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January 2011

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Logan,UT,United States

Member Since:

Apr 08, 2005

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Former Course Record Holder (it was a good run while it lasted...)

Logan Peak Trail Race

Completely addicted to trail running

 

 

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2016 Race Schedule

TBD...

 

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Who knows?

 

 

 

 

Personal:

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Microspikes Lifetime Miles: 408.50
PI EMotion Trail N1 Lifetime Miles: 357.00
MT1010SA Lifetime Miles: 120.50
Rapa Nui 2 Lifetime Miles: 305.50
Altra Olympus Lifetime Miles: 555.80
PI Emotion Trail N2 Lifetime Miles: 312.50
PI Emotion Trail M2 Lifetime Miles: 328.50
2015 Trail Miles Lifetime Miles: 2047.50
2015 Road Miles Lifetime Miles: 490.00
2015 Mtn Bike Miles Lifetime Miles: 58.00
Altra Impulse 1.0 Lifetime Miles: 46.00
Altra Lone Peak 2.5 Lifetime Miles: 242.00
Altra Paradigm (blue) Lifetime Miles: 102.00
LP 3.0 Tester Lifetime Miles: 64.50
Altra One2 Lifetime Miles: 14.00
Altra Paradigm 2.0 Lifetime Miles: 92.00
Altra LP NS HT Lifetime Miles: 95.00
Altra Torin 2.5 Red Lifetime Miles: 7.00
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222.500.00222.50
2011 Road Miles Miles: 170.25Launch Blue #1 Miles: 112.50Cumulus 11 White Miles: 70.00Cascadia 5 Miles: 13.002011 Trail Miles Miles: 32.75Brooks Launch #2 Miles: 16.002011 Treadmill Miles Miles: 6.00Fireblade Miles: 6.00
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5 cold and snowy miles in the 800's.  It was early and sure quiet out.  All the smart folk were still sleeping.  I did sign up for the Pocatello 50 today.  I am excited for that!

I wrote a year in review summary here

2011 Road Miles Miles: 5.00
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AM: 4 easy in 0 degrees.  Learned yesterday that sitting for church meetings really tightens the hammy causing strain on the tendons.  Guess I had better stop going.

PM: 4 more and things were really tight during and after.  

Launch Blue #1 Miles: 8.002011 Road Miles Miles: 8.00
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PW

Cumulus 11 White Miles: 4.002011 Road Miles Miles: 4.00
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Easy 5

Still not much progress.  Leg sore after 3 miles or so every day.

Cumulus 11 White Miles: 5.002011 Road Miles Miles: 5.00
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Planet Walk 4

Leg felt good today.

Went to the Jazz game last night.  Poor choice of which game to see.  Quite a pathetic result.

Launch Blue #1 Miles: 4.002011 Road Miles Miles: 4.00
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Picked up the microspikes and headed out to the river trail.  The trail was nice and packed until the single track then it got a bit lumpy.  Great weather as I got to see the sunrise while at Spring Hollow before dropping back into the soupy cache valley.  Leg got sore especially on the downhills.  Still not better, but slowly improving.  

T- 1:17:40 (9:43)  900' vert

* Weekly summary 34 miles 1000' vert (4 hours 46 mins running time)

Cascadia 5 Miles: 8.002011 Trail Miles Miles: 8.00
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*** 2010 Year in Review ***

