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Location:

Bountiful,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jan 24, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Winner of 1994 Teton Dam Half Marathon, 1:25:01.

Best Marathon: 3:23:40. (Deseret News 2006).

Completed Utah Grand Slam (2006).

Completed 8 Marathons in 1 year, the last four were each two weeks apart.

Marathons to date: 25.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay Healthy

Sub 3:15 Marathon

Train consistently

Finish in the top 10% at all races 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 3 hr marathon

Complete a 100 miler

1st Overall at any race

 

 

Personal:

Hi, my name is Matt and I love to run! I especially enjoy trail running. I am married to Susie and we have six children Connor-10, Jed-8, Jaxine-7, Evan-4, Eliza-2, and Susanna-0. Look for me at your next race, I wear the same bright yellow Twinkies shirt at all my races.

Favorite Course: Mid-Mountain Marathon, Park City, Utah

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.800.000.000.006.80

1001 miles. I finally made it into the 4 digit numbers. The miles this year have been a lot of fun, and have included a whole slew of races. One 3k, three 5k's, one 8k, two 10k's, one 10 miler, two half marathons, one 16 miler, one 17 miler, one 30k, one full marathon, one 28 miler, one 50k, and one 50 miler. Looks like I had a race in almost every distance. I am going to do at least one more 10k before the year is over. I will be running the Run to Feed the Hungry on Thanksgiving Day in Idaho Falls.

For today's run I ran the Mueller Park trail.  The was snow on most of the trail, but it was packed down all the way to Elephant Rock. I went a little slow today but still made good time considering the conditions.

Time up: 42:00  (12:21 avg)
Time down:  30:00 (8:49 avg)

Comments
From jun on Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:35:30 from 66.239.250.209

Oh, wow. Fantastic run. So cool you got to hit the trails again before the storm hit. I'm very jealous.

From Scott Wesemann on Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 18:02:28 from 66.239.250.209

I've never done that one, but would like to. If you ever need a partner let me know.

From Twinkies on Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 18:48:19 from 134.24.147.249

Scott, Mueller Park is one of my favorite trails to run. It is also very close to my house. I would like to go all the way up to Rudy's Flat sometime this winter. It would be good to have someone with me, especially if there is a mountain lion up there. Preferable someone slower than me, since I can't out run the mountain lion, I just have to outrun the person I am with. Just kidding.

I will be out of town this weekend. Perhaps a weekend in December we could get together and run it. To Elephant Rock and back is 6.8 miles. The full route to Rudy's Flat is 12.5 to 13 miles.

From Scott Wesemann on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:25:55 from 66.239.250.209

That sounds like fun. Maybe we could get Jun to join us.

From jun on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:07:42 from 66.239.250.209

I'm in. Let's plan it. Would we need snow shoes by then? Or can we get away with trail shoes and gators?

From Twinkies on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:41:21 from 134.24.147.249

I use trail shoes all winter long. Even when the snow is two feet deep. Snow shoes would be better, but I am too cheap to buy them.

From Burt on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 15:10:52 from 12.231.112.98

Congrats on the 1000! Good luck tomorrow!

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