A Balance-Happy New Year

January 08, 2009

Asics Gel-2130 Men

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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Recover From Injury

Running Accomplishments:

Top 10 finishes at Salt Lake City, Top of Utah and St. Louis marathons.
Ragnar Del Sol Relay-Course Record 17 hrs 4 min (leg 7/'08)
Ragnar Wasatch Back Relay-2nd overall 17hrs 54 min (leg 9/'08)

Personal Records
Marathon 2:39 (SLC '08)
1/2 Marathon 1:12.30 (Provo River, Aided '08)
10K 34:16 (Track sea level '00)
10K 33:15 (Des 10K, Aided '08)
5K 16:44 (Track sea level '00)
5K 16:08 (Magna Classic, Aided '08)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Continue on the path to recovery. Refocus on how to maintain running as one of the many priorities in my life. Get into shape in '09 for a killer race in '10.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Break 2:30 without breaking myself.

Personal:

Married with two daughters. Wife thinks I'm crazy for doing marathons. And yes I am crazy I'm a scientist for a living...

Miles:	This week:	3.00	Month:	16.00	Year:	16.00
Asics DS-Trainer #3 Lifetime Miles:						180.00
Saucony Rides #1 Lifetime Miles:						445.00
Saucony Rides #2 Lifetime Miles:						451.50
Adidas Adistar (flats) #2 Lifetime Miles:						4.00
Saucony Rides #3 Lifetime Miles:						395.50

Tue, Nov 04, 2008

Easy Miles Marathon Pace Miles Threshold Miles VO2 Max Miles Trainer 1 Miles Trainer 2 Miles Racer Miles Total Distance

2.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.50

Miles are miles and I will take them. With the car situation I ran into work today. Door to door it is 2.5 miles. Luckily I missed the rain but I was super over dressed. I took some Aleve for my back so I can't feel my knee but the knot in my back is still there. Well I have a meeting with my boss in an hour and then another full day. One of these days I'll get to type about running again instead of this complaining about "life" stuff...

Asics DS-Trainer #2: 371 / / Asics DS-Trainer #3: 155 / / Saucony Rides #1: 445 / / Saucony Rides #2: 448 // Saucony Rides #3: 303 // Adidas Adistar (flats): 205 / / Adidas Adistar-2 (flats): 4 / /

Night Sleep Time: 6.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 6.00

Comments

From Jon on Nov 04, 2008 at 10:06:59

Sasha made the shoe calculator for use, if you want, rather than doing your shoe tracking at the bottom of you blog.

From jtshad on Nov 04, 2008 at 10:08:08

Hope the back continues to feel better and work settles down. Life certainly is throwing you a few curves (builds character, right?).

When is Sandra's due date?

From Adam RW on Nov 04, 2008 at 10:17:01

Jon, Good point. It would save me some time as well...

Jeff, The moto of my old lab was "What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger..." I think that holds true in this case as well. However, the other thing I have to learn, and I think I've mentioned it a few times here over the last month is to focus on the good things. I think you surround yourself with positive and negative attitudes and then sometimes the "stuff" piles up for better or worse. It seems like you are progressing nicely, '09 is all I can say. There are a lot of people on this blog hungry for sub-2:30 and I think our shortcomings this year are going to make next year that much more focused...

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