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Salt Lake City,UT,United States

Member Since:

Sep 14, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

52 marathons, Overall winner 15 times, PR 2:20:25 at St. George 2013, Kona Ironman 2002, Zero DNF

2016 Races

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Bike Lifetime Miles: 8003.27
Elliptical Lifetime Miles: 1295.72
Stairmaster Lifetime Miles: 3252.63
Rowing Machine Lifetime Miles: 335.05
Swimming Lifetime Miles: 14.97
Treadmill Lifetime Miles: 1111.92
Saucony Kinvara 2 Grey Lifetime Miles: 994.29
Saucony Kinvara 2 Blue Lifetime Miles: 528.18
Salomon SpeedCross III Lifetime Miles: 263.03
La Sportiva Vertical K Lifetime Miles: 78.50
Nike LunaRacer +3 Lifetime Miles: 129.20
Nike LunarLaunch Lifetime Miles: 319.30
Nike Pegasus 31 Light Blue Lifetime Miles: 640.75
Altra Lone Peak 2.5 Lifetime Miles: 99.50
Nike LunaRacer V3 Camo Lifetime Miles: 76.02
New Balance 890v4 Lifetime Miles: 41.25
Nike Pegasus 33 Lifetime Miles: 12.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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30 minutes on stationary bike then some hip exercises, stretches, and hot tub. To my relief it doesn't appear that any major damage was done yesterday.  My hamstrings are more sore than anything else while my quads and calves feel surprisingly good. Chaffing is inevitable but skin heals fast.

 

For fun I charted my average marathon times (excluding some trail races) by year since my first in 2000. Then I plotted the polynomial trend line and excel magically gave me the trend line equation.  According to the trend I should hit the OTQ sometime in 2014 and break the WR in 2019. :)  Unfortunately age and human genetics are working against me so this line really needs to be logarithmic. For now I like the look of this line better.

y = -6E-05x2 - 0.0004x + 0.116

x is the year and y predicts the time.

 

Comments
From Andrea on Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 18:04:05 from 67.182.215.126

Wow, that improvement curve is awesome!

From Jake K on Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 18:04:37 from 67.182.215.126

So basically the trend is project a sub 2:20 in the next 1-2 years, which I think is absolutely in the cards for you.

Unless you take up bowling full time.

From prlman on Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 18:16:28 from 67.172.234.159

Dont listen to Jake You could totally kill it on the bowling circuit while continuing the improvement trend with your running :) Just dont get MUNSONED

From JPark on Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 23:02:33 from 174.52.34.169

That's graph gives a clear perspective on how consistently you've been improving over time. Extremely good race yesterday, BTW. Glad to see that bodily damage from the race was minimal. I'm excited to see what you'll do at Ogden.

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