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Spanish Fork,UT,

Member Since:

Dec 26, 2007

Gender:

Male

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Other

Running Accomplishments:

Placed 33 in the 2008 Spudman (1500 athletes), Sub 40 min in the Speedy Spaniard.  Sub 19 in several 5Ks.  18:26 on May 26, 2008, fastest 5k in the last 10 years.

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Improve swim from 16 min 800 meter to sub 15 min  (accomplished 1/29/08, need to replicate).  Now want a sub 30min  1600m swim.  Race at over a 23 MPH bike.  Run a sub 43 min 10k on a tri leg. Ran a 42:20 at 08 Spudman.  Run a 18:30 5k 18:26, 5/26/08 MVP run, run a 38: 59 in a 10 K.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Don't get injured.  Stay in the game!!  Train for old age.

Personal:

Married to Kelly.  Have three daughters.  Professionally, I am involved with health promotions, so it is great to see people active. Coached track and cross country many years on the Jr. high level.

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Swam a timed 800 meters in a windy outdoor pool at The Dalles.

It was a 50 meter pool. I thought 50 meter pools were faster than 25 meters but this was not the case. I did a 16:30 or so. One way had a pretty good headwind. It was cold, until I got doing the laps then it was not too bad.

Comments
From Scott Zincone on Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 15:53:30

I have never swam in a 50 meter pool. With the wind were there any whitecaps ?

How about this pool - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6yHhScgxqI

From JohnA on Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 20:43:35

Wow, you could do one lap in that pool and call it a day.

There were some small waves. I did have a lot of splashing on my head so I ended up looking behind me more to breath so I did not get splashed when I breathed to the side.

A 50 meter pool is nice in that you only have half the laps to do to get your goal. The meters seem to go faster.

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