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Striders Winter 5K

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Location:

Logan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Dec 15, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs after age 40:

 

5k     15:15  Running of the Leopards.

8k      22:21  Alta Death Dash

10k   33:02    Des News

Half Marathon      1:10  Timp Half

Marathon        2:32    Ogden

First solo R2R2R Bass Trails Grand Canyon 

First R2R2R Grand Canyon Toroweap Overlook

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Not be fat all year

Long-Term Running Goals:

Smell the dirt, feel the mountain, taste the wind.

Personal:

 

"Our legs are tight, our feet are flying, and we are gliding over the roll of the land. The sun is up, the air is fresh, the stone is old, and we are free and at peace. The clock has stopped because another time has taken over." C. Bowden

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Off day

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8 miles on the traedmill at the gym in the early morning

 

5 miles at night on pinecone trail

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10 easy in Milwaukee

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18.5 miles out of Brigham City.  First decent run after the Half Marathon 6:24 per mile pace.

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4 miles fast in Honeyville

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Race: Striders Winter 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:17:10, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1
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First 5K of the year.  I heard this was a hard course and it did not dissappoint!  Straight uphill start and rolling hills through the end.  Start and finish above Weber campus.  Lots of people nshowed up and it was fun to just get out and have a good time with family.  I couldn't get the girls to run since it was so cold.  They sat in the stroller and watched movies on the laptop!

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5 miles and lift at the gym in Denver

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10 nice, flat easy miles in Brigham City.

I just accepted an invitation from some friends involved in the Lost Dutchman marathon in Arizona to run with them in the race.  One week to train!

Today feels all right, maybe I can limp it through a marathon..

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5 miles and lift at the gym.

 

1 hour raquetball

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7 outside of Brigham city.

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8 miles on the treadmill at home.  Boring...

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3 miles along logan bench

 

Skiid all day!

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4 miles in Phoenix desert

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Race: Lost Dutchman Marathon (26.2 Miles) 02:42:41, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 2
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I just got invited to run this two weeks ago by the race director and felt a marathon would be a good break.  I have been training for half marathons wchich included occasional semi long runs but mostly fast Tempo runs so I was kind of curious anyway how this training would work for a marathon.

I was lucky enough to get an overnight with work in Phoenix so it kind of worked out.  It was such a pretty night I left the hotel Saturday night with a sleeping bag from the manager.  I camped out on the ground and slept like a baby until 5am.  The morning was awesome!  What a cool place to start a race.  The scenery was incredible, up at the base of the mountains in Apache Junction.  Lots of warming fires and a lot of fun.  Only 600 runners in the marathon. They seemed very serious and fit, but having a good time.

I had heard it was a hard course.  The masters record was only 2:47.  It started out downhill, kind of..with rolling hills on a dirt road for the first 8 miles or so.  I had no idea how to pace since I had no real long run experience yet this year but there were 4 of us doing about 6 minute pace and it felt all right so I stuck with it.  The hills started about mile 10 so I knew the pain would be starting soon.  I came through the13 mile point right at 1:18 so still sticking to 6 minute pace.  I felt a bit intimidated at this pace since I knew I had 13 still to go so I backed off a bit to around a 6:13 pace.  The scenery was so cool honestly I lost track of the miles a few times, after all I'm used to running in the snow right now.  After mile 20 the hills begun again and i think I lost about another 10 seconds a mile from there to the finish.  I was real happy with the time and how good I felt the whole race.  I did beat the masters course record by 4 minutes and then bumped into the guy in front of me in the corral and he was a masters runner from Boulder that kept that 6 minute pace we started with almost to mile 22!  I'd have never caught him, even if I'd have known he was a master.  It really turned out to be a masters race with 6 of the top ten guys being over 40!  Not particularly fast but well worth it.

All in all a fun run.  I took out of this one that I believe the fast Tempo runs medium distance at 30 sec per mile faster than marathon pace can really help.  For the first time in a marathon for me the pace felt slow, it's just the distance that sucked..

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3 miles in the snow in Milwaukee really slow..

1 mile swim at the gym

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3 miles easy in Milwaukee before the flight.

An hour of lifting weights at the gym followed by a mile swim.  Nice night and good to not be running for a week!

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3 mile pool run

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12 miles on the bike

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3 mile easy

 

1 mile swim

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Race: Striders 10K (6.2 Miles) 37:02:00, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 1
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Fun race!  Hilly as usual.  I was hoping to just run it without dying after the marathon Sunday and it felt pretty good.  I don't think I would have run it any faster. 

Nice going down the hills, the finish was no fun at all!

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6 miles @ 7 pace in Nibley

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6 easy in Logan

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3 miles in the morning in Minneapolis.  Cold and snowy!

 

5 miles late afternoon in Phoenix.  Warm and sunny!

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5 miles easy in Kingman, AZ

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6 miles in Las Vegas

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12 freezing miles in Minneapolis.  Finally get to start training again!

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9 miles easy in Denver

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After a long day of work I talked the Hotel driver into taking me out in the Las Vegas desert to run.  I'm sure he thought I was nuts, but it was awesome to run 12 miles back in a full moon middle of the night..

7:03 average pace

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