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Lehi,UT,USA

Member Since:

Apr 29, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

2009 Provo River Marathon, 4:04:38

2009 Provo Canyon Halloween 1/2 Marathon, 1:27:22

2010 Ogden Marathon, 3:04:39

2010 Deseret News Marathon, 2:51:36

2010 Provo River 1/2 Marathon 1:19:01

2010 Top of Utah Marathon 2:52:24

2010 Just Cuz 1/2 Marathon 1:17:36

2011 13.1 LA 1/2 Marathon 1:19:43

2011 Timpanogos Half 1:16:51

2011 Treadmill Marathon 2:49:26 (pr)

Short-Term Running Goals:

2:45 Boston.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Elliptical Trainer 2017 Lifetime Miles:						107.00
Treadmill 2017 Lifetime Miles:						454.20

Tue, Mar 22, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

Woke up totally planning on doing the St. Charles 12 mile run again but as I was limping down the hall I was prompted to go to the gym and take it easy. I used to feel pretty down on myself when I missed a day of running, but thanks to advice from people like Steve yesterday, and reading Ryan Hall's book I'm slowly realizing that no one is super human, but the way to appear super human is to stay injury free. One of my New Year Resolutions this year was to stay injury free, which I think even if over all fitness falls a bit is a much better strategy than trying to run a fast marathon with an injury. So there it is, I'm not going to feel bad about not getting miles on the board just to do it, that's not my primary goal.

Oh, forgot to put my workout in.. 1 hour elliptical, 20 minutes of stretching and weights.

I don't have this problem anymore, but thought it was funny since I was there about 2 years ago and I know a lot of you are probably dealing with it now.

Comments

From steve ash on Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 16:01:48 from 67.166.103.179

Good move Rob. Was Ryan Hall's book worth buying do you think?

From Rob on Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 16:23:08 from 72.254.134.157

Steve- I just bought the $10 e-book version cause I always like have reading material on my long flights. I think the book is 'OK' it's basically just his running log building up to Boston last year, with some various hints and tips thrown in here and there. It's not at all like a normal running book with training schedules and the like, which is a nice change.

From RivertonPaul on Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 16:28:15 from 67.42.27.114

Stay healthy.

From Rob on Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 16:36:58 from 72.254.134.157

I'm trying Paul. It's hard to keep balance lately, I worked over 100 hours last week, plus got really sick all while trying to train. It may be a blessing in disguise that I can't do Ogden this year, it gave me an extra 3 weeks and some wiggle room in my training.

It sure is hard to stay motivated in down time, I'm sure for you it's 1000 times worse since you've been out for... 3 months now?

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