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Member Since:

Jun 01, 2013

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Ran for SUU on their Cross Country/Track and Field teams

2015 Alta Track Athlete of the Year

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy and and build mileage

Sub 1:20 half marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running

Run the Boston Marathon at least once

Personal:

Married, we have one daughter so far. I ran for Alta high school and was trained by Rob Murphy, he is a great coach, one of the best there is. I also ran for Southern Utah University.

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Miles:This week: 7.00 Month: 51.90 Year: 326.80
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.650.000.000.000.65

I worked out for an hour at the Kaysville vasa and then went and dropped my new car off to get it's oil changed. I walked home and ran the last 5 minutes at 7:40 pace, I got to my house just as 5 minutes were up so that was nice. The physical therapist said to try and stay between 7:30 and 8:00 pace and 5-7 miles per week.

I'm also doing a couple exercises to strengthen my achilles and gluteous minimus, although I stopped altogether for a week or so because my achilles got worse. So I ran a couple times for 2-3 minutes last week, today 5 felt good. I've also been doing some swimming, I'm frustratingly slow at it. It takes me a little over half an hour to swim 3/4 of a mile. From what I understand, a mile swimming is a similar workout to 4 miles running. So basically it's like struggling to maintain a 10-11 minute mile pace. I guess I've never been a huge swimmer. And it feels good to get some sort of a aerobic workout that has little chance at bothering my achilles.

Comments
From Eugene on Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 08:14:10 from 174.223.136.128

there’s no conversion for pacing between running and swimming. you might be able to say a certain distance of swimming is equivalent to a certain distance of running in terms of calories burned, but there’s no correlation between the two in terms of pacing

From Blake Bennion on Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 08:41:21 from 172.58.79.246

Yes, all I meant to say was that I seem to be a lot worse at swimming than I am at running.

Although I've spent a lot more time running, so that isn't a surprise.

I was just kind of ballparking how slow I currently am at swimming.

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