Hit the Dusty Trail

Week starting Sep 27, 2009

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Location:

Marriott Slaterville,UT,

Member Since:

Mar 08, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Let's see, Finally ran Boston 2004. Broke 100 miles for 24 hours in 2005. Finished the Wasatch 100 three times now. 4th place in the Across the Years 24 hour race 2007/2008

PR's:

5K - 21:03 (a long time ago), around 23:00 currently

10K - 44:??

1/2 marathon - 1:36

Marathon 3:21

50K - 5:05

50 mile - 8:59

100K - 11:37

100 mile - 22:18

24 hour - 106.65 miles

72 hours - 167.77 miles

2006 Wasatch 100 34:23

2008 Wasatch 100 32:22

2009 Wasatch 100 33:57

2009 2nd place 50-54 age group Striders Winter Training Series

Short-Term Running Goals:

Direct a successful Antelope Island Buffalo run in March 2011, Mountain View Trail Half Marathon in October, and the Antelope Island 50K/100K in November.

Tenative 2011 race and run schedule - Bonneville Shoreline Trail Marathon, Grandeur Peak fun run, Timp Trail Marathon, Pocatello 50 mile, Western States 100 mile, Vermont 100 mile, Leadville 100 mile, Wasatch 100 mile (yep, trying for the grand slam of ultrarunning), Striders Winter training series, Moab Red Hot 50K, Red Mountain 50K, Survivor Series 10K (Rockford, IL), Grand Canyon Double crossing, Zion traverse, Boise Half Ironman (my first tri). Might Run the Ogden Valley 50 mile, the Pony Express 50 mile and maybe the Chimera 100 in November. I'm a memeber of the Wasatch Speedgoat Mountain Racing Team (www.wasatchspeedgoat.com). One of my major goals is to not embarass the team with poor finishes.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay injury free and still be able to outrun kids half my age. Stay fit enough to keep up with my grandson.

Personal:

52, married for 30 years to the same wonderful woman, 2 grown kids, 1 grandson.

That's my son and I in the picture at the 2007 Buffalo Run. He's always a big help and a pretty cool kid.

I direct the Antelope Island Buffalo Run, the Mountain View Trail Half Marathon, and the Antelope Island 50K/100K, all on Antelope Island State Park. The website is www.buffalorun.org

Come on out and run it, we have a good time.

I post some of my more interesting runs at my blog www.ultrajim.blogspot.com. Check it out.

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Totals

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
63.60	0.00	2.20	0.00	65.80

Mon, Sep 28, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
13.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	13.00

Ran to work this morning after 5 days off. Took a few days off to visit with my daughter and her family and to play with my grandson. That's a much higher priority than running right at the moment. I felt kind of sluggish, but that's to be expected after taking some time off. Back to work though.

Participated in an interesting study on Friday. The person who heads up the Big Mountain aid station at Wasatch is a Psychologist. He made a call for ultrarunners to come into his clinic and do a Qualitative EEG. This is a brain scan using the skull cap with electrodes etc. Then he compares the results of your scan against what the general population is to see if there's a mental difference between ultrarunners and the rest of society. Any ultrarunner can tell you that there is a mental difference. We're all mental. Anyway, he had already scanned two other runners and noticed a similarity in their scans at certain frequencies. Two results does not make a trend so when he saw the same thing in my scan, he got excited.

There have been studies done of ultrarunners during a race, but these were physical studies, blood work, etc. To his knowleged no one has done any studies comparing brain activity. He would love to scan more ultrarunners. If you're an ultrarunner and would like to participate, let me know and I'll forward his info to you.

The run home in the afternoon was pretty uneventful. Nice afternoon. Beer at home when I got there.

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Tue, Sep 29, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
13.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	13.00

Ran in to work again this morning. Woke up at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep. Since the alarm was set for 4:50, I decided to jsut get up and catch an earlier train in. Definitely less traffic on the roads at 5am.

Had to push the run home a little bit to get tot he bank before they closed. Made it!

So far I have about 45 entries for the Mtn. View Trail half Marathon on Oct. 17th. If you're interested, the entry form is at www.buffalorun.org

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Thu, Oct 01, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
13.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	13.00

Ran to work today. Brrrrr, kind of chilly. Actually got a little bit cold on the way from the train station to work. Hot shower felt pretty good.

Run home after work pretty uneventful. Little cool.

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Fri, Oct 02, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
4.20	0.00	2.20	0.00	6.40

4 x .55 hill repeats. Need to do some work on these.

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Sat, Oct 03, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.40	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.40

Had big plans to do about 30 on the island but 1 hour of sleep the night before prevented that. Still, felt guilty for not running and decided to go for a short run on the Ogden Valley 50 course since I'll be running it in a couple weeks. I haven't run that far on roads in a long time. I was beat when I finished and it wasn't that tough. Went to bed early.

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Totals

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
63.60	0.00	2.20	0.00	65.80

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