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February 2015

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Location:

St. George,UT,USA

Member Since:

Apr 03, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

NCAA Champ

Running Accomplishments:

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Cross Country- Individual/team conference champion; qualify for NCAA nationals individually or as a team

Indoor Track- Individual/team conference champion; 

4:05 (mile); 8:05 (3000)

Outdoor Track- Qualify for NCAA nationals in the steeplechase;

3:45 (1500); 8:40 (3k steeple); 14:00 (5k)

Long-Term Running Goals:

See how long my knees hold up after collegiate running 

Personal:

Grew up in St. George, UT where I ran at Desert Hills High School from 2012-2015. I spent the next 2 years in Rancagua, Chile as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 

Senior and member of the men's track and cross country teams at Utah Valley University. President/Founder of Mongoose Elite.

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Adidas Adios 4 Lifetime Miles: 112.20
Adidas Avanti (white) Lifetime Miles: 26.24
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Adidas Adios Pro Lifetime Miles: 19.57
Hoka Speedgoat 4 Lifetime Miles: 51.01
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
158.000.000.000.00158.00
Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 31 Miles: 33.00Nike Zoom Wildhorse Miles: 51.50Adidas Adizero Boston 5 Miles: 31.00Nike LunaRacer 3 Miles: 41.50
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Didn't do the workout because my calve was bugging pretty bad. It's felt super tight since I raced on Saturday. Sucks to just jog around the track and watch the team do the workout, but I don't want to push through it and do something that ruins my last season.

Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 31 Miles: 5.00
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8 behind the school, calve wasn't feeling too bad for the first half, but it tightened up pretty good the last couple miles. Super fun run though. Lots of rolling out and stretching tonight, hopefully I feel good enough to do the workout tomorrow. 

Nike Zoom Wildhorse Miles: 8.00
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Did 5 miles easy before my massage. 

Adidas Adizero Boston 5 Miles: 5.00
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Calve felt a lot better today on our Kenyan run. The massage loosened things up pretty well. Still a little sore but much better.

Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 31 Miles: 4.00
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Felt good today for my first track workout. A bunch of 200s with a 1000 in the middle. Pretty easy workout, our goal times weren't too fast.

Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 31 Miles: 5.50
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3 in the morning. First morning run for a while. Felt good.

Mile repeats with some 300m finishes in the afternoon. The miles were pretty quick so that was good. Weights after. Good stuff today. About 6.5 total I think.

Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 31 Miles: 6.50Adidas Adizero Boston 5 Miles: 3.00
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Unified Studies trip during school, so I was gone for the whole school day which was sick. We went to Zion and hiked Angels Landing. First time hiking it so that was pretty cool. Got back just in time to drive over to Santa Clara for our #trailruntuesday. We ran up to the Cove Wash trailhead and did the Black Bush loop, then extended out on Precipice and Sidewinder for 10 miles total. Good run, tired legs!!!

Nike Zoom Wildhorse Miles: 10.00
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3 miles in the morning. Just a very regular morning.

Workout on the track in the afternoon. Kind of a weird workout, I have mixed feelings about it. Good push though. My legs felt pretty trashed from the past couple days. Honestly have no idea what the total mileage was for this afternoon, I'm guessing with the warm up and cool down it was around 7?

Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 31 Miles: 3.00Adidas Adizero Boston 5 Miles: 7.00
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4 miles for our Kenyan run in the afternoon. Wore the new shoes today to break them in on an easy run. I will test their speed in tomorrow's workout.

Nike LunaRacer 3 Miles: 4.00
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Killer workout today on Webb Hill, very warm and wasn't able to get water until half way through the cool down! We originally planned for a track workout, but there was a soccer tournament going on at the high school so we had to move our workout to the hill (I was actually relieved a little, I wasn't too excited to go back to the track for the third time this week). The original workout was 3x400, 3x800, 4x200, but instead we did 3x1:30, 3x.5 mile, 4x:40. Hardest workout I've done for a long time I think. The recovery was especially hard because it was all running downhill, so my breathing recovered pretty well but my legs didn't quite as much. Felt really good on the 1:30s, then the .5 miles were a lot tougher and tested my endurance a lot more, and finally the :40s were nasty. Pushed 'em real hard and wasn't sure I'd make it back down the hill after the last one. Man I hate soccer.1.5 3 1 3.5

Nike LunaRacer 3 Miles: 9.00
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Got out around noon for 8 miles. Started from my house and looped around behind the ridge. A touch warm but near perfect temps today. Good stuff.