2010 will forever be known (to me) as the birth of trail running.  I began the year in the infancy stages of trail running experience but by the end I would like to say that I am now a teenager.  A know it all and constantly bragging about my exploits.  Hopefully, (for everyone else’s sake) I can now move on to the glory years of my 20’s and 30’s and leave that awkward teenage stage behind.
The year began wonderfully with my highest mileage January on the books.  I fought through the nasty Logan inversion and logged some great base mileage.  
February brought Jon, Paul and I together for an epic pacing/racing experience at the Rocky Raccoon 100 mile race.  Against all odds, Jon was able to run his first 100 mile race without actually any running as training.  He even broke the record for the most potty stops of all time within 24 hours.  A normal person would have been in the ER.  I logged my slowest 20 miles of my life with jon at the tail end of that race.  How we remained friends after that is a mystery.
In March I ran my first official 50K.  I made some major rookie mistakes and sure paid the price.  Ouch, that one hurt.  I still want revenge on that course.   
April was packed full of miles with lots of focus on vertical and getting ready for next months big 50 mile race.  Jon and I even did a 50K in training in virtually the same time as my race last month.  
May was the epic Pocatello 50 Miler or should I say 50K as the blizzard shut down the race at mile 33.  I watched jon nearly freeze to death.  Good times!  I heard that the race was cancelled 6 miles from where I was to stop so I kicked up the effort and “finished” in a great position against a solid field.  I am heading back in 2011 for more punishment.  That is one race I will never forget.
In June, my favorite race Logan Peak 28 miler was held and for me was a chance to strip Jon of his 2 year winning streak and course record.  It was a battle and since I won, I am happy.  Joe put in a solid trail race debut and nearly took the win himself.  I love that race and will hopefully be able to defend my self proclaimed title of “King of Logan Peak”.  
July was a month of some serious running.  Jon and I ran the final 30 miles of the Bear 100 course and man, it was a bear.  I also took a trip to Yellowstone and took advantage of the Lion Head Mountain and explored new trails.  53 miles in 3 days with 10k’ vertical. The next saturday, I became the course record holder of the N.U.T.S trail Half Marathon.  I also did the Tony Grove to the bottom of Green Canyon run that I have been dreaming about for years.  Unfortunately, Jon was not there to run with me and will never forgive for running it without him.  In fact, he decided to quit his job just so he could run for a month+ exclusively on trails.  I am pretty sure he did that so he could beat me at El Vaquero loco next month and reclaim the title of biggest trail running geek of Logan.  The last day of July (highest mileage month of the year) marked the toughest race of my life.  The Speedgoat 50K.  It was unnecessarily hard and making a wrong turn made it 2 miles harder.  Sick race!  12K’ vertical.  Never again....probably.
August was filled with glorious training runs with Jon and Joe.  Stump Hollow, Tony Grove to Logan River Aid via steam hollow (bear 100 course recon),  Right Hand Fork Maughn Hollow to Cottonwood loop, Deer Fence, River trail, Wellsvilles ridge traverse, Beirdneau Peak to Mt. Elmer to Mt. Jardine to Green Canyon, and Right Hand Fork to Tony Grove and back to Temple Fork.  All serious runs, but the cherry on top was El vaquero loco, a 50K trail race that winds through beautiful mountains outside Afton WY.  That morning I saw the most gorgeous scenery I have ever seen while running.  The race turned out decent as well with Jon beating me by a good 5 mins, but me holding onto the title of “fastest trail runner of the street” by a mere 5 seconds.  
September was the last month of crazy trail running as I capped off my season with a 4th place finish at Mid Mountain Marathon in Park City.  Mid month I did some serious running while marking the course for the Bear 100.  Which leads me to my favorite event of 2010.  
The Bear 100.  Jon and I had been preparing for this race for a long time.  Although I wasn’t actually running the race, I was more excited for it than Jon.  I was so happy to watch him achieve his long time goals.  I got to run about a third of the race with him and enjoy the 100+ miles of course recon with him beforehand.  An amazing experience.
The Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim in October turned out to be the neatest trail run of my life.  It lived up to all my wild expectations.  So many memories from this one to summarize.  So, I wont.  I will merely refer to my Oct 11 entry in my running blog.    October ended with Joe and I hitting some great high country trails before the snow flew.  
November held some good trails runs, but the main event of the month turned out to be the Thanksgiving day 5K turkey trot.  Whatever inspired me to run a short road race again after all that time in the mountains is beyond me.  The race turned out well enough (3rd place overall and and course PR), but it also affected my 6+ weeks of running.  During that race, I somehow managed to bugger up my knee/tendons/muscles/who know exactly and mess me up good.  I am still working on healing from that issue and hope to be back on the trails again real soon.  
In all, it was an epic year with so many great memories that will be tough to top.  First step, get healthy then get out and find some more trails to explore.
* Stats

