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Check out this website for effort based mile splits based on the elevation change:

http://www.racesmartpacebands.com/PaceBands2.php?raceid=19

Your weather forecast looks spot on.  I haven't done Big Cottonwood, but since they changed the course (again) this year, nobody has done this specific route.

Miles 15-22.5 are flat/rollers.  Save yourself for this stretch.  It is pretty simple to fly down the canyon 1-2 minutes faster than your normal pace due to the downhill.  If you do, you'll pay for it in the end with trashed legs and no fuel.  Make the canyon miles seem relaxed and easy.   

Good luck on Saturday.  I hope you have a great race.  Maybe we'll run into each other.

Thank you for your reply, but as I clicked the link, I saw only 3 options and none of them were related with the combination of running and cycling.

I'm guessing this won't ever be changed because if you don't run on Sunday, it doesn't matter

+1 - This has been bugging me a bit this past couple weeks. Even if we don't have the option to choose which day the training week starts, the graph and text view should agree with each other. I would prefer to have the option to chose when the weeks starts, but I'll take what I can get.   

Katie, just looking at August it looks like you've already been running almost all of your miles around your BQ pace.  I see an entire 20-miler at a slightly faster than the pace you need to qualify.  I think it's in the bag.  If I was in your shoes, I'd just keep the mileage up as you've been doing (consistency is key), and maybe add some LT pace stuff, once every week or two.  So a slow warmup jog, then maybe a 20-30 minute stretch in the middle of the run, where you run faster than usual -- at your estimated 1-hour pace, instead of at marathon pace.

I think the most important thing at this point will be to get a good taper (most folks start tapering off the mileage 2 weeks out) and then run a smart race -- make and stick to a pacing plan for the race and don't get carried away in the first half like I always do.  Good luck!

This is great!  I just plastered it all over my Facebook. 

Asked the same question not to long ago.
This was Sasha's reply:

"Go to http://fastrunningblog.com/change_template.php
It is not 100% fool-proof, so be careful - do just one conversion. "

Nice short piece on Sasha from the Running Times.

http://www.runnersworld.com/masters-profiles/the-croc-runner#.U_1HqOi7J-w.twitter

I'll be doing my third Utah marathon in two weeks at Big Cottonwood, and figured somebody on FRB has run it and might have some tips. I've done TOU and St. George, so I know about downhill races, trashing your quads, etc. Thinking more about pacing, etc., and possibly weather (looks like maybe high 30s at the start, possibly high 60s at the finish).