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December 2010

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Location:

North Ogden,UT,U.S.

Member Since:

May 23, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

5K- 14:58, 10K- 31:05, 1/2- 1:06:47 Marathon- 2:23:29

3rd- Park City Marathon 2008

3rd and 4th Ogden Marathon 2010; 12'

5th, 3rd, and 7th- Utah Valley Marathon 2011;14'; 16'

9th, 3rd,11th, 8th, 5th, 8th St. George Marathon 2010, 11',13',14',15'16'

2nd- Deseret News Marathon 2015

1st- SandHollow Marathon- 2016 (CR***)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2024 POTENTIAL RACES

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

                                                                          -Helen Keller

              

 

Personal:

Married to Nikki we have 4 children. Jaerdan, Korver, Grady and Lyla McKell

Head XC/Track Coach at Weber High

Graduated from Weber State with a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Athletic Therapy.

 

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 257.46
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
113.170.007.000.00120.17
Brooks Ghost Miles: 59.30LunarEclipse Miles: 33.85Saucony Kinvara Miles: 27.02
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.300.000.000.007.30

IT'S OFFICAL!! yes I am running again!! And yes it hurts!! I forget what it feels like to be out of shape, my goodness. But, seriously just happy to be out on the roads again. Going to start picking up some miles in a couple of weeks some track workouts and tempos and with some good luck and no HAMSTRING injuries this season. I will run the Winter Circuit along with the Ogden Marathon and again try to chase that so close but still so far away sub 2:30 marathon!!

Happy Running to you all!!!

Run was through north ogden, good up and down with rolling hills in between.

Avg Pace 7:03

Brooks Ghost Miles: 7.30
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.350.000.000.007.35

I slept in this morning, so with my wife at work, and with my 2 boys. I had to sacrifice myself to the treadmill, which wasn't terribly bad. 

The goal right now is just to get my legs underneath me again. As of now running is not that fun but I hope that changes here in the next week or so.

7.35 miles in a 50 minute run.

Brooks Ghost Miles: 7.35
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.800.000.000.007.80

Nice evening run, way warm outside!! Probably could have ran long sleeve and shorts and would have been fine!!

North Ogden to Pleasant View Loop

Mostly flat with rolling hills

7.80 miles in 53 minutes

Brooks Ghost Miles: 7.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

3.05 mile warmup

5X100 meter sprints with 100 meter recovery

1 mile cooldown

total- 5 miles

wanted to do more sprints, stomach wasn't liking me much today.


LunarEclipse Miles: 5.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.350.000.000.007.35

WAY WINDY!!

man the wind was howling from the east this morning, felt like it was 10 degrees outside.

Felt good when running west though

7.35 miles

Avg Pace 7:04 min/miles

LunarEclipse Miles: 7.35
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.050.000.000.0010.05

P.M.

Nice evening run today, even though it was a little rainy it felt really nice to get outside and move the legs. The goal today was to hit under 7 min/miles for 10 miles. Legs felt good and strong.

Avg Pace was 6:55 min/miles. Feeling almost back to normal. But, I still haven't hit any track or tempos yet. Planning on taking 1 more week of distant runs only then back to hitting the track and short tempos to gett ready for the WRC 5K for the first part of February.

Brooks Ghost Miles: 10.05
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles around north ogden. Good run, I felt that it was a good push tonight. My pace was a 7:03 average but on a ton of hills so feel pretty good with the overall run.

 

LunarEclipse Miles: 8.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.220.000.000.006.22

A.M.

decided to cut my run a little short today so I ran a 10k on the treadmill. Pretty cool program, set your distance and your pace and just run.

the last mile I did some fartleks ran .25 at 5 min pace and then cut back to 6:45 pace for .25.

Getting the body for track workouts next week!!

Overall pace 6:30 min/miles

P.M

90 minutes of basketball

Saucony Kinvara Miles: 6.22
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.350.000.000.008.35

Good surprise today. I have been training at my new job and our trainer decided to let us start our Christmas weekend a little early. So that was nice because it allowed me to go on an early afternoon run in the sun!!

Legs felt pretty heavy from basketball last night and my stomach wasn't agreeing with me today also. So probably not one of my best runs.

7:15 min/miles

Brooks Ghost Miles: 8.35
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.500.000.000.008.50

So today was going to be the day I attempt my first tempo run in about a month or maybe a little longer. 

I warmed up for a little over 3 miles, then began my tempo. I officially got .75 miles into and honestly I felt great wanted to hit 5:45 pace for 3 miles. Was actually hitting 5:30 pace then the stomach thing happened I had to go to the bathroom so bad. CRAZY!! Ended up going to the bathroom twice!!

Now I will attempt to hit the tempo tomorrow!!


Saucony Kinvara Miles: 8.50
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.300.000.000.0010.30

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Had a great run today a little over 10 miles, I can tell that I am not completely back in shape quite yet. One day I have a great run, then the next I am sucking WIND literally. Hopefully in the couple of weeks I will be back to normal everyday running and a couple of workouts a week to break things up.

Weather was awesome today also a little over 40 degrees  ran with half tights, long sleeve shirt.

Avg pace 7:15 min/miles

Brooks Ghost Miles: 10.30
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.300.004.000.009.30

TRACK WORKOUT

3.30 mile warmup

4X1600 @ 82-87 pace w/ 3 min/r

Progressive workout

1-5:44

2-5:38

3-5:34

4- 5:28


2 mile cooldown


Saucony Kinvara Miles: 9.30
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.150.000.000.008.15

Boring run tonight on the treadmill. Got off work a little late and I hate running in the dark, especially in the Winter!! Its flippen fetchin COLD!!

 

Avg Pace 6:50 min/miles

Brooks Ghost Miles: 8.15
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.300.000.000.007.30

Easy run today

7.30 miles @ 6:50-55 pace.

Basketball

90 minutes on feet

LunarEclipse Miles: 7.30
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.200.003.000.009.20

TEMPO RUN

Alright so to be honest with y'all I was a little nervous to do this tempo run. I knew I could do it I just haven't ran one in so long, just have forgotten what one feels like.

warmup 3.10 

3 mile tempo @ 5:35-5:45 pace

1-5:43

2-5:37

3-5:32

cooldown 3.10

total miles 9.2

Overall went better than I thought felt like I could have done another couple miles @ pace but I have to remember it is technically January, and I don't need to over do workouts quite yet.

Saucony Kinvara Miles: 3.00LunarEclipse Miles: 6.20
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
113.170.007.000.00120.17
Brooks Ghost Miles: 59.30LunarEclipse Miles: 33.85Saucony Kinvara Miles: 27.02
Weight: 0.00
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