Matt's training

August 2008

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Location:

Brigham City,UT,

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Ran Cross Country in high school for a small school and qualified for state all four years.  My Senior year placing 10th.

In high school 3 mile time was consistently in the low 17 minutes 

Ogden Half Marathon 1:33:55 (May 17, 2008)

Ran Ragnar relay Leg 34 in 47:01 (2008)

Perry 5K   19:47 (July 4, 2008)

Member of the Fast Running Blog Relay team for the Northwest Passage took 2nd place over all

Brigham City Peach Days 10K  42:19 (Sept. 2008)

Top of Utah Marathon 3:34:07 (Sept 20, 2008)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

 

Run a 5K in Under 19 minutes

Stay in shape during the winter time

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Time qualify for Boston

Run a 10K in under 40 minutes

Personal:

I am a 33 year old Male.  I have been married now for over 10 years.  I have three kids, all boys.  My boys ages are 9, 7 and 2.  I have always enjoyed running and my wife is slowly being converted.   While I was going through college I didn't do much running so I am having to teach my leg how to run fast again. 

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Biked for an hour and a half.  Crosstraining I am trying stay in shape while my hips and groin is getting better.

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I am starting to think the exercise gods don't like me.  I went out for a hour and a half bike ride.  About ten minutes into my bike ride, I come to a family trying to herd three pigs down the road.  I don't want scair the pigs and cause to much problems so I wait until there is good openning to go by.  I continue my bike ride.  After about forty five minutes of hard bike riding I turn back.  By now it is getting dark.  As I am riding back it starts to get harder and harder to ride the bike.  When I get about 3/4 of a mile back to my house I am in one of the lowest gears of the bike.  I go to stand up, too push hard, and I feel the front rim hit the road.  My tire is flat.  I get off my bike and start to push my bike home.  I can't believe how hard it is just to push my bike.  I go to spin my back tire and I have a brake that is rubbing. 

The hole trip took two hours, I don't think I went very far but I am tired.  I might of gone 15 to 20 miles.    

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Went three and a half miles, but I am favoring my left leg. I will need to do some exercise to streigthen that leg.

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I did exercises to strengthen the hip musles.  Jogging in the middle and a 2 mile walk cool down.  I am hoping that I can build up the streight in my hips. 

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ran 6 miles in 50 min 33 sec.  I was trying to run without a limp.  My gate felt OK, after finishing running my legs are sore.  I am hoping the legs will recover fine that will be the test.

 

Miles on shoes  muzzuno 48.5

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Biked at least 15 miles, I fixed my bike so the brake was not rubbing and the tire didn't go flat.  I didn't have to wait for any pigs either.  (Biked for an hour)  Legs are sor I will have to be on the bike for the next two weeks. 

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I went on a 2 and a half hour bike ride.  I traveled about 45 miles, not to bad when your riding a old mountain bike.

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running again,  The leg is sore, but it is improving.  I just hope I will not have any more set backs.

 

 

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Leg felt ok, I am trying to not push it to hard.  3 miles in 25:47.  I am doing a lot of streching trying to work out the leg

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Just four miles slow.  Just trying to test out my legs.  Legs don't feel right but they feel alot better.

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I believe I ran 6 miles in 53 minutes. 

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Ran 8 miles in 74 minutes.  Legs don't feel right but they are ok.

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ran 11 miles, I am ashamed how long it took, but after a Ice bath my legs felt fine.  I think I am ready to push it harder next week.  Time 1 hour 48 minutes

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Six miles in about 52 minutes.  I am not sure how long it took me to run the 6 miles.  At about 1.7 miles I had to wait for a train to pass, so I stopped my watch.  I forgot to start the watch when I started to run again.  I started my watch at 2.5 mile.  It took me thirty minutes to run the 3.5 miles. 

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I ran 6 miles in 50:45 which is inprovement from the last few days but I have along way to go.  I ran the first two and a half files in 20 minutes, 3 miles in 23:55, and 3.5 miles in 27:50.  I was running 8 minute mile then something happened in the last two and a half miles.  It didn't feel like I slowed down but I guess I did.  I have lost some of my endurance

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Biked for an hour and 5 minutes.  Went about 15 miles.

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six miles in 47:50 my legs are starting to feel normal.  I just hope saturday goes well.  I plan on going 20 miles to prepare for the marathon

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I ran tenty miles for the first time in my live today.

I ran with a group of people from work.  The Course, we started at mile three of the top of utah marathon.  We ran up to the start.  The first three miles took about 24:30 were we ran second mile faster than the first and the third faster than the second. 

At the start we got a drink then turn around. 

I was running with two other runners at the six mile mark our time was 45 minutes. 

After getting a drink and taking some gue we continued. 

The other two runners pulled away either between mile 6 an 9 or 9 and 12.

I end up running the last 8 miles by myself. At mile 15 which was the farthest I have run so far my time was about 1:53.  Which was 4 minutes faster than I have ever before.

I ended up running the 20 miles in 2:35 I averaged a 7:45 mile. 

The last five miles I averaged a 8:24.  I wish I didn't slow down that much, but I was able complete the run without any set backs. 

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