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Herriman half marathon

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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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Beach run and another surf morning. Cyclone Helen has actually made waves at Cancun and Mike and I are the only guys surfing some great waves for the few days we are here. Just wish I had more time for a run.

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Snow shoe along Rattlesnake trail, Wellsvilles. I'm counting that as a run since I'm not getting a lot of real runs in lately.

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Day off.  Good hike up Dry Canyon but just for fun and dragging a kayak so I can't count it as a run.

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Wellsville Ridge XC ski today.  Probably last day of the year for it, pretty wet snow.  I registered a running club up here in Logan with USATF looking to get some others interested in running together more.  We have a small little group and get a few good trail runs in here and there, but it would be nice to get some people to push each other.  Anyhow, I registered four Boston Marathon Teams and with the help of some FRB folks we have some pretty good teams for this race.

 

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Quick run at 5:52 pace.

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Intervals. Run up Blacksmith Fork Canyon, kayak down, repeat.

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Off day with the kids.

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Medium distance run average 6:53 pace.  Today I got my scoped again since it's been almost a year since the ACL.  The doc says it's perfect and can't believe the change.  What's this mean?  A year ago with a torn ACL, the medical solution was surgery.  Knee surgery is pretty controversial though, even for severe tears.  Deciding not to do it was tough and meant a big change in running and some frustrating time doing things that I'd rather spend time running.  But it worked.  I also think the year has shown me that as you get older you cannot just run to stay fit.  You have to pay attention to strength training and keep your body balanced.  Stretching is important no matter what the latest studies show.

Good day.

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Nice sunny run just under six pace.

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Boston dress rehearsal. 22 mile long run in perfect conditions, 7:03 average pace. Felt great today!

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18 hour work day

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Race: Herriman half marathon (13.11 Miles) 01:29:59, Place overall: 4
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I had a Salt Lake overnight Friday for work and I wanted a medium distance run at 7 min pace so I agreed to run as a pacer for the 1:30 time for American Flyers.  This was the first time ever running as a pacer for me, I've hung out with the group before, and I enjoyed it.  Their pace strategy is computer generated and takes into account uphills and downs.  Basically the idea is that an average runner is going to take the hit on an uphill and speed up a little on the down.  It was a bit harder for me this morning because you tend to train this out of yourself as you get faster.  But it was awesome running a race relaxed and at a pace backed off from usual.  With all the hills on this course there were some 6:35s and a few over 7, and these paces are on a pace band that you wear.  With a smaller race like this it's possible nobody will run a 1:30 so I didn't know how it would go.  About three of us held in a group through mile 6.  Walter was just itching to bust out a fast race and I kept telling him to run the 1:30 pace and take off for 3 good miles at the end.  It's too close to Boston.  The lead woman ran with me until about 8 and then faded at the hills.  At mile 11 the guy in third place was walking up the big hill but fell in again immediately behind me.  We crossed the finish just a second under time. 

Ran an easy 5 tonight in the warm sun in Phoenix.

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Day off, kids, church, family.

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Recovery run.

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Trail run Providence Canyon

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Kayaked Logan River lower section three times, running back up or down in between. Amazing morning.

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ice run in Denver before class. Four days ago I was awarded promotion to Captain with my airline. Pilots work their life basically to get to this point. Great news except testing for it is today through next Friday. Right through Boston Monday. I worked every angle on delay. No luck. Finally, today meeting with program directors they told me I could accept on this date or not upgrade. So I'll miss Boston. Last time an airline told me a similar thing I walked out and picked up a job with Frontier. It was the best choice I made career wise, so I'm thinking this through a lot today. It's not that it's a race, it's that when you start making decisions based on priorities, you generally start a path that governs what your life is. I don't like a job that becomes your life. Thats why I fly in the first place.

Pretty depressing day.

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Off day. One of the best Easter days I can remember. The kids and I cooked an Easter breakfast, went to church, took the afternoon for fishing, and the rest of the day at the family party.

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I spent an awesome Sunday with the kids until about 10pm which meant I had to drive to Denver through the night since I missed the last flight. I made it to school 30 minutes before class started and spent most of the class morning following Boston through the text apps in between taking tests. Super busy day. Headed out for a run about 7pm but the tank was empty and I made it a short effort.

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Nice run in Denver after 10 hours of class. I don't know how I'd survive this stuff without being able to work it all out on a run.

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Completely exhausted from a day of classes. Did a very pathetic 10 miles. I can't take the hotel, class, hotel, thing anymore. Tonight I'm heading up to camp for the night in the Rockies. I just have to get back to class by 8am...

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Medium distance run after another day in class. Good run!

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Long nice run.

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After sim run in Denver

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Ran the north ridge of the Wellsvilles.  4,500 foot gain

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Very steep run up the Wellsville mountains with Mandi and Walter.  Took us over two hours to do this 4,000 foot climb and back down.

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