Nike Zoom Wildhorse Miles: 8.00
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Left today for my official visit at UVU. I was planning on running up north before we started doing stuff, but we didn't get out on time so I didn't have time for a run before. Ended up doing 3 easy on the treadmill at 10 at night to get at least some mileage in for the day. 

Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 31 Miles: 3.00
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Ran 6 this morning with Trey Trusty from Westlake, a little chilly up in Provo and finished up my visit with UVU. We toured the campus and got to check out all the facilities. It's a pretty sweet campus and the coaches were really cool. Wanted to get another run in tonight but didn't have much time. It's been pretty hectic trying to get runs in the past couple days so I'm glad to be back in a regular schedule.

Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 31 Miles: 6.00
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3 in the morning. Good stuff with the usual crew.

5 easy in the afternoon out toward Sunriver. Felt pretty good, strides afterwards. Glad to be back running with the team for the first time since last Friday. 

Adidas Adizero Boston 5 Miles: 5.00Nike LunaRacer 3 Miles: 3.00
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3 miles in the am. Niiiiiiice.

Track workout in the afternoon. We did 4x1600m repeats and 3x300m finishes. Pretty killer workout, I was totally drained afterwards. The 1600s were good but tough, especially the last one. 300s were pretty tough too. Really pushed the first and second ones, and pretty much just tried to survive on the last one. Good workout, definitely going to make me better. Around 8.5 total for the afternoon.

Adidas Adizero Boston 5 Miles: 3.00Nike LunaRacer 3 Miles: 8.50
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Easy 4 Kenyan run in the afternoon. Woke up this morning and my nostrils felt like they were burning and throat was pretty constricted like it was hard to get down a glass of water at the start. Things got a little better after breakfast but still felt pretty sluggish throughout the day. I hate getting sick. I feel like I've done pretty much everything I can not to, but I guess I wasn't able to hold it off with everyone around me being sick. Hopefully it'll just be a really short thing.

Adidas Adizero Boston 5 Miles: 4.00
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Felt a little better when I woke up this morning, still a little sluggish though. Had a bowl of lucky charms and a glass of water and that seemed to give me a fairly adequate amount of energy. Met out at Warner Valley for a sort of progression/tempo run with some of the team. We just did an out and back on the usual dirt road, slightly uphill for the first 2 miles, then slightly downhill for the next 1.5. First half was pretty chill, progressed from about 6:30-6:10. At the turn around, Coach told us to stay at that pace and then push the last 2 miles. The last 2 we were cruising, 5:43 and 5:17 for those miles. Overall, I felt okay, better than yesterday's easy run, but it was still a little tougher to breath and I had a bunch of gunk in my nose and throat. Pretty good push though, I need to work on my endurance and being able to push from more than a quarter mile out! :P

Nike Zoom Wildhorse Miles: 7.50
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Workout in the afternoon. 10x400s, supposed to be 12 but I was still feeling a little sick and didn't want to make it worse so I threw out the last 2. 

Nike LunaRacer 3 Miles: 6.00
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Trail run Tuesday. 8 miles out on the Arizona Strip.

Nike Zoom Wildhorse Miles: 8.00
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Mile time trial. 2 mile warm up, strides, 4x300s afterwards, and a mile cool down to go along with it. I felt pretty flat. Not great, not terrible though. Got to meet a bunch of the immortals that Ultraspire sponsors. They were cool, pretty fun to meet them. 

Nike LunaRacer 3 Miles: 4.00
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Easy 4 mile Kenyan run.

Adidas Adizero Boston 5 Miles: 4.00
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Pyramid workout on the track today. 4,8,12,16 and back down. Felt flat for pretty much everything after the first 400, which was pretty much the only one I was able to hit my time on. All out on the last 400, and I was able to run better than I though I would so that was good. I don't know what the heck's up with me lately. Wasn't able to get a lot of sleep this week because of  a bunch of schoolwork teachers are throwing in at the end of the quarter, so that might be it. Didn't get in a single morning practice in this week because of it, but I'll be able to turn it around next week and hopefully get back to where I should be. 

Nike LunaRacer 3 Miles: 7.00
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Woke up late so I wasn't able to make it out to Little Black Mtn with the team, but Josh called me up to see if I'd run yet, and we went out to a trail off of Red Hills Parkway. Ended up getting rained, sleeted, hailed, and snowed on all in one run. Pretty crazy, and cold. A lot of fun though. Thawed out in the hot tub afterwards. 

Nike Zoom Wildhorse Miles: 10.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
158.000.000.000.00158.00
Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 31 Miles: 33.00Nike Zoom Wildhorse Miles: 51.50Adidas Adizero Boston 5 Miles: 31.00Nike LunaRacer 3 Miles: 41.50
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