  • 3035 Miles (58.4 miles a week ave)
  • ~264,000 Feet Vertical Ascent (5000+ feet per week ave)
  • 2 course records
  • 58 13+ Mile runs
  • 52 15+ Mile runs
  • 33 18+ Mile runs
  • 25 20+ Mile runs
  • 12 25+ Mile runs
  • 6  30+ Mile runs


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Providence River Heights Loop

Great to be back on an old favorite.  Leg felt pretty good.  My fitness, not so much.

T- 60:00 (7:30) 200' vert

Launch Blue #1 Miles: 8.002011 Road Miles Miles: 8.00
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8 tired and slow miles on 400W route.  Uneventful.  Leg still improving.

Cumulus 11 White Miles: 8.002011 Road Miles Miles: 8.00
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6 miles on the treadmill.  It was time for a hill workout.  I did 1 mile at 6% then a mile at 0% repeated 3 times.

T- 52:00 (8:40) 950' Vert

PM: Basketball for an hour

Brooks Launch #2 Miles: 6.002011 Treadmill Miles Miles: 6.00
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Providence Hills Loop

I guess if I can survive playing basketball and racquetball in the same week and not have the knee thing flare up worse, than things are improving.  Decent overall run.  Downhill doesn't feel too good, but uphill is fine. 

T- 66 min 500' vert

Cumulus 11 White Miles: 8.502011 Road Miles Miles: 8.50
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5 miles easy on snow covered roads and sidewalks.  Followed by shoveling.

Cascadia 5 Miles: 5.002011 Road Miles Miles: 5.00
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Long Run - 

Well, at least it was the longest run I have done for 2 months. It was great to put in a solid effort not only this run, but this week.  I still feel less than 100%, but the knee is handling the increase in mileage pretty well.  I will try and bump it up to 60 miles next week.  

House to Green Canyon via USU. Super slick out as the rain/sleet was freezing on the roads.  Nice and toasty 32 degrees though.  I felt pretty tired the final 4 miles today, I have definitely lost some serious fitness. Better get at it.

T- 1:50 (7:35) 14.5 miles 600' vert

** Weekly summary 50 miles 2250' vert (6 hours 32 mins running time)

Launch Blue #1 Miles: 14.502011 Road Miles Miles: 14.50
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Providence Star

45 degrees and the 1/2 mile of trail was either pure mud or ice.  Kind of sketchy.

T-1:19:30 (7:57) 750' vert

Cumulus 11 White Miles: 10.002011 Trail Miles Miles: 0.502011 Road Miles Miles: 9.50
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House to Dry Canyon.  Trail was an icy mess, but I didn't have time to venture up it anyways.  

T- 1:15:50  (7:35) 750' vert

Launch Blue #1 Miles: 10.002011 Trail Miles Miles: 0.252011 Road Miles Miles: 9.75
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8 very easy on the 400W route.  

I got a massage for an hour last night and the timing was perfect.  Yesterday, my hammy and calf were locked up good.  She did a great job loosening it up.  Unfortunately, it tightened up again this morning and the massage pulled on my alleged tear so that it was pretty unhappy today.  Hopefully tomorrow things mellow out a bit. Oh, but I still feel the massage was beneficial.

Cumulus 11 White Miles: 8.002011 Road Miles Miles: 8.00
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Providence Star

Medium effort and happily I felt much better than yesterday.  

