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Location:

Orem,Ut,

Member Since:

Apr 29, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

31 Ultra Finishes

Personal Records:
100 M:  17:52*   Pony Express (2011)
100K:   11:06     Antelope Island (2010) (faster 100k on PET 100)
50 M:    7:23      Pony Express 50 (2013)
26.2:     3:00:03  Big Cottonwood Marathon (Sept 2013)
13.1:     1:27:22 St. George (Jan. 2014)
* Top 100, 100-Mile Times (2011) (#80), UltraRunning Magazine Year in Review
Race Director: Thanksgiving Point Half Marathon

Short-Term Running Goals:

Attempting the Rocky Mountain Slam:

  • Bighorn 100 (June) 
  • Hardrock 100 (July)
  • Wasatch 100 (Sept)
  • The Bear 100 (Sept)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Goals:

  • Rocky Mountain Slam
  • FINISH Hardrock (wasn't pretty but got a finish)
  • Wasatch < 25 hrs.

 

Personal:

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Thanksgiving Point: Director of Food Services & Retail / Race Director Thanksgiving Point Half Marathon

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Brooks Cascadia 7 (1) Lifetime Miles: 571.21
Brooks Cascadia 7 (2) Lifetime Miles: 489.01
Other (Old) Lifetime Miles: 45.00
Brooks Cascadia 7 (3) Lifetime Miles: 658.26
Brooks Cascadia 7 (4) Lifetime Miles: 561.85
PureFlow 2 Lifetime Miles: 374.50
Brooks Cascadia 7 (5) Lifetime Miles: 394.01
Brooks Launch Lifetime Miles: 389.42
Brooks Pure Grit 2 Lifetime Miles: 241.21
Cascadia 8 (red) Lifetime Miles: 232.99
Cascadia 8 (Black) Lifetime Miles: 325.96
Cascadia 8 (Black II) Lifetime Miles: 339.05
Brooks Glycerin 11 Lifetime Miles: 342.90
New Balance 1400 Lifetime Miles: 175.77
Brooks Cascadia 9 Yellow & Red (1) Lifetime Miles: 421.20
Altra One2 (squared) Lifetime Miles: 6.00
Brooks Pure Flow (red) Lifetime Miles: 188.97
Lone Peak 2 (prototype-yellow) Lifetime Miles: 29.80
Brooks Cascadia (9) Black/Red Lifetime Miles: 231.10
Brooks Pure Flow 2 (red) Lifetime Miles: 78.10
Brooks Cascadia (9) Black/Red II Lifetime Miles: 342.06
Pure Grit 3 (Red) Lifetime Miles: 235.36
Total Distance
51.30
PureFlow 2 Miles: 34.00Brooks Cascadia 7 (5) Miles: 17.30
Total Distance
8.00

8 slowish miles on the treadmill. Legs are coming back around.

PureFlow 2 Miles: 8.00
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Total Distance
10.00

6 miles at 730 mm, might be ready to test the legs again today on a faster tempo. Pushed it too hard last week after Red Hot and paid for it. Need to remember to allow some recovery after the pounding my legs took on the slickrock.

Enjoying reruns of Andy Griffith and Mash on TV. The older Mash with Macintyer, Col. Blake, Radar are much better that the BJ Honeycutt, Col. Potter, Clinger version--ablbeit much less PC. I doubt we'd see a show these days with a bunch of Dr's getting loaded in their tent at the hand of their homemade still and then running off to surgery...not to mention the "use" or role of the nurses on the show. Nonetheless, still a great show.

Bottom-line, I need to start running outside.

PureFlow 2 Miles: 10.00
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Total Distance
8.00

Tempo run... 1.5 mile warm-up, 6:48, 6:44, 6:39, 6:35, 6:15, 1.5 mile cool-down.

PureFlow 2 Miles: 8.00
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Total Distance
8.00

Speedwork on the treadmill. 1.5 mile warm-up followed by 7 x 800 intervals at 5:58 (last one at 5:27) with .25 mile rests at 8:30mm in-between, 1.5 mile cool-down.

PureFlow 2 Miles: 8.00
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Total Distance
6.00

Good to be outdoors again. 5.5 on the golf course, .5 on the JRPT. Still quite a bit of snow on the golf course, 10+ inches in spots. Wet, sloppy snow but great to out. Several hundred geese out in the west fields.

Found a 4 point mile deer antler shed next to the golf trail--I was very excited about that.

Brooks Cascadia 7 (5) Miles: 6.00
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Total Distance
11.30

Silver Lake AF Canyon.

Third attempt at Silver Lake. First time up this winter I didn't have snowshoes and no one had been on the trail past Silver Lake Flat so I scrapped it. Second time I got a late start and halfway up ran out of sunlight and had to turn back. Today, however, I got it.

Started at Tibblefork, up the snow packed road to Silver Lake Flat (<3.5 mi).

 

Warm day, ended up in sleaveless shirt and shorts and was still warm. At the trailhead to Silver Lake I noticed no fresh tracks but a faint packed trail still visible. First mile, no problems other than punching through occasionally, dropping past my knees into the soft snow. After a mile the trail faided to one faint snowshoe track barely visible heading up, straight up the ridge rather than following the main trail just visible off to the east. This is where the fun started.

Hiking in only shorts and my Brooks Cascadias (meaning I should have had snowshoes, boots, pants and or gaiters) I headed up the ridge, more swimming than hiking, as the snow was often well past waist deep. It was difficult to stay on top and punching though every few steps meant digging oneself out and on four different occasions I lost my shoe struggling to get out and had to dig down several feet to retrieve it.

 

 The absurdity of the situation did not escape me. I had failed on two previous attempts to get to the lake and was determined to get there today, besides my belief on two separate occasions that I only needed to get over the next ridge to find it. After climbing a third steep section straight up the ridge line in waist deep snow, I made it to Silver Lake-spectacular views!

 

The sun had just dipped below the ridge and it immediately started getting cold. One positive thought though was that at least it would be easier going down as I had already created the post-holes--nope! As the snow began to freeze the sharp edges of the deep holes created on the way up (you guessed it--and have probably been there) cut into my ankles, shins and even as high as my knees and thighs cutting the already tender skin raw from the hike up. As my legs would crash through and against the frozen sides, I began to leave a visible and obvious trail of blood in each hole, often sending splattered blood trails along the sides and on top of the snow.

 

 

By the time I reached the bottom, each step breaking through the crust sent incredibly sharp pains into my shins. The edges of the snow by this time felt more like glass cutting into me rather than the soft snow I experienced on the way up. I lost my shoe twice more heading down deep in the snow and had to dig it back out, emptying it each time and putting the stupid thing back on my frozen foot. For a stretch there, I began to think I might be in one of those "I shouldn't have survived," shows-- I was just waiting for a random blizzard to roll in.

Anyway, eventually made it down back to Silver Lake Flat and slowly began a run, picking up the pace, and eventually warming up the last three miles before getting back safely to my truck just before dark. What an adventure and an incredibly stupid thing. Loved every minute of it...not so much the bleeding all over the snow part but the rest was great.

 

Brooks Cascadia 7 (5) Miles: 11.30
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Total Distance
51.30
PureFlow 2 Miles: 34.00Brooks Cascadia 7 (5) Miles: 17.30
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