Road back from FAT!!!!!

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Location:

Ogden,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jul 22, 2013

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs:

800: 1:52.23 (Track @ University of Utah)

1500: 3:44.52 (Track @ University of Stanford)

Mile: 4:03.01 @ Sea Level 4:04.67 in SLC

Steeplechase: 8:38.03 @ NCAA Championships (All-American)

8k: 23:57 Big Sky Conference Cross-Country in Portland

10k: 30:40 Regional Cross-Country in Ft Collins

1/2 Marathon: 1:09:34 Snow Canyon Half

Marathon: 2:36:40 Ogden Marathon 2014

Short-Term Running Goals:

Well I'm back. No real goals for the rest of 2016

sub 2:30 Marathon in 2017

Half Marathon PR in 2017

Long-Term Running Goals:

PR in all distances 5k and up. Run both road and trail races. Slowly build up my mileage (SLOWLY!!!!!!!) back up to 90-100 miles a week when my body is ready. Cut my weight back to 155 lbs (currently 165 lbs)

Personal:

Grew up in Colorado. Married to former Weber State runner Kayla Blackford and have a son Perrin born June 2016. Family of 2 cats and a dog in our quaint home on the Ogden Bench. Disc golf enthusist. Love camping and back packing. Snowshoeing in the winter. Love a good local beer after a long run

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Sat, Jan 04, 2014

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.36	6.00	0.00	0.00	18.36

Today was a tester run to see if I was going to do the St George Half or not. We got maybe an inch of snow up here last night so was unsure what the pace was going to be today. Started easy but by the second mile we were at 6:30 and by the 4th mile we were running 6:10. We held that pace until mile 9 which was 5:50 then I maintained 5:45 through 14 miles. Benny Van B decided he was feeling good and started to push the pace. So I was dropped runng 5:40s the last two miles soundly. I wanted to ensure I didn't push it too hard and reinjure the calf. 6:30 pace on the way back in. Feeling very good about going out and just using the St George Half as a 13 mile tempo run as I am recovering from the calf problem. See everybody down there!

Black Miles: 18.36

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Trevor Baker on Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 12:55:32 from 174.27.217.74

Good to see that the calf is calming down a bit! Good luck in St. George. Going to be a fast 2014 for you.

From Dave Olson on Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 13:09:53 from 98.202.58.72

Thanks Trevor, I really hope so. I hope you have a good year with school and what training you can get in!

From RileyCook on Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 13:26:49 from 73.52.134.194

Not much fitness loss at all. All that time you spent crosstraining paid off, despite how badly it sucked at the time. You looked great this morning. Nice work.

From AngieB on Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 13:43:40 from 65.130.69.125

Glad your back at it and that your able to run st George half.

From Dave Olson on Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 19:21:12 from 98.202.58.72

Thanks everyone. Yeah big thanks to Kayla 'cause she made me eat healthy which helped too.

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