jogged home and decided it was time to throw in the towel on the spring season (ie. don't go to Duluth). 

PM - 1.5 miles w/ Andrea.

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AM - 1 mile w/ Andrea.

Saucony and Runner's World teamed up with Brian Vernor to make a documentary called Finding Strong - A journey to uncover the transformative power of running. I had a chance to watch it already... it's very good! So block off 20 minutes later and check it out.

Online release is this afternoon, here.

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AM - 5 miles.

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AM - 6 miles.

Got bloodwork results back this morning: Hematocrit, Hemoglobin, Ferritin at all-time lows.

Not surprising based on how I was running. Those variables aren't the sole cause, but they tell part of the story of the past six weeks - along with lack of confidence, mental fatigue, work stress, drastic (unnecessary) change in training, lackluster nutrition, etc... I went past the tipping point and blew up. All those things really can add up.

In any case, I decided earlier this week to take a break from training for a while. We weighed the pros and cons of another race this spring, but ultimately couldn't find a reason why traveling to a very competitive race when I know I'm not anywhere near my best would help me turn things back around. Instead I'll take a (longer) break now. I'm not setting any timelines, but I hope to be fit enough in time for some of the local summer races and use those as a springboard to a breakthrough fall marathon season.

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Lazy Saturday.

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