http://www.heartraterunner.com A geek's migration from a desk to the road. Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:14:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Location: Ogden, UT Website: http://www.ogdenmarathon.com/ This will be my first marathon! http://www.heartraterunner.com/2008/01/03/ogden-marathon/ Ragnar Relay on the Wasatch Back - Logan to Park City - 178 Miles Location: Logan, UT Date: June 20-21 Website: http://www.ragnarrelay.com This is a 12 person team event. http://www.heartraterunner.com/2008/01/03/ragnar-relay/ Kahtoola Wasatch Winter Bigfoot Festival 5k & 50k (doing the 5k) This is a snowshoeing race! Location: Midway, UT Time: 8:00 AM Website: http://jbozung.host.elfon.com/bigfootmaster.htm http://www.heartraterunner.com/2008/01/03/bigfoot-festival/ Wow! It's been since September since I last blogged here - Sheesh! A big part of that is that I've been extremely heavily involved with some new developments at my company that I started a year and a half ago, the other part is that once it got really ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2008/01/03/new-year-new-goals-sorta/ Location: Park City, UT Time: 10:00 AM Website: http://sports-am.com/events/index572.htm My brother-in-law, Josh, will be doing this with me! http://www.heartraterunner.com/2008/01/03/rail-trail-5k-snowshoe-stomp/ I've actually been running lately, but not blogging it! You can see from the workout list on the side that i've been actually pounding some miles but not logging them here. I need to do a lot better at my running consistency though. This weekend my brother-in-law ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2007/09/17/great-run-today-2/ Sheesh. It seems that every time I start making really good progress, I end up getting into a situation where I don't feel like I have time to run. Adria says I'm an idiot - and she's right. So, This morning I went for a quick run ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2007/08/14/getting-back-into-itagain/ I ran on Monday last week - and that's it. It was a crazy busy week and I worked for about 120 hours of it, never a good time to run. So this week I'm going at it anew and hereby swear to run every day. :) ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2007/07/23/well-that-week-was-a-waste/ I've been so busy with work (trying to get a release out the door) and investor meetings that I haven't been able to run the last two days. It's very frustrating because I was on such a roll! I'm going running in the morning, and if I feel ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2007/07/19/eating-salmon/ The Heart Rate Training methods that I use are based on the original work of Arthur Lydiard. My coach, Andrew Seeley, is an expert in the science and practice behind Lydiards methods. This page contains links to materials that talk about or cover Heart Rate Training: The official Arthur ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2007/07/16/heart-rate-training-resources/ I started running because of my wife, Adria. She first started running in late 2006 and just would not shutup about it! Finally, in early 2007 I caved and started running with her. The main reason I started out was that I somehow got the Marathon bug. ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2007/07/16/my-running-history/ Adria has been really really sick from dehydration for the last 3 days so I've been running solo. I'm really not sure what it is, but I've been feeling frisky/over-zealous/fantastic on my runs the last couple days. On both runs I met my training requirements - and just ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2007/07/16/saturday-and-monday-run-updates/ One of my favorite things to do is go exploring in the incredible mountains we live next to. So, when I recently found a very secluded spot in the foothills with miles of dirt roads spiderwebbing all over the place (it's next to a power station and there are ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2007/07/13/great-run-today/ Today was one of the worst runs I've had in a while. I'm not sure why, but my right leg (calf and quad) muscles were really tight and sore. I was doing 35 minutes at 150 HR which I haven't been too vigilant with lately. Adria and ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2007/07/12/rough-run-today/ Welcome to my running blog! I've been meaning to put this up for a while and just got around to it last night. I recently started running with my wife, who has been running for a while, and have adopted a training method called Heart Rate Training. ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2007/07/11/getting-started/ When I first started running earlier this year, I was hurting myself - a lot. I wasn't really aware of it in the sense that I acknowledged where my pain was coming from, I mean I obviously knew I was in pain, but I didn't blame running - I ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2007/07/10/heart-rate-training/ My name is Phil Burns, on the net I go by Phil801. If you google phil801, you'll find everything you could possibly want to know about me. I'm just your typical Geek/Farmer/Mountain Man/runner with 8 kids! I created this blog to keep my running blogging seperate from my ... http://www.heartraterunner.com/2007/07/10/about/