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Location:

Snoqualmie,WA,

Member Since:

Feb 24, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

2011 Boston Marathon -- 2:27 (Top 50)
2011 Steilacoom 20k -- 1:04:57 (1st)
2010 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon -- 2:26 (7th)
2010 Fall City 10k -- 31:06 (1st)
2009 Indy Mini Marathon -- 1:07:53 (7th)
2009 WWU Invitational -- 10000m (30:58)
2009 UW Indoor Meet -- 5000m (14:49)
2008 Orem Turkey Run -4 miler -- 19:55 (1st)
2008 Seafair Torchlight 8k--25:03 (3rd)
2008 Time to Fly 5k -- 15:35 (1st)
2008 Newport Marathon -- 2:22:47 (1st)
Steilacoom 15M--1:18:30 (1st)
2007 Olympic Trials -- 2:30:41 (91st)
2007 St. George --2:18:55 (3rd)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Feb 23 -- Ft Steilacoom 15M
March 23 – Ft. Steilacoom 20k
April 15 – Boston Marathon
June 8 – Sound to Narrows 12k
June 22 – Grandma’s Half Marathon (USATF Champs.)
July 7 – Run of the Mill 5k
July 27 – Torchlight 8k
September – SJJ Half (maybe)
October/November – Fall Marathon (maybe)
December – Club XC Nationals

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy

Personal:

Ran track my junior and senior years in high school and cross country my senior year. Went to BYU but did not run. Served LDS church mission to San Bernardino, CA. Started running again in April 2005. Marathon debut was St. George in 2005.

I coach the Mount Si High School Track Team (distance)

Been married for almost 17 years. My wife, Mara, and I have four kids ages 16, 14, 13 and 11.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Brooks T5 Lifetime Miles:						34.00
Ravenna Lifetime Miles:						250.00

Fri, Jan 11, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
11.50	0.00	0.00	0.00	11.50

After a sleepless red eye from Seattle to Minneapolis, I managed to get a couple of hours of rest at my parents house before heading out for a frigid run.

19 degrees at 11am with the wind chill in the low single digits. The good news is that everything stayed warm except my nose and face. I learned to appreciate running in rain and the upper 30s. Running in this stuff every day for four months would be the end of me.

I saw zero people over the entire 11.5 miles (6:38 pace). People in MN are smarter than I thought I guess. What fool would be out this cold.

My parents have a temperature guage at their house that shows the record high and record low at their house since they moved here 2.5 years ago. -19 was the low and 101 was the high. That is crazy. It reminds me of why I like Seattle so much.

Off to Green Bay first thing in the morning. Go Hawks!

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Dale on Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 17:22:25

Amen to the weather comments. Makes you appreciate the days when you get to run in cold horizontal rain and face the stiff 30 MPH wind gusts, all so you can return home afterwards where the power's been knocked out by the storm. Oh wait...I guess we get our share. And now tornadoes??? Like earthquakes and volcanoes and windstorms weren't enough???

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