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2011
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Member Since:

Apr 13, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

27 100 Milers (sub-24 at Wasatch and the Bear).  3:11 Marathon (2011).

Short-Term Running Goals:

Another sub-24 at Wasatch.  Sub 3:00 marathon this winter

Personal:

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68.280.0026.300.00107.96202.54
Weight: 172.06
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Race: Ogden marathon (26.3 Miles) 03:23:19
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0.000.0026.300.000.0026.30

1:39 1:44 splits, fun to see everyone.  156 AHR for the first half, 162 AHR for the second.  I needed to go out a scoche faster.  My legs were blown from an 88-mile week in the Grand Canyon the week before.  I'll take it.

Weight: 174.80
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
7.130.000.000.000.007.13

5.11 North Ogden Divide.  Easy with dog.  Then 2.02 with the family.

Weight: 173.80
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
10.160.000.000.000.0010.16

5.02 WF100 course, easy.  Then 5.14 more in the pm.

Weight: 171.00
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
0.000.000.000.0010.0810.08

1.11 on the tread, then 8.97 on the Indian Trail in Ogden Canyon. 

Weight: 171.00
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
0.000.000.000.0010.0910.09

6.5 Malan's Basin in and out. Great morning.  Left foot still sore, but really coming along.

3.59 North Ogden Divide trail after work

Weight: 169.80
Comments
From crockett on Thu, May 26, 2011 at 17:41:16 from 216.49.181.254

Look who's on the blog now. Yet another ultrarunner to pollute the minds of the road runners here.

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0.000.000.000.0010.1910.19

Weight: 170.00
Comments
From jun on Thu, May 26, 2011 at 23:59:45 from 97.126.239.12

I recognize that jersey, running form, oh, and your name. What's up Mr Lowry? Welcome to the blog. What are your plans this year, other than taking over the Ogden trails and waiting for Davy to jump from behind a tree at Wasatch?

From Hyperphil on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 00:17:16 from 67.182.237.8

Woot woot! yeah, I migrated over from Dailymile per Davy's recommendation. Just noy my crowd, but the biggest thing is, this blog is much better for data retention. One question: why no field for total climb??!! I've already pinged Sasha on that one. Plans: SP50 (heat fest), Black Hills 100, Mill creek 50k, Speedgoat 50K, Wasatch 100 (sub 24 #2), then a week later I'm on a plane to Afghanistan.

From crockett on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:06:45 from 216.49.181.254

The shoe manager on this blog is also a nice tool. Yep, keeping track of climb feet would be great. Sasha is an olympic sport runner who has stated that he doesn't believe ultrarunning is really running, so a feature like this probably isn't of interest to him. When you get back home, with all that treadmill work, we need to get you in a 24-hour run. I bet you could go over 120.

From jun on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:11:22 from 66.239.250.209

In the meantime you can use one of your 'shoes' as a means of reporting climbing. I believe Dorsimus does that. I need to start. He just titles one of his shoes "Vert" and then puts the info in there. It's a good idea really.

From crockett on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:11:30 from 216.49.181.254

BTW, Phil started way faster last year at Wasatch, passed me before we even got to the climb. I growled at him, but there were no trees. Jun paced me during a section at Wasatch a couple years ago. He is the guy who had his back turned to me, picking up some trash, and I "sprinted" away trying to drop him. Young punk still caught up.

From jun on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:14:20 from 66.239.250.209

I caught you because you were pretty dehydrated, hungry, and had 50 miles under your legs. I had 10 miles under mine and really wanted to hear more of that wonderful singing.

Phil, you should remember me, you rode in my car from the finish line back to the start in the 2009 Pony Express 50, or what you may remember as "The Pukefest 50", which you still won.

From crockett on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:16:59 from 216.49.181.254

I paced Phil for 60 miles one year at Wasatch. He was so impressed with my singing that he recommended me for MoTab. I declined the offer to try out since I only do my best singing after mile 80.

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0.000.000.000.0015.0715.07

5330' climb.  Tough day, Indian Trail all the way through from 22nd, and then up and down Malan's.  Little sore from yesterday's jaunt at Mueller.  Tomorrow will be casual.

Weight: 169.80
Comments
From jun on Sat, May 28, 2011 at 22:12:24 from 97.126.239.12

Genius! Are the trails pretty dry now? Malan's stays shady and secluded, does it also stay muddy because of that? It is a pretty rocky/porous trail, maybe that helps.

Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
9.670.000.000.000.009.67

nice jaunt up North Ogden Divide and part way up the ben Lomond trail.  this weather can kiss my patoot.  So sick of it.  2400' climb.

