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Location:

Lehi,UT,United States

Member Since:

Dec 03, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

5 K Finish

Running Accomplishments:

PRs

Aided

  • 5k - 14:58 (Big Cottonwood 5k 2013)
  • 10k - 32:14 (Deseret News 10k 2013)
  • Half - 1:09:07 (AF Canyon Half 2013)
  • Marathon - 2:25:22 (St. George Marathon 2013)

Unaided

  • 400m - 48s
  • 800m - 1:52.1s
  • 5k - 15:59 (Solo Track Race 2013)
  • 4M - 20:06 (Earn your turkey race 2013)
  • Half - 1:14:11 (St. George Half 2013)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Find my limits

Personal:

Married to Ashley and we have 6 children.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Mizuno Universe Lifetime Miles: 118.80
Bare Foot Lifetime Miles: 8.80
Minimus Green Lifetime Miles: 67.80
Hoka Lifetime Miles: 521.60
Type A6 Lifetime Miles: 98.00
Lunar Racer 3 Lifetime Miles: 247.30
Kinvara 4 - Blue Lifetime Miles: 344.90
Provision 2 - Green Lifetime Miles: 426.15
NB 1400v2 Lifetime Miles: 130.00
Hoka Contact 2 Lifetime Miles: 243.46
Asics Clod Hoppers Lifetime Miles: 157.55
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.300.005.000.0017.30

We had a good crew today. I met Matt, Scott, Brandon, Reed, Jodi, Chris and Steve at the soccer fields in Orem. 8 miles up to a little past Vivian park. (7:09AP).

The plan was to do some tempo on the way down. Matt and I had talked about 5, I thought I'd just play it by ear but I wanted to get some good half marathon pace work in. I felt good from the start and just went by feel.

Splits: 5:23, 5:21, 5:06, 5:05, 5:12 

I went into this with basically fresh legs. A light 3 mile tempo run on Tuesday and easy miles since. 

General Poulsen threw the hammer down on mile 5 and blew past me. He's coming back with a vengeance. Scott, on his 3rd speed work out of the week was right there. Reed and Brandon hit some fast times as well. Big fun.

Afterward I did some barefoot grass laps (1.3m) with Scott with 3x200m bursts. 

Virrata 1 Miles: 16.00Bare Foot Miles: 1.30
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Matt Poulsen on Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 21:03:38 from 98.202.242.213

Awesome run, Mike! You looked very strong and relaxed!

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