A Balance-Happy New Year

January 08, 2009

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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

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

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

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Well I spoke too soon. At about 2am in the morning I woke up getting sick. Then about every hour thereafter. At 6am when I was supposed to have already been in to work I started thinking about not going in. This would be my first sick day in a decade. By 8:30am Sandra told me to go back to sleep and she took Kaitlyn to school. I didn't wake up again until about 12:30pm. I went into work because he had a visiting speaker coming this afternoon but by about 3:30pm I was done and just packed up and went back home without going to the talk... I sure hope this passes quickly. It isn't even funny how weak my body has been the last few weeks, between not running, throwing out my back, a cold, and now a stomach flu I'm convinced I'm falling apart... Let's see what tomorrow brings.

Night Sleep Time: 5.00	Nap Time: 4.00	Total Sleep Time: 9.00

Comments

From Jon on Nov 06, 2008 at 21:34:39

Ouch. Sorry you aren't feeling well. Get better soon.

From Adam RW on Nov 06, 2008 at 22:05:18

I've started to doubt if I should post. I hate being such a downer. At least yesterday went well. The good news is that if I get all this "bad" stuff out of my system next year will have to be great!

From Phoenix on Nov 06, 2008 at 22:28:03

Sleep is priority number one for restoring a ravage immune system. I missed the talk too but heard it was great.

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