Weight: 172.20
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From MichelleL on Sun, May 29, 2011 at 02:04:08 from 67.41.230.92

Hey look at you. Didn't know you joined the blog. Welcome, welcome.

From Hyperphil on Sun, May 29, 2011 at 02:28:32 from 67.182.237.8

Yup. Lots better than dailymile.

Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
10.410.000.000.000.0010.41

Weight: 173.00
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13.800.000.000.000.0013.80

dreadmill

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3400' climb.  indian trail in and out

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3.010.000.000.000.003.01

North Ogden Divide

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North Ogden Divide

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Race: Squaw peak 50 (51.68 Miles) 10:33:48, Place overall: 19
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0.000.000.000.0051.6851.68

This applet is frustrating--no iPad compat.  I came, I ran, I kissed Camille and greeted Davy.  What else is there?

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From jun on Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 11:00:57 from 66.239.250.209

What else is there? Heat, hills, getting lost, snow. There's lots.

Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
6.770.000.000.000.006.77

Mueller Park

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Dread

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This is my last entry at fastrunningblog.com.  It's not because of the great people here.  At the risk of sounding grumpy, let me share with you why I am leaving.  Maybe things will improve.

1.  Input.  It doesn't work well.  There is no cut and paste feature in the applet, and there is no way to enter text on anything but a computer.  Need to have smartphone and iPad compatability.  If the blog is to survive, this must happen soon.

2.  The mileage breakdowns are too balkanized.  hill v. easy v. track.  Whaaaa?  I train for both marathons and ultras.  So, if I do a 30 mile run with less than 4000' climb in 7 hours, that is definitely an easy run, but not Easy in the sense of the blog.  But it's not a Hill run either, with so little climb.  Easy would be a lazy 4 on the BST, Hill would have at least 6000' climb.  So I have to wonder what to do.  That should not happen in a blog.  It should be fire and forget.  What about a custom field(s)?  That would solve the problem.

3.  No total climb feature.  Sorry, this is relevant today, especially with trail runs and ultras catching on.  Ignoring it is like sitting in your garage with your USATF measuring wheel and your Jim Fixx books hoping we nonconformist weirdos will all go away.  I have complained about this to DailyMile and other blogs, and they are addressing it.  Need climb.

4.  Internet Explorer issues.  Huh?  I work at a federal installation.  We can't just go and download Firefox.  Not going to happen.  Content providers need to please their users, not vice versa.

OK, that sounded more like a rant.  But it's more reflective of the fact that I had huge hopes for this site, hoping I could migrate over from DailyMile.  But DailyMile is still going to be my number one until I find a better mousetrap.  I hope that I can come back, and soon.  I have a very special relationship with a mapping software vendor where, if I were to give him four bullets like I did above, a software patch would appear in my inbox two days later.  He is thriving.  Hopefully that will happen here.

I will still stay on as a user and check on y'all once in a while.  Meantime, check out what Kelly has to offer on dailymile.com.  My handle there is Hyperphil.  Kelly has run Wasatch and the Bear and has a good thing going.

Run gently out there.

Hyperphil

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Comments
From jun on Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 14:23:25 from 66.239.250.209

You're my hero.

From crockett on Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 00:47:42 from 71.32.232.58

What a nerd. Ha, ha.

From jeffmc on Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 19:24:45 from 131.216.80.154

I just randomly stumbled upon your blog here, and while I am sure that what I am going to say won't really appease you, it may help you to see why things are how they are on the blog.

Sasha really only works on the blog in his spare time. When he had a different job he had more time to spare. Now, with a more demanding job, and 7 kids, he simply doesn't have that much time to put into the blog anymore. I do believe that he is working on some things to make the blog compatible with smartphones (but that will take a while due to reasons listed above), and the firefox thing is really nothing more than Sasha endorsing firefox because he likes it better (when I have used IE to blog it works fine). The templates have always been kind of a mess, but the only reason the template you have on your blog exists is because someone else requested it (when I joined the blog there were fewer template options, and most were more simple).

Any other changes that may come about eventually to make the blog more user friendly will be a long time coming, in part because of the situation that Sasha finds himself in (blame the bad economy for part of that one), and the blog itself is not a moneymaker for him. If this was his job, I am sure he would have a patch up and running within a day or two for major issues, but it is nothing more than a hobby for him.

This all doesn't mean that the blog shouldn't be updated, because it should. Hopefully Sasha works out the issues with templates, smartphone compatibility, etc. some day, and adds some other options/features that make the blog better. Until then, the main draw for many people to the blog is the intimacy that exists among many of its users (which based on your post it appears you recognize).

Anyhow, good luck in your running/blogging (even though it is not on the frb)!

Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
68.280.0026.300.00107.96202.54
Weight: 172.06
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