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Member Since:

Feb 18, 2015

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Marathon: 4:13:10 (Utah Valley Marathon, June of 2013, 13 years old)

Half-Marathon: 1:26 (St George half, January of 2015)

5k: 16:10 (region junior year)

3200: 10:07 (split from region xc junior year lol)

uphill 1.5: 8:18 (summer 2016)

1600: 4:22.44 (region track junior year)

800: 1:58.6 (Orem tiger trials junior year)

400: 53.31 (Lehi/lp dual junior year)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Work up to comfortably running 60-70 miles/week

Take recovery when I need recovery

Maintain a love for running

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run for the love of running

Work in the positive instead of the negative, aka a mindset of getting ahead and exceeding expectations instead of making excuses and trying to make up for losses

Treat my body with respect

 

 

 

Personal:

I returned from serving a full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in early April 2020.

-Currently studying Exercise Science at BYU, hoping to pursue a career in physical therapy or a similar profession studying/working with the human body.

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Bare Feet Lifetime Miles: 90.40
Brooks Mach 14 Lifetime Miles: 97.98
Nike Victory 3 Lifetime Miles: 12.25
Saucony Triumph 18 Lifetime Miles: 252.10
Altra Timp 2 Lifetime Miles: 93.00
Altra Rivera Lifetime Miles: 91.40
Saucony Endorphin Pro Lifetime Miles: 69.29
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
11.580.000.000.000.000.000.0011.58

Alrighty. A quick introduction to Jacob's Ladder/Lone Peak. We gained 5,416 feet in  5.86 miles. Mile 3 has 1,554 feet of gain. In the last .86, you have some pretty sketchy scrambling up to the peak, like it's seriously steep and legitimately dangerous. Also, the "hike" has an "HC" classification, which is: HC climb - "Hors Categorie" - (a French term for above category) climbs are the hardest rating/score given to any climb. All climb scores are based on distance, grade/elevation change, and maximum elevation. The combination of these factors drives all final climb categories and there is no subjective analysis used in the final scoring of any climb score. HC climbs will traditionally be very long (over 10 miles), very steep (average grades above 8 to 10%), or very high (above 11,000 feet) but again some extremely steep or long climbs could alone qualify it as an HC rated climb. 

We wanted the FKT (fastest known time), which is just under 90 minutes. Since we weren't anticipating taking forever, we didn't bring any water and we had just a couple gu's.

We  got going, and the first couple miles went by pretty smoothly and I felt pretty strong, alternating between powerhiking in steep spots and running in runable spots. 546 and 722 feet for those miles. Then mile 3 came. I was still feeling fairly strong but it's simply not runable so we powerhiked it. 1554 feet. 668 and 774 feet for miles 4 and 5, we hit some insanely beautiful views and meadows. Somewhere in mile 5 we lost the trail, and ended up climbing up the rock face to try to get to the peak. the last .86 had 1,025 feet of gain. On the way down we ran into a couple people and asked for water, which luckily they had because we were all hurting as far as water goes. I barely kept my sanity.

This run/hike/whatever you want to call it was an insane experience and although we didn't get the FKT, it was still very worth it. Now I gotta rehydrate and rest...

Shoutout to Gill and Parker for being my buddies, my last week in Utah has been a good one.

Nike Pegasus 34 Miles: 11.58
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From watson on Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 19:48:20 from 71.195.232.221

what losers... didn't get the record... JUST KIDDING!!! hah that sounds like quite the adventure; way to go for even trying (i wouldn't)!

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