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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Member Since:

Sep 25, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

All running accomplishments are Post Teenage Years:

17:06 5K--Murray 2014

16:58 5K (aided)--Running of the Leopards 2010

34:41--10K Deseret News 2018 (aided)

1:16--(aided) Hobble Creek Half 2009

2:43--St. George Marathon 2012

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 2:50 Ogden Marathon

Sub 17:00 at Draper 5K

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 2:40 Marathon

 

Personal:

Married to Elizabeth (she got me running in 2003). We have three boys, Lucas (12) , Sam (8) and Ollie (5).

Many years ago, I read that the AVERAGE male is capable of a 2:40 marathon.  I decided to test that theory.  I began running in 2003 with Top of Utah as my first marathon (4:24).  I need 3 more minutes.

"Life is short...running makes it seem longer."--Baron Hansen

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Tue, Sep 25, 2012
Total Distance
14.50

AM: 10.5 miles.  4 x 1 mile intervals with the group in Sugar House park.  Nice to run in the rain!

PM: 4.0 miles.  Gym for core.

My Little Experiment:
For the last few weeks I've been researching nitrate supplementation.  There are a handful of studies out about the benefits of nitrate (not nitrite) loading (300-450 mg) with many Olympic athletes trying it in London with the offer of increase performance .  Since I'm not thrilled about pill supplements, red beets offer some of the highest levels obtainable in vegetables--thus I began my search from some sort of pre-made juice full of red beets to "load" on before the St. George Marathon. 

Odawalla makes a Carrot Beet Ginger drink with 1/1/4 Beets in a 12 oz. container--that's about 5 oz. of red beet juice with the carrots adding a small amount of nitrate.  So, that's x3 a day of 12 oz. Odawalla drink beginning next Sunday (6 days of nitrate loading).  This may be bogus, but at the very least the added vegetables are healthy!  Comments?

Here's some quick info:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B2p-LuMQBE&feature=related


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yo0cSeruTI


Comments
From jsh on Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 08:52:10 from 63.253.43.114

Interested to hear the results of your test. Good luck at STG!

From Jake K on Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 08:58:29 from 155.100.226.191

Sweat Science had a few posts on this topic earlier this summer. It seems interesting and there is some pretty valid science behind the concept.

I'm interested to see how this goes too. And if it works, somehow I'll have to convince pepsi to make a beet-infused mountain dew.

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