T- 1:14:30 (7:27) 750' vert

Launch Blue #1 Miles: 10.002011 Trail Miles Miles: 0.502011 Road Miles Miles: 9.50
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Landfill loop very easy

Cumulus 11 White Miles: 6.002011 Road Miles Miles: 6.00
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Long Run

House to Providence Star (5 miles) then along deer fence to Dry Canyon and then .5 mile up the canyon.  Deer Fence had a fresh dusting of snow over a mix of ice and dirt.  The footing was actually pretty decent.  Dry Canyon was much icier and lumpier.  I am pleased that I was able to maintain a decent pace on this hilly terrain.  Slowly and surely and I coming back.

T-2:07:25 (7:58) 1500' vert

Weekly summary- 60 Miles, 3750' vertical, 475 Mins (7' 55")

Next week I will run basically the same thing, but will increase the long run and possibly increase the intensity on the harder days a bit.

Launch Blue #1 Miles: 16.002011 Trail Miles Miles: 6.502011 Road Miles Miles: 9.50
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Providence Star

Medium Effort - Felt Decent for a Monday

T-1:13:45 (7:23) 750' vert

Launch Blue #1 Miles: 10.002011 Trail Miles Miles: 0.502011 Road Miles Miles: 9.50
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Providence Hills Loop nice and easy.  Not that I had much a choice in the matter.  Got it done just as the snow started to fall.

T-1:08:00 (8:00) 500' vert

Cumulus 11 White Miles: 8.50
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Providence Millville hills loop (Clockwise)

Some faster, some not so much.  Pretty sluggish all around.

T- 1:20:30 (7:19) 600' vert

Launch Blue #1 Miles: 11.002011 Road Miles Miles: 11.00
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Deer Fence Providence Canyon to Dry and back.  Trail had about 2 inches of snow.  Just enough to make it slippery.  I saw elk, deer, a dead deer, a dog, a woman, more deer, and heard an owl. Almost hit a deer driving home.

T-54:52 (9:09) 600' vert

Fireblade Miles: 6.002011 Trail Miles Miles: 6.00
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Easy 7

I got pulled over by a Sheriff again today (during my run).  Luckily I didn't run shirtless and carry a child with me on my run today.  Or I would have fit the description of the suspect and been shot on sight.

Cumulus 11 White Miles: 7.002011 Road Miles Miles: 7.00
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Long Run

Today I ran up to First Dam via Sumac Drive and was graced by the presence of Joe when I arrived at First Dam.  It was a long anticipated reunion and was a very nice change from the lonely winter runs.  We ran up the river trail (I stopped and put on my microspikes) and stopped at about a mile past Spring Hollow.  The trail was pretty packed down low, but got pretty fluffy and soft at the top.  The spikes did great.  We turned around and I want back home the way I came and Joe hung with me for a bit to loop back to his place.  A super nice long run to get the body ready for a beating in 3 weeks.  I am happy to have slipped in a sub 7 min mile in there too.  Wow, better watch out....

T-2:45:00 (7:51) 1150' Vert

**Weekly summary 63.5 miles, 3600' Vert 498 min (8'18")

Launch Blue #1 Miles: 21.002011 Trail Miles Miles: 10.002011 Road Miles Miles: 11.00
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Providence Star -

Medium to Hard Effort today.  I woke up ready to roll so I went with it.  I was surprised by the first 2 miles at 7 min pace.  Figured it would be a good day.  It was until an ugly face plant happened coming down off the trail.  My headlamp was still using batteries from The Bear 100 and they need to be changed.  Today confirms it.  I totally missed the huge rock in the middle of the trail.  My gloves saved me.

T- 1:10:40 (7:04) 750' vert (38:00 (7:36) up, 32:40 (6:32) down)

Brooks Launch #2 Miles: 10.002011 Trail Miles Miles: 0.502011 Road Miles Miles: 9.50
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2011 Road Miles Miles: 170.25Launch Blue #1 Miles: 112.50Cumulus 11 White Miles: 70.00Cascadia 5 Miles: 13.002011 Trail Miles Miles: 32.75Brooks Launch #2 Miles: 16.002011 Treadmill Miles Miles: 6.00Fireblade Miles: 6